US EditionSharpie markers and a handmade badge: How officials say the ‘Devil in the Ozarks’ planned a prison escape over several months
Grant Hardin planned his escape for six months using a homemade law enforcement costume and evaded capture for over 10 days, exploiting procedural lapses at the prison, officials said.
- Grant Hardin, a convicted murderer serving an 80-year sentence, escaped Calico Rock prison on May 25 by walking out in a makeshift law enforcement uniform.
- Hardin spent about half a year preparing for his escape, using items he gathered from the prison kitchen to alter his clothing with black markers and creating a badge from a soup can lid.
- He evaded capture for about two weeks in difficult terrain by eating berries, bird eggs, ants, drinking creek and distilled water, and hiding from K-9 teams.
- A state Department of Corrections report cited multiple procedural issues and blind spots, prompting terminations and discipline but found no evidence of staff aid in his escape.
- Hardin was captured under two miles from the prison on June 6 and transferred to a maximum-security facility in Varner, Arkansas, while facing trial for escape in November.
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Sharpie markers and a handmade badge: How officials say the ‘Devil in the Ozarks’ planned a prison escape over several months
Soon after the convicted murderer and rapist known as the “Devil in the Ozarks” was recaptured after evading police for more than 10 days in the rocky terrain and dense vegetation of rural northwest Arkansas, officials say they interviewed him at least five times about how he pulled off the prison break.
'Devil of the Ozarks' misclassified before escape, now at Varner SuperMax
CALICO ROCK, Ark. — More details have been released regarding the escape and capture of Grant Hardin from the Calico Rock unit in May. State corrections officials said Hardin, the so-called “Devil of the Ozarks” should not have been held at the North Central Unit when he made his escape. The department said he was […] The post ‘Devil of the Ozarks’ misclassified before escape, now at Varner SuperMax appeared first on Stuttgart Daily Leader.
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