Police Interrogation of RECENT ESCAPED From Prison Chief Of Police Grant Hardin For Rape and Murder On October 2017, Hardin, then 50 years old, pleaded guilty to first-degree murder, admitting that he had killed James Appleton. Appleton pulled into a parking lot on Gann Ridge Road in Gateway, Arkansas on February 23, 2017, to talk with his coworker and brother-in-law on his cell phone. A passerby saw the pickup and a blue Chevrolet Malibu parked behind it. The driver of the Malibu waved him around, the passerby told police, and when he was a few hundred yards away, he heard...