(CNN) — Soon after the convicted murderer and rapist known as the “Devil in the Ozarks” was recaptured after evading police for more than 10 days in the rocky terrain and dense vegetation of rural northwest Arkansas, officials say they interviewed him at least five times about how he pulled off the prison break.

Grant Hardin, a one-time Arkansas police chief and the subject of the 2023 HBO Max documentary series “Devil in the Ozarks,” was serving a 30-year sentence for murder and two 25-year sentences for two counts of rape when he began the six-month process of planning and preparing to break out, he allegedly told Arkansas Division of Corrections Director Dexter Payne.

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Hardin ultimately walked out of the Calico Rock priso

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