The state’s School Resource Officer of the Year was named during the two-day Safe School and Communities Conference taking ...

From Aug. 6, 1990, to May 22, 1991, Hardin was employed at the Fayetteville Police Department. In his termination letter, then-Chief Richard Watson said Hardin's efforts "fall short of the average ...

Though Hardin was thought to have left Arkansas, investigators now believe he never got very far from the prison.

Arkansas authorities have released a photo rendering of a convicted murderer and former police chief known as the “Devil in the Ozarks” who escaped from prison.