Usually, if you exit for a hike, you’re principally in your guard in opposition to wildlife and the weather. However final weekend, something truly terrifying occurred to Clinton and Cristen Brink, who have been mountain climbing in Arkansas—a madman stabbed them to demise in entrance of their two daughters. The person chargeable for the double murder in Satan’s Den State Park has now been arrested for the crime. Disturbingly, he was a faculty trainer.
“Particular Brokers with the Arkansas State Police (ASP) have arrested James Andrew McGann, 28, of Springdale, in connection to a double murder that occurred on Saturday, July 26, 2025, at Satan’s Den State Park,” wrote the Washington County Sheriff’s Office in a Fb put up saying the arrest. “McGann was taken into custody at 4:57 p.m. on Wednesday, July 30, 2025, at a enterprise in Springdale. He was charged with two counts of Capital Homicide.”
Stories counsel Clinton and Cristen Brink died defending their two daughters, 7 and 9, who escaped McGann. The women found another hiker on the path, who ended up calling for assist.
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The New York Post reports that McGann was a licensed trainer with a troubled previous who was attributable to begin educating at a brand new faculty subsequent week. Due to law-enforcement companies, this gained’t occur. ASP Col. Mike Hagar expressed his reduction that his company was capable of “take a monster off the streets.”
See the Washington County Sheriff’s Workplace’s Fb put up in regards to the arrest of the double-homicide suspect:
This case remains to be creating and particulars might change.
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