Sheriff advises people to ‘stay vigilant, lock your house’ after Grant Hardin, convicted of murder and rape, escaped

As law officers search Arkansas’ rugged Ozark mountains for a former police chief and convicted killer who escaped prison this weekend, the sister of one of his victims is on edge.

Grant Hardin, the former police chief in the small town of Gateway near the Arkansas-Missouri border, was serving lengthy sentences for murder and rape and became known as the “Devil in the Ozarks”.