Former Police Chief, Serving Murder and Rape Sentences, Escapes From Arkansas Prison

Former Police Chief, Serving Murder and Rape Sentences, Escapes From Arkansas Prison
Grant Hardin. Arkansas Department of Corrections Communications Department via AP
The Associated Press
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As law officers search Arkansas’ rugged Ozark Mountains for a former police chief and convicted killer who escaped prison this weekend by impersonating a guard and walking out through a gate a guard opened for him, the sister of one of his victims is on edge.

Grant Hardin, the former police chief in the small town of Gateway near the Arkansas-Missouri border, was serving lengthy sentences for murder and rape and became known as the “Devil in the Ozarks.”