Clinton David Brink, 43 & Cristen Amanda Brink, 41 found on trail - Devil's Den State Park, AR- 26 July, 2025 #2 *Arrest*

[Arkay]

thank you for posting, I saw the part where they cuffed him before the press conference started. He is so much slighter than I expected, and looks so very young. ALmost like it does not match that photo from the backside we've looked at.

He seems like quite the shapeshifter, somehow.

IMO his appearance varies in every picture or video we’ve seen.

His face does not resemble the sketch, but that’s common in a first draft of a suspect described by someone who only saw him fleetingly.

His mug shot looks angry, in the eyes and mouth, but he has a full face.

Weirdly, he looks angry in the school staff directory while everyone else has on his or her teacher smile.

In the video from the salon, he looks slim and young.

And I don’t know what to make at all of the original picture, shot from behind. That body type IMO doesn’t adhere to what we see in the salon, but I think that’s because he was stuffed all around with the various bags etc. that he had as accoutrements. To what end, we still do not know.

 

[ADP2019]

He must have basic intelligence to get into college, graduate, take his licensing exams, and interview and all that. So what happened next?

I too am wondering. Did he have some sort of emotional break?
I of course think anyone who could do such a thing is broken in some way.
And how could you live with the images and sounds in your head afterwards?

So a few days later he is seen with visible blood still in his car?
What murderer drives the get away car around with visible blood in it, and goes to get a haircut?

What thinking went on before going to the park?
Very strange

IMO

If had an emotional break--when was it? Dude has looked like an angry monster for years. This was his school work ID--and no one questioned his fitness for duty?!

 

[Inthedetails]

He must have basic intelligence to get into college, graduate, take his licensing exams, and interview and all that. So what happened next?

I too am wondering. Did he have some sort of emotional break?
I of course think anyone who could do such a thing is broken in some way.
And how could you live with the images and sounds in your head afterwards?

So a few days later he is seen with visible blood still in his car?
What murderer drives the get away car around with visible blood in it, and goes to get a haircut?

What thinking went on before going to the park?
Very strange

IMO

Now I wonder if he job hopped because he wasn't a good teacher and the schools simply didn't like him??

Teachers need to be personable but he's not coming off that way. Maybe we'll learn more about that.

(Could be a creep as well, fwiw.)

jmo

 

[Inthedetails]

If had an emotional break--when was it? Dude has looked like an angry monster for years. This was his school work ID--and no one questioned his fitness for duty?!

I'm so curious how the interview went. He obviously can land jobs. Does he muster up a friendly personality in interviews?

jmo

 

[MollyHarps]

Nothing about this murder seems very well thought out does it.

Especially the aftermath of it - he was always going to get caught.

Living so close to the trail I wouldn’t be surprised if LE eventually after trailing through CCTV footage were able to track the car right back to the house

 

[caradana]

MOO: Monsters dwell among us. I see this guy as I see Kohberger. This killing was the thrill of his life and he’ll spend the rest of his mentally reliving it and enjoying it.

 

[Inthedetails]

So a few days later he is seen with visible blood still in his car?
What murderer drives the get away car around with visible blood in it, and goes to get a haircut?

Right. He's driving the same car with blood in it, yet won't sign his name at the front desk of the hair salon. Huh?

jmopinion

 

[airportwoman]

I’m sure it is not this simple, or we wouldn’t have a Registered Sex Offender website for each state showing where they all live.

IMO

They also have to get caught, and convicted, to get on the list.

 

[airportwoman]

I'm so curious how the interview went. He obviously can land jobs. Does he muster up a friendly personality in interviews?

jmo

Perhaps, or maybe he chose districts that were so short of teachers, they would hire anyone who was "qualified."

 

[Judy Sleuth]

Now I wonder if he job hopped because he wasn't a good teacher and the schools simply didn't like him??

Teachers need to be personable but he's not coming off that way. Maybe we'll learn more about that.

(Could be a creep as well, fwiw.)

jmo

In the Fox 5 San Diego article below, the parent of a past pupil describes him as NOT very personable:
"...Sierra Marcum said three years ago, her son was a student in McGann’s fourth grade classroom in Flower Mound, Texas, and described him as the “most standoff teacher she had ever met.” ..."Pretty cold. You could ask him a question and he would give you a one word response,” she said. “Overall just pretty disinterested in his students....”"

https://fox5sandiego.com/news/teacher-charged-with-killing-couple-who-were-hiking-in-arkansas-park-with-their-kids/

 

[CLGM]

I know this is so far down the list of things to wonder about, but can someone explain the curls in the 2nd mug shot? He went in the salon with straight hair…

I’m confused

When I first saw that I thought it was a spoof / AI generated - somebody poking fun that he was arrested while getting a haircut. Just a thought! IMO

 

[CLGM]

If had an emotional break--when was it? Dude has looked like an angry monster for years. This was his school work ID--and no one questioned his fitness for duty?!

I don’t think this is a real photo. imo moo

 

[Trino]

Not much more to sleuth. He did it. They only question is WHY?

 

[knla]

Not much more to sleuth. He did it. They only question is WHY?

I'm waiting for what the criminologists, profilers, and forensic psychologists have to say. The forensic psychologists usually say something horrible happened to the perpetrator in their childhood. The criminologists are more critical.

 

[SMK777]

I'm so curious how the interview went. He obviously can land jobs. Does he muster up a friendly personality in interviews?

jmo

He must have done something right in interviews which landed him teaching positions with young children. As far as some of his noncriminal ID photos, maybe he was viewed as just a scowling, serious young man?

 

[Dotta]

If had an emotional break--when was it? Dude has looked like an angry monster for years. This was his school work ID--and no one questioned his fitness for duty?!

The surname is altered.
And the first name.

 

[ADP2019]

The surname is altered.
And the first name.

Yes, he has gone by Drew while teaching in the past. Drew is short for Andrew.

 

[LibraStarr]

https://www.kark.com/crime/former-teammate-recounts-shock-after-arrest-of-suspect-in-devils-den-double-homicide/

Bailey remembers McGann — known to friends as “Andy” — as a quiet but friendly team leader and athlete.

“He led by example. He wasn’t the loudest guy in the room, but he kept things light,” Bailey said. “We carpooled to rugby practice together all the time, cracked jokes. He seemed like a totally normal guy.”

 

[ForensicPatterns]

I too am wondering. Did he have some sort of emotional break?

No he clearly didn't Why?

"The motive of a psychopathic killer will often involve either power and control or sadistic gratification. When faced with overwhelming evidence of their guilt, a psychopathic serial killer such as John Wayne Gacy (the “Killer Clown”) will often claim they lost control or were in a fit of rage when committing the act of murder. In reality, however, their killings are stone-cold, calculated, and completely premeditated."

"As a result of their arrogance and illusions of invulnerability, they are more likely than non-psychopaths to deny charges brought against them by authorities. According to the FBI, there is also evidence that psychopaths are able to influence the system to either receive reduced sentences or appeal their sentences to a higher court."

"This is likely due to the fact that psychopaths are extremely meticulous, compulsive and relentless by nature which helps them to coerce criminal justice practitioners. Moreover, psychopaths are very adept at imitating emotions such as remorse or guilt in the courtroom if they believe it will mitigate their punishment."

- Psychology Today (all snipets)

 

[Arkay]

Now I wonder if he job hopped because he wasn't a good teacher and the schools simply didn't like him??

Teachers need to be personable but he's not coming off that way. Maybe we'll learn more about that.

(Could be a creep as well, fwiw.)

jmo

I don’t know a thing about any states other than New York. Here it’s common that everyone who’s taught for long in one school is aware of the teachers who come and go very quickly.

It could be the teacher who decides to leave, but often it’s because they didn’t work out and the principal refuses to hire them for the next year.

In NYS, before you’ve earned tenure, the principal has no obligation to keep you around. Once you have achieved tenure, there is a LONG process involved to transfer or unload a failing teacher. Years-long.

For awhile there were teachers labeled as ATRs. That was the Absent Teacher Reserve. They were fully tenured teachers, therefore they did not lose their teaching licenses, but it was a back-door way for a principal to dispose of someone. Usually by cutting that position. Then the ATRs floated from school to school, wherever they were needed. Sort of akin to glorified substitute teachers, but with full pay and benefits.

My impression, not knowing this maniac of course, is that anyone who has spent each year in a different setting, in another state with its own standards, under a variation of his name, was not someone the admin wanted to keep.

It is possible that he chose to keep on moving, but that growling face in the teachers’ directory, and the comments from some parents, make me think otherwise.

JMO and JM experience.