Police are combing the Ozark Mountains in Arkansas after a prison guard cleared the way for the killer and rapist known as the “Devil in the Ozarks” to walk out of jail while disguised as a law enforcement officer.
Fugitive Grant Hardin, 56, the former police chief of Gateway, has plunged the area into terror after he walked out of the North Central Unit prison, in Calico Rock, on Sunday while inconspicuously pushing a cart full of utility materials.
AP
As the manhunt enters its third day, the Arkansas Department of Corrections is also investigating the “lapse” in security that allowed Hardin to be let out through the gate by a prison officer without any verification.
Prison officials took about 30 minutes to notice that Hardin had escaped.
Hardin was the subject of the TV documentary “Devil in the Ozarks,” which aired on Max in 2023.
With Post wires
