Grant Hardin, a former police chief and convicted killer known as the “Devil in the Ozarks,” was caught Friday afternoon, nearly two weeks after escaping from an Arkansas Prison, authorities said.

“ Grant Hardin has been recaptured and was taken into custody shortly after 3 p.m. on Friday,” the Arkansas Department of Corrections said in a news release.

The 56-year-old former chief of Gateway, a small town near the Arkansas-Missouri border, was serving lengthy sentences for murder and rape when he escaped from North Central Unit in Calico Rock on May 25.

After he was taken back into custody, Hardin was transported to the North Central Unit for fingerprinting and a medical evaluation, then transferred to the Varner SuperMax facility in Gould, some 200 miles southeast of Calico Rock,

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