A former police chief and convicted killer known as the “Devil in the Ozarks” was captured by law enforcement 1.5 miles northwest of the prison he escaped from following massive, nearly 2-weeks-long manhunt in the mountains of northern Arkansas, authorities announced Friday.

Grant Hardin’s identity was confirmed through fingerprinting, the Izard County Sheriff’s Office said in a Facebook post.

Hardin, a former police chief in the small town of Gateway near the Arkansas-Missouri border, was serving lengthy sentences for murder and rape. Eventually, his notoriety led to a TV documentary, “Devil in the Ozarks.”

Hardin was held at the Calico Rock prison since 2017 after pleading guilty to first-degree murder in a shooting. To escape, he impersonated a corrections officer “in dress and manne

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