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The man accused of being killed A married couple, while they were on a hiking trip with their children in Arkansas on July 26, will be examined in other murders after a possible participation.
Arkansa’s State Police Countries Andrew James McGann killed Cristen Amanda Brink (41) and Clinton David Brink (43), while the couple changed his children at Devil’s State Park in Washington County, Arkansas. McGann is due to court on Thursday morning in order to be charged with capital murder.
Col. Mike Hagar, police director of Arkansa’s state, said McGann stood the murders and added that they were stabbed in a “completely random event”.
“We have no reason to assume that there was a known connection between our suspect and our victims,” said Hagar. “During an interview with investigators, the suspect admitted to having committed the murders. We also carried out a search command in his residence and reclaimed objects that matched the crime.”
Clinton and Cristen Brink were murdered on July 26, 2025 at Devil’s State Park. (Gofundme)
Hagar said DNA was used to combine McGann with the couple’s death.
McGann, who held several school teachers in the southeast for several years, is examined even after a possible participation in the murders of people in Vermont and Wisconsin.
A detective from the Sheriff County in Wisconsin Sheriff said to Fox News Digital that his agency had received tips on a “possible connection” between the incident of July 26 and a separate October 14, 2020, which was invented in Devil’s Lake State Park, where John Craig Schmutzer was stabbed while hiking on the Grotto Trail.
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John Craig Schmutzer was killed in 2020. (Sheriff’s Office of the Sauk County)
The detective said the police tries to determine whether there is a connection between McGann and the death of jewelry.
“We have many tips, both of the citizens in Arkansas and Wisconsin, about the murder of the devil and the possible connection to our murder from October 2020,” Det. Sgt. Drew Bulin told Fox News Digital. “We have contact with the investigators of Arkansas and will work to determine whether the similarities are a coincidence or whether there is a little more.”
Accordingly ABC 7 messagesMcGann grew up in the Garfield Ridge district of Chicago, which is about three hours from Devil’s Lake State Park.
The Sheriff’s office of the Sauk County said that jewelry murderer was about 6 feet and “slim to average building”. Prison records from Washington County, Arkansas, indicate that McGann is 6 feet big.
In a press release on August 7, the Vermont State Police said that Detectives turned the law enforcement authorities in Arkansas to discuss the death of award winners Fleming, whose body was found on the Delaware and Hudson Rail Trail in Castleton.
“After the Vermont State Police invented a couple’s latest double murder on a hiking trail in Arkansas and the arrest of a suspect, VSP detectives undertook the routine step to contact their colleagues in Arkansas to discuss the case,” wrote the Vermont State Police. “In this case, there is no connection between the suspect and the winner Fleming Murder or in general.”
Honoree Fleming, biologist and former Dean of Education at the Vermont State University Castleton Campus, sits on your computer on an understate family photo. She was shot on a hiking trail near the school on October 5 and asks the police for help in finding a suspect. (Dean Powers)
Shane Wilkinson, a defense lawyer and former deputy prosecutor of Benton County, Arkansas, told Fox News Digital that law enforcement agencies with unresolved murder murders will probably take a look at McGann.
“I think everyone who has an unsolved murder of hiking path will probably take note of it,” said Wilkinson.
Former murder Det. Ted Williams told Fox News Digital McGann’s alleged murder “has raised many red flags across the country”.
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Special agents of the Arkansas State Police arrested the 28 -year -old James Andrew McGann from Springdale on July 26, 2025, double murder at Devil’s State Park. (Arkansa’s State Police; internment camp Washington County)
“I Not only would have to believe that the law enforcement authorities in Wisconsin and Vermont are interested in McGann. But they were also interested in this country because he stabbed this couple to death, “said Williams.
Michael Ruiz von Fox News Digital contributed to this report.