STONE COUNTY, Ark. (AP) -A former police chief and convicted killer known as the “Devil in the Ozarks” was captured 1.5 miles (2.4 kilometers) northwest of the prison grounds by law enforcement official safter he escaped from a prison , triggering a massive manhunt in the mountains of northern Arkansas, authorities announced on Friday.

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

Hardin, the former police chief in the small town of Gateway near the Arkansas-Missouri border, was serving lengthy sentences for murder and rape . He was the subject of the TV documentary “Devil in the Ozarks.”

An elite and highly trained U.S. Border Patrol had joined the search in the Ozark Mountains for Hardin federal authoriti

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