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Authorities across Arkansas and surrounding states are intensifying their search for a convicted murderer and rapist who escaped from prison over the weekend. Grant Hardin, the former police chief of Gateway, Arkansas—infamously dubbed the “Devil in the Ozarks”—is now the subject of a multi-agency manhunt after fleeing custody on Sunday by disguising himself as a law enforcement officer.
Hardin, 56, was serving a multi-decade sentence for the 2017 murder of James Appleton, a local acquaintance whom Hardin shot execution-style before attempting to conceal the body. During the investigation, authorities also uncovered evidence linking Hardin to. . .
