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Bloody Angola: A Podcast by Jim Chapman

50 Shades of Evil: Arkansas

Bloody Angola: A Podcast by Jim Chapman

Envision Podcast Productions

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.8 • 704 Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2026

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

“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!

“50 Shades of Evil” is a podcast series brought to you by “Bloody Angola Podcast”.

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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Transcript

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0:00.0

I walk a straight line

0:17.3

shackled chain

0:20.6

oh glarsome gertie is calling my name there is no mercy in this penitentiary

0:33.6

just asked the hill string guy

0:38.2

Rangle the three

0:40.7

I'm here for life

0:44.7

I'm here to die

0:47.8

Inside these walls

0:51.8

Inside the wide And when the wolf cry these walls inside the wire.

0:56.0

And when the world cries, I know it's over.

1:04.1

Oh, bloody Angola.

1:14.9

Oh, bloody angola. Oh, bloody angola.

1:33.6

Hey. Hey, welcome back to Bloody Angola. I'm going to continue the 50 Shades of Evil series today.

1:39.5

And I'm going to be taking you to Arkansas to tell you the story of a man who in February of 2017 was arrested for murder.

1:49.4

Now, that in turn also led to a separate conviction for rape, where a former police officer would be

1:57.8

forever known as the devil in the Ozarks. His real name is Grant Hardin,

2:04.2

and today I'm discussing his crime, his conviction, and an escape years later that would put the

2:12.1

entire country in fear. So let's get into it. And first we're going to go to Bentonville, Arkansas, where Grant Hardin was

2:20.9

born in 1969. In Bentonville, of course, that may sound familiar to you. It is the home of Walmart. It was where

2:30.6

Walmart was born and bred. Walmart actually brought a lot of industry to that area of

2:38.3

Arkansas. Very well known now, but in those days, a very sleepy town, the late 1960s. So Grant never really

2:48.1

leaves the Bentonville area. He graduates high school and he's a very

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