Authorities say a bloodhound picked up Grant Hardin’s scent shortly after prison guards learned that he’d slipped past a gate.

The FBI is offering a reward of up to $10,000 for information leading to the arrest of a convicted murderer and rapist who escaped from an Arkansas prison on Sunday.

The FBI is offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the fugitive known as "The Devil in the Ozarks," Grant Hardin.

Grant Hardin, 56, the former police chief in the small town of Gateway near the Arkansas-Missouri border, was serving lengthy sentences for murder and rape. He was the subject of the TV documentary “Devil in the Ozarks.

Convicted murderer Grant Hardin escaped from a Calico Rock, Arkansas, prison on May 25, 2025. Hardin was serving time for the 2017 murder of James Appleton and the 1997 rape of a teacher.

Five days after convicted murderer and rapist Grant Hardin escaped a Calico Rock prison, the search remains centered on north Arkansas.