“Grant Hardin” also known as the “Devil In The Ozarks” was a former police chief who in 2017 was convicted in the murder of a political rival in a small town in Arkansas. Upon his arrest and submission of Hardin’s DNA to CODIS, he was discovered to have been the assailant in a brutal SA of a teacher in her classroom a decade prior to his murder conviction. The aptly named “Devil in the Ozarks” was finally behind bars but a dramatic escape and subsequent manhunt in 2025 would put the entire state of Arkansas once again in fear and on alert!

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Chapters
01:39 A Suprising Start
18:50 The Murder of James Appleton
25:10 The Interrogation 
31:04 Arrest and Charges Filed
35:01 The Shocking DNA Match
41:43 The Escape Plan 
42:48 Escape and Consequences
43:13 The Devil in the Ozarks Pays the Price

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