The Devil in The Den

DEVIANT

Cold Open Media

True Crime

4.8 • 610 Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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On a summer afternoon hike in Arkansas' Devil's Den State Park, tragedy strikes a family when Clinton and Cristin Brink are attacked in front of their children. The children survive. Their parents don't. The assailant: a mysterious man dressed in black. This episode of 'Deviant' brings you the details of the crime, the immediate police response and the intense manhunt that ensues. Host Dan Szematowicz explores the discovery and arrest of suspect Andrew James McGann, his alleged confession, and the evidence police say links him to the murders. As the investigation unfolds, we dig into the suspect's background, the seemingly random nature of the attack, and consider unsettling possibilities about his past. Join us as we chase the truth into the dark corners of what humans are capable of, and keep you updated on this heartbreaking case. JOIN OUR PATREON: http://www.deviantpodcast.com Visit DEVIANT's socials: http://www.instagram.com/deviant.podcast http://www.tiktok.com/@deviant.podcast READ THE HAPPINESS EXPERIMENT: ⁠⁠https://go.happinessexperiment.com/begin-aff-o2?am_id=podcast2025&utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=michael⁠⁠ Copyright 2025 Cold Open Media LLC Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	A family goes for a hike on a summer afternoon in Arkansas.
0:07.0	It's a family of five, but only four of them are there that day.
0:11.0	It's the parents and two of their young daughters.
0:14.0	They're at Devils Den State Park.
0:17.0	It's a beautiful place.
0:18.0	The greens are very green, there's no cell service. So it's really a refuge from modern society. It's lovely and it's popular and people come from all over to experience it. The family is about a half mile down the trail when it happens. Police say a man in all black appears. He has a knife.
0:38.6	The father is attacked first.
0:41.1	While he's fighting with the stranger, the mother gets the girls to safety and then runs back to help.
0:46.6	Neither of them survive.
0:49.2	Clinton and Kristen Brink are killed in Devil's Den by that stranger.
0:53.8	Try to relate to the office. We found the victims down here. They're on the lower
0:57.5	devil's den trail. Just a couple minutes. I think I see you right there. I've got two
1:05.1	bodies down here. These are the first official words about it that go out over the scanner.
1:11.4	First responders find the bodies of Clinton and Kristen, but their two little girls are unhurt.
1:16.8	They're terrified and they're looking for help, but they're physically unhurt.
1:21.5	What happens in Devil's Den that day begins a rapid sequence of events that we're only now beginning to understand, and the early
1:29.3	answers are truly baffling.
1:35.3	We're all wired differently. Some of us are wired for good, some of us are wired for bad.
1:41.3	But a select few step outside of all society's boundaries.
1:46.5	From cold open media, this is Deviant.
1:55.5	Welcome back to Deviant.
1:57.4	This is the show where we chase the truth into the dark corners of what humans are
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