As law officers search Arkansas’ rugged Ozark Mountains for a former police chief and convicted killer who escaped prison ...

Former Gateway Police Chief Grant Hardin escaped from prison in Calico Rock, Arkansas on Sunday afternoon. Hardin was serving a 30-year sentence for murder and an additional sentence for rape. Sign up ...

Grant Hardin "should never have had a chance to escape. He’s killed somebody and he’s raped somebody," one resident said.

Hardin was working in the Northwest Arkansas Corrections Center in Fayetteville from November 2017 until his arrest in February 2018 for murder.