Grant Hardin had gained notoriety as the subject of the 2023 documentary “Devil in the Ozarks’’ about his 1997 rape of a school teacher and 2017 murder of a water department worker.

Grant Hardin, a convicted killer and ex-police chief known as the “Devil in the Ozarks," was captured in Arkansas after escaping prison nearly two weeks ago.

Authorities say an elite and highly trained U.S. Border Patrol team has joined the search in the Ozark Mountains for Grant Hardin, an inmate known as the “Devil in the Ozarks.” He escaped from