The instructor who allegedly admitted to fatally stabbing two hikers at Devil’s Den State Park in Arkansas last month entered a not guilty plea to murder charges on Thursday, according to authorities.
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During a quick hearing Thursday morning before a state judge at the Washington County jail, Andrew James McGann entered the plea. The next hearing for McGann was set for November 14 by Circuit Judge Joanna Taylor. They’re holding him without a bond.
In connection with the July 26 murders of Clinton David Brink, 43, and Cristen Amanda Brink, 41, McGann has been charged with two counts of capital murder. The attack did not damage the two or their daughters, who were hiking with them at the ages of seven and nine.
A motivation for the attack at Devil’s Den, a 2,500-acre state park located roughly 140 miles northwest of Little Rock, has not been made public by authorities.
On July 30, McGann was taken into custody at a barbershop in Springdale, which is roughly thirty miles north of the park.
McGann, who had previously worked in Texas and Oklahoma, had not yet begun his new position at Springdale Public Schools. According to the authorities, he had no past criminal history.
According to State Police, authorities matched McGann’s DNA to blood recovered from the crime site, and he confessed to the murders soon after his arrest.
The fact that McGann’s hearing took place on Thursday rather than Monday has been updated in this item.
