CALICO ROCK, Ark. — There are plenty of hideouts in the rugged terrain of the Ozark Mountains, from abandoned cabins to campsites in the vast forests where searchers are hunting for an ex-lawman known as the “Devil in the Ozarks.”
Fugitive Grant Hardin escaped the North Central Unit at Calico Rock on Sunday.
Local, state, and federal law enforcement have continued to scour the region around the prison throughout the search.
The area around the prison is “one of the most cave-dense regions of the state,” said Matt Covington, a University of Arkansas geology professor who studies caves.
Hardin, the former police chief in the small town of Gateway near the Arkansas-Missouri border, was serving a lengthy sentence for murder and rape. He was the subject of the TV documentary “Devil in the Ozarks.”
He escaped Sunday from the North Central Unit — a medium-security prison also known as the Calico Rock prison — by wearing an outfit designed to look like a law enforcement uniform. A prison officer opened a secure gate, allowing him to leave the facility. Authorities say that someone should have checked Hardin’s identity before he was allowed to leave the facility, describing the lack of verification as a “lapse” that is being investigated.
It took authorities approximately 30 minutes to notice Hardin had escaped.
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