The Weekly Docket : Arkansas Hiking Trip Tragedy, Abandoned Baby in Tennessee, and Colorado Dentist Found Guilty of Murdering Wife
Mama Mystery with Kelly Evans
Kelly Evans
4.6 • 769 Ratings
🗓️ 1 August 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s Weekly Docket, we’re diving into some heavy cases making headlines right now:
- A family hiking trip in Arkansas turns deadly when a teacher—with a disturbing past—allegedly murders a couple in front of their kids.
- In Tennessee, an abandoned baby leads police to a heartbreaking discovery.
- A retired Missouri cop claims he shot a young mother on his porch in self-defense, but investigators are calling out his story.
- Aaron Specer, the Arkansas dad charged with murder after he killed Michael Fosler, the man accused of abusing Aaron's teenage daughter.
- A Utah mom admits she tricked her estranged husband into coming over, only to have her own family ambush and kill him.
- And finally, in Colorado, dentist James Craig is convicted after secretly poisoning his wife’s protein shakes.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to Mama Mystery. I am your host, Kelly, and thank you for joining me on another episode of The Weekly Docket, where every Friday we recap the top stories in the true crime space. So without further ado, we've got a lot to cover, family hiking through a scenic park when out of nowhere. Some creepy guy lurking in the shadows comes out and attacks your parents right in front of you. |
| 0:40.9 | Now that is exactly what happened to the Brink family at Devil's Den State Park in Arkansas this week. |
| 0:46.3 | On a seemingly perfect Sunday afternoon, Clinton, David Brink and his wife, Kristen Amanda Brink, |
| 0:51.7 | took their two young daughters, ages seven and nine, out to the |
| 0:55.2 | park to spend some quality family time together. It was supposed to be a day filled with fresh air |
| 1:00.6 | and sunshine and memories, and yet it turned into this unimaginable tragedy. On July 23rd, around |
| 1:07.0 | 3 p.m., police received frantic calls about an attack on a hiking trail inside the |
| 1:12.3 | popular state park. When they arrived, they discovered the Brinks, 43-year-old Clinton and 41-year-old |
| 1:18.4 | Kristen had been brutally stabbed to death. But what's even more sick about this story is that |
| 1:24.5 | their young daughters witnessed the entire thing, the entire thing. |
| 1:30.1 | Somehow the girls managed to escape physically unharmed, but emotionally it's hard to imagine |
| 1:35.1 | the trauma that they're going to face for the rest of their lives. |
| 1:38.1 | Now, as news of the attack spread, people were wondering how something like this happens in Devil's Den |
| 1:42.9 | State Park, because it's |
| 1:44.3 | normally known as a family-friendly place where people regularly bring their kids for just |
| 1:50.2 | outdoor adventures so who would do this within days investigators had an answer |
| 1:54.9 | authorities had actually released a photo that was of this guy's backside and |
| 1:59.7 | they were asking the public for help. And after they were |
| 2:02.0 | combing through witness statements, evidence, and surveillance footage from the park's entrance, |
| 2:07.5 | they finally narrowed it down to 28-year-old James Andrew McGahn, a man who up until that day |
| 2:13.9 | had no connection to the Brink family. But here's where it gets even more chilling. |
| 2:19.3 | James Andrew McGahn was not just some random drifter. He was an elementary school teacher. |
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