Correctional officials said that the former police chief who was convicted of rape and murder had escaped from prison as he was serving a 30 -year prison sentence on Sunday.
Grant Hardin was in the central northern unit, a prison located in Caliko Rock, Arkansas, since 2017. He fled around 3:40 pm, The Department of Corpses in Arkansas He said in a social media post.
“Anyone with information about the inmate of the inmate Hardin should contact local law immediately,” I read the post.
according to CBS Affiliate KFSM-TVThe Stone Sharif County Office said Hardin was seen leaving prison in Arkansas’s reform administration uniforms.
The Department of Corpses in Arkansas
Hardin was the former police chief Gate, ArkansasA small town with a few hundred residents.
Hardin admitted that he was guilty in October 2017 with his first -class killing in the death of James Appleon, 59. According to a written statement presented in the case, Appleton worked in the Gateway Water Department and was speaking to his son -in -law, which was then the mayway Andrew Tillman, when he was shot in his head on February 23, 2017, near Garfield. Police found Appleon’s body in a car.
Hardin is also serving 50 years in prison for raping an elementary school teacher in 1997 in Rogers, North Vetville.
KFSM mentioned in 2019 In 2003, this police used DNA samples from the victim’s clothes to apply for a “John Doe” order because the statute of limitations was close to expiration. The investigators eventually got a match after Hardin’s prison to kill Appleon.
