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   Leroy N. Soetoro to All   
   Devil's Den victim mom was slaughtered a   
   09 Aug 25 19:36:15   
   
   XPost: alt.fan.states.arkansas, talk.politics.guns, sac.politics   
   XPost: alt.politics.republicans, rec.outdoors.national-parks   
   From: leroysoetoro@americans-first.com   
      
   https://nypost.com/2025/07/31/us-news/devils-den-victim-mom-was-   
   slaughtered-after-saving-daughters-and-then-running-back-to-help-husband-   
   cops/   
      
   The heroic Arkansas mother knifed to death in a Devil’s Den State Park   
   rushed her daughters to safety while her husband fended off their crazed   
   assailant — and was murdered when she went back to help her spouse, police   
   revealed Thursday.   
      
   Cristen Amanda Brink, 41, fled with her kids when the family was ambushed   
   by a knifeman on a remote wilderness trail Saturday, with her 43-year-old   
   husband, Clinton David Brink, grappling with the attacker so they could   
   get away.   
      
   Cristen got the kids to a safe place — then ran back into danger to help   
   her husband, Arkansas prosecutors and police revealed at a press   
   conference Thursday.   
      
   But she never returned to collect the terrified girls.   
      
   By the time the dust settled, she and her husband were dead, and their   
   killer was in the wind.   
      
   After a four-day manhunt — fueled largely by the courageous girls’ vivid   
   description of the attacker — suspect Andrew James McGann, 28, was finally   
   arrested Wednesday, while he was getting his hair cut at a barbershop in   
   Springdale.   
      
   Police say he confessed to the crime and that his DNA matched blood found   
   at the scene — but that he is expected to plead not guilty.   
      
   No motive in the grisly attack has been revealed, but investigators said   
   Thursday there was “no indication to suggest that the girls were his   
   target.”   
      
   But McGann — a teacher with certifications to teach elementary and middle   
   school in three states — previously faced allegations of inappropriate   
   behavior at a Texas school where he taught in 2023.   
      
   An investigation found no conclusive evidence, but McGann resigned soon   
   afterward.   
      
   Despite those allegations, McGann was due to start teaching again in   
   Arkansas’ Springdale Public Schools next week.   
      
   McGann has no criminal record as an adult, prosecutors said, no known   
   history of mental illness, and no connection of any kind to the victims.   
      
   “It appears to be a completely random event,” prosecutors said at the   
   press conference.   
      
   He also made no apparent attempt to conceal his movements, according to   
   investigators, explaining he appears to have gotten a haircut after the   
   killings — but it wasn’t an attempt to conceal his identity.   
      
   “You can chalk that up to school starts next week,” investigators said.   
      
   They added that his handling of the crime was “very sloppy” — so sloppy   
   that investigators were able to locate and arrest him within an hour of   
   identifying him as the suspect.   
      
   Prosecutors said they would use the “full weight” of their office to bring   
   justice to the Brinks, and that they would not waive the death penalty if   
   McGann is found guilty of the murders.   
      
   The Brinks’ daughters — including a third girl who was not at the park   
   with them during the attack — are in the care of family members.   
      
   They had just moved to Arkansas from South Dakota, and Clinton was   
   planning to start a new job as a milk delivery driver soon.   
      
      
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