A former police chief who was convicted of rape and murder escaped from the prison where he was serving a 30-year sentence on Sunday, correction officials said.
Grant Hardin had been at North Central Unit, a prison located in Calico Rock, Arkansas, since 2017.
He escaped around 3:40 p.m., the Arkansas Department of Corrections said in a social media post.
According to CBS affiliate KFSM-TV, the Stone County Sheriff's Office said Hardin was seen leaving the prison in an Arkansas Department of Corrections uniform.
Hardin was the former police chief for the city of Gateway, Arkansas, a small town with just a few hundred residents.
Hardin is also serving 50 years in prison for the 1997 rape of an elementary school teacher in Rogers, north of Fayetteville.
Hardin pleaded guilty to two counts of rape and was given 25 years for each count, KFSM reported. »