362: From Police Chief To Prison Escapee: The Chilling Crimes of Grant Hardin
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🗓️ 11 September 2025
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Intro 0:00
Gateway, Arkansas... 3:21
Amy's Horrifying Assault 5:03
Searching for the Culprit 9:03
Coming up Dry 11:33
Enter Grant Hardin 20:12
The First of Many Jobs 23:03
A Short Fuse 28:51
James is Murdered 37:03
Lying Low 39:43
A Bizarre Interrogation 41:18
Off to Prison 47:59
A "Daring" Escape 52:37
Caught... Again 58:14
Final Thoughts & Outro 1:03:14
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, what is up, everybody? |
| 0:17.5 | And welcome back to Mile Heart Podcast, episode 361. |
| 0:22.2 | And boy, do we have a case for you guys today. |
| 0:25.3 | Now, this got on our radar a couple months ago when this... |
| 0:29.9 | Some crazy headlines. |
| 0:31.6 | Yeah, some crazy headlines. |
| 0:32.9 | Because this absolute whack job, hate him. |
| 0:36.2 | The devil of the Ozarks,arks grant hardin actually escaped from prison |
| 0:41.0 | yeah well the headline was former police chief escapes from prison yeah and i was like what |
| 0:47.1 | the hell is going on here yeah that's probably what we will title this episode somewhere around |
| 0:52.6 | that and then it was like there's exactly it was like, there's so much more. |
| 0:56.2 | Yeah, well, there's so much more to this crazy man known as Grant Hardin than just escaping from prison. |
| 1:05.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:05.4 | This guy's was in law enforcement for many years, but behind the scenes, |
| 1:13.2 | doing some heinous crimes and getting away with it |
| 1:16.8 | and terrorizing his little town he lived in, |
| 1:20.8 | Gateway, Arkansas, |
| 1:22.7 | you know, |
| 1:24.2 | brought on to protect and serve |
| 1:25.9 | and ended up terrorizing the town. Yeah, yeah. Uh, so just a complete menace to society. Got like a bully complex. I'm curious, do you guys all think that it's possible he committed way more crimes? Totally. 100%. I think he definitely, there's no way. Only the two that we're going to talk about today. |
| 1:46.0 | I think he just knew how to get away with it. |
| 1:47.7 | Well, it's the scariest kind of criminal. |
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