Grant Hardin in cold blood has surpassed the best law in America for more than two weeks, and declined through cracks while entire societies recognized their breath – the police admitted that they did not know where he was
One step forward and created in the shadows of the mountains that he once ruled, chasing the deadly policeman known as the “Satan Ozarks” is a terrifying scene of failure and fear.
Grant Hardin in cold blood has surpassed the best law in America for more than two weeks, as it slipped across cracks while the entire societies were breathing. This week, the police admitted that they had no idea about the place where Satan walks, and the Federal Investigation Office is not closer to his drag into hell. Since the former police chief escaped on May 25 from the Caliko Rock Prison, no one sleeps easily under the mountains that he headed once as president of the small Arkansas community.
But after the convicted and rapist killer escaped through the front gate from prison where he was reserved since 2017, he wore, among everything, law enforcement, thousands now live in fear after the imprisonment of prisons. With a mark tomorrow's 13 -day mark since Hardin disappeared, the application of the American law, which has named the previous suspicion as wanted in the FBI, is a $ 25,000 bonus (18,470 pounds) to capture it, it could not be ignorant of what could be.
“He knows every deer and hunting hunting in the area,” said Jesse Rai, a resident of Backter Province. “He does not need GPS or cell towers. It only needs time.”
The time is exactly what the search teams gave. That is why the locals are shaken. And angry. “I got girls,” said Mark Stevens, a mechanic from Melbourne. “Do you think that I sleep easily, knowing that B ****** may be a two miles away from my backyard?”
Prison heads have left embarrassing. Hardin did not sneak, climb, or fight on his way out of his cell. He simply walked. Ghost in daylight. Rand Cham, the spokesperson for the Ministry of Corpses in Arkansas, described that Hardin's clothes are not a standard prisoner or a conceptual uniform.
“There is nothing in the prison that looks like that, and this is one of the challenges we face to find out what it was and how he was able to get or manufacture it,” he said. Champion added that the decision to deliver Hardin in an intermediate security facility weighs “the needs of various facilities and prisoners” and “assessments” in his crimes.
By the time anyone noticed that Harden had a 30 -minute start in the thick wilderness that provokes him. Perhaps this is all he needs, as the police now believe that it may have ended a long time ago from Arkansas and hides in another state.
Some believe that the 56 -year -old is on his way to Mexico. But those who live in Arkansas, an area that knows Hardin like the back of his hand, is the fear that he is still among them. “This is difficult terrain,” said Donathan, a local resident who lives on the road from prison. “Bluffs, Beauties, and Coffins, easy to hide here. But this is different from the last escape.”
He added: “We had one before; they were arrested on that night. But this man has a history of violence. This makes me tense. I have grandparents. We are country people, we have weapons, and they have been loaded.”
Manhunt, which began across North Arkansas and South Missouri, is now in the country. Helicopters sweep thick pine forests. Dogs unit combed deer tracks and river squares. FBI agents knock on the doors in forgotten satellites. But starting today, there was no confirmed vision of Satan. Just fear. And silence.
Hardin's story was already a betrayal story. Now, it has become a legend. He was once wearing a badge in the same societies that now live in fear of his return, as he was working in the departments in Centon, Yorca Springs, and a small gate city, where he held the position of police chief. He was known to be quiet, preserved and reliable.
But behind the emblem, he was building a second life, violence and manipulation. In 1997, a teacher was raped at her home. The case has not been resolved for nearly 20 years. Then, in 2017, James Appleon, a friend and former colleague.
Hardin attracted him to a distant position and executed it with a gun explosion on the head. The DNA, which was recovered during this police investigation, has been linked again to rape decades ago. He acknowledged that he is guilty of both crimes and was sentenced to 80 years in prison. Now, just six years behind bars, he returned to the bulk.
The former lawyer for the Benton County Nathan Smith, who helped put Hardin in prison, said the crimes were “shock.” “At any time you have a former law enforcement officer, who is accused, condemned and committed these crimes, and I think it shocks everyone,” he said. “Police agencies and law enforcement agencies do not differ from anyone else. They are inhabited by humans. There will be some bad apples, but it was the worst imagined.”
At 2.55 pm on Sunday, he fled, Hardin, who was appointed to the duty of the kitchen, was seen leaving the central northern unit in Caliko Rock, wearing what officials described as “unauthorized costume.” He approached the safe exit and was allowed by examining the identity. By the time when the number of employees revealed that he was missing, he went.
“There is no excuse,” one of the officials said. “We have failed. Now we are working with every agency we can fix.” The former prison goalkeeper who spoke provided that his identity was not disclosed explicitly: “It is embarrassing. You do not let Life with his record come out. What someone did not take his guard – or what is worse, helped him.”
Calico Rock is more than just a point on the map. It is a city between the slopes of limestone and endless green fields, as the line between civilization and wild disappears quickly. Hardin grew up in the hills. He was hunting there. She was clouded there and disappeared there before.
In Hitchin 'Post Café off the 56th road, the conversation still focuses on Hardin. Each customer has a theory. Some say it is still soon. Others say he is heading abroad. But the tone is the same: it is dangerous, and it has not yet ended. The search grew wider after today. Law enforcement teams have tracked possible threads in Missouri. Doll dogs have been worked until fatigue, but the corridor has become cold for a long time.
Sherrill Telman, whose brother was killed by Hardin, said that she and other relatives are concerned about his escape because they witnessed the court procedures. “We were there in his trial when all of it fell, and we saw there, and he knew,” she said. She added that she was not surprised when I heard that Hardin had escaped. But the news suddenly added new pain and other family members after dealing with sadness from killing. She said, “He is just an evil man.” “It is not good for society.” Several cabinets were examined in Izard and Baxter provinces. In one case, one of the hunters reported the effects of new feet and food covers in the depths of the forest. Elsewhere, a woman said that the back balcony was emptied overnight.
Even those who knew him only as a policeman feel betrayal. “I allowed him to enter my home once,” said Frank Darbi, a resident of the gate, who called Harden to respond to a storming period. “I told my wife,” it looks sharp. Now I feel the disease just think about it. “
Every night, while the sun sets behind Ozark hills, law enforcement lamps flabed along the back road and registration paths. The forest is silent, but no one is comfortable. Local population keep dogs at night. Some take transformations with guns on their balconies. Gasoline stations indicate that ammunition sales have risen.
Brian Sixon, who ruled Hardin on charges of murder and rape, said his office had contacted the officers who investigated the killer police and families affected by Hardin's crimes, which was the axis of a 2023 documentary film, “Satan in Ozarks”.
“Conducting these contacts again with the people who moved to their lives to the best part of a decade now, and they should be the person who picks up the phone and reminds them of what happened to them is something that is greatly weighted on me.”
Currently, Satan is still one step forward. The authorities urge anyone who has knowledge of progress, but warns that Hardin is very dangerous and perhaps armed. His former colleagues said: “We will find him.” “But this is not a chase. It is a search process for a predator.”
