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Speaker 1: Crime Alert.

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Speaker 2: I'm Nancy Grace.

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Speaker 1: Breaking crime news now. Information continues to unfold in the

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Speaker 1: death of Clint and Kristen Brink, the mom and dad

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Speaker 1: who died fighting off an assailant in Devil's Den Park

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Speaker 1: protecting their two little girls, ages seven and nine. Straight

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Speaker 1: out to Nicole Parton for the latest.

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Speaker 2: Authorities revealed that Christine Amanda Brink returned to help her husband,

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Speaker 2: Clinton Brink, during the tragic double homicide at Devil's Den

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Speaker 2: State Park in Arkansas. Investigators stated that Clinton forty three,

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Speaker 2: was the initial victim of the attack. Christine forty one,

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Speaker 2: managed to lead their two daughters to safety before bravely

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Speaker 2: heading back to help her husband. Major Stacey Rhodes from

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Speaker 2: the Arizona State Police Criminal Investigation Division explained quote, the

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Speaker 2: mother did not fully return to the car with the children.

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Speaker 2: We believe she took them to safety first and then

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Speaker 2: went back to help her husband. The children were later

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Speaker 2: found approximately half a mile into the park, unharmed physically.

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Speaker 2: The couple was hiking with their daughters, ages seven to nine,

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Speaker 2: at the time of the incident. Fortunately, their daughters were

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Speaker 2: not injured and are currently in the care family members.

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Speaker 2: The couple also has a third daughter who was not

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Speaker 2: present on this hiking trip. Andrew James McGann, a twenty

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Speaker 2: eight year old former school teacher, has been charged with

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Speaker 2: two counts of capital murder. He was apprehended at a

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Speaker 2: barber shop in Springdale following a five day manhunt and

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Speaker 2: over five hundred tips from the community. During a press briefing,

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Speaker 2: officials disclosed that McMahon admitted to killing the couple, with

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Speaker 2: Rhodes describing it as quote an admission. Arkansas State Police

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Speaker 2: Colonel Mike Hager noted that there is no evidence suggesting

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Speaker 2: McGann was acquainted with the Brink family, and the motive

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Speaker 2: behind the attack remains unknown. McGann made his first court appearance,

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Speaker 2: where he was charged with two counts of capital murder.

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Speaker 2: The judge ordered him to be held without bell at

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Speaker 2: the Washington County Detention Center and appointed him a public defender.

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Speaker 1: You also have a right to communicate with your council,

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Speaker 1: your family, or friends.

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Speaker 2: And are reasonable means when we provided for you to

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Speaker 2: do that.

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Speaker 1: I've been presented with an affidaated of indigency this morning

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Speaker 1: from mister Parrish.

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Speaker 2: I'm going to sign off on that and appoint.

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Speaker 1: The public Defender's office to your case mom in Florid

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Speaker 1: to represent you be out with us, sirs.

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Speaker 2: The courts appointing the roll farms off point to the

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Speaker 2: tartist ropersent know through so too great to do that.

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Speaker 1: Yes, certainly, mister Kresh, I'll give you the extupport game

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Speaker 1: from when they finished this.

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Speaker 2: His arraignment is scheduled for August twenty five. Police confirmed

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Speaker 2: that McGann's DNA matched evidence collected at the crime scene,

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Speaker 2: and he sustained an injury during the attack that resulted

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Speaker 2: in blood loss, aiding in the DNA profiling process. Additionally,

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Speaker 2: a search horn executed at McGann's residence in Springdale, located

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Speaker 2: about thirty miles north of Devil's Den State Park, uncovered

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Speaker 2: items believed to be linked to the crime. Hager reported

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Speaker 2: until May of this year, McGann worked as a teacher

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Speaker 2: in a small school district in Oklahoma before resigning to

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Speaker 2: pursue a job in another state. Authorities noted that he

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Speaker 2: has no prior criminal record or known mental health issues.

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Speaker 2: The bodies of the couple were discovered on Saturday at

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Speaker 2: Devil's Den State Park in Washington County. That's about one

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Speaker 2: hundred and forty miles northwest of Little Rock, the capital

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Speaker 2: of Arkansas. Nancy. For now, McGann is currently detained without bond,

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Speaker 2: awaiting that next court appearance on August twenty five.

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Speaker 1: Nicole thank you more Crimate Justice news.

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Speaker 2: After this, authorities have discovered the vehicle belonging to Austin

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Speaker 2: Robert Drummond. He's the suspect in the quadruple homicide case

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Speaker 2: who remains at law argin Tennessee. Drummond is accused of

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Speaker 2: murdering four family members in Tennessee, leaving a seven month

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Speaker 2: old baby girl abandoned in a front yard. The car

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Speaker 2: was found in Jackson, Tennessee, which is over an hour's

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Speaker 2: drive from Tiptonville, where the bodies of the four alleged

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Speaker 2: victims were found. This according to an announcement from the

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Speaker 2: Dyer County Sheriff's Office, the Jackson Police Department has located

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Speaker 2: the vehicle associated with Austin Drummond. The post said, we

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Speaker 2: found the car in a wooded area near the end

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Speaker 2: of MC Road. It appears he may have been living

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Speaker 2: in the car and could still be in the vicinity.

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Speaker 2: The DCSO stated residents in the area are urged to

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Speaker 2: secure their homes and stay indoors while the search for

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Speaker 2: Drummond continues. He is considered armed and extremely dangerous. The

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Speaker 2: alert emphasized if you see him, please call nine to

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Speaker 2: one one right away and do not attempt to engage

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Speaker 2: the suspect. As of Saturday, August two, the Jackson Police

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Speaker 2: Department confirmed that Drummond was still on the run. Please

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Speaker 2: be cautious while out and about and stay alert. Residents

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Speaker 2: should ensure their doors are locked, as we do not

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Speaker 2: know the suspect's current location. The police department cautioned report

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Speaker 2: any sightings to nine to one one immediately. You can

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Speaker 2: continue your daily activities, but please do so with increased awareness.

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Speaker 2: The news of Drummond's vehicle being found comes alongside emerging

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Speaker 2: details about his background and the identities of the four

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Speaker 2: individuals he is accused of killing. Drummond faces charges of

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Speaker 2: first degree murder, kidnapping, and firearm possession related to the

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Speaker 2: deaths of Adrianna Williams twenty, James Wilson twenty one, Courtney

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Speaker 2: Rose thirty eight, and Braden Williams just fifteen. All four

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Speaker 2: victims were discovered on Carrington Road in Tiptonville. They have

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Speaker 2: been identified as relatives of the abandoned baby, specifically her mother, father, grandmother,

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Speaker 2: and uncle, and are all connected to Drummond's current girlfriend. Additionally,

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Speaker 2: reports from Fox News indicate that at the time of

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Speaker 2: the alleged murders, Drummond was out on bond for a

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Speaker 2: previous incident in which he was accused of attempted murder.

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Speaker 2: While incarcerated in December twenty twenty four. His criminal history

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Speaker 2: includes a robbery conviction at just sixteen years old and

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Speaker 2: threats against jurors. As reported by The Associated Press.

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Speaker 1: Nine year old Alexis Patterson walks from her Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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Speaker 1: home to school with her stepdad, Lauren Bourgeois. Borgeois says

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Speaker 1: he watched Alexis walk towards the playground before hitting home.

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Speaker 1: After school, Bourgeois and Alexis's mother, Arianna learn Alexis is

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Speaker 1: absent from school. Mom believes Alexis skipped class because she

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Speaker 1: got in trouble for not completing homework and could not

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Speaker 1: bring cupcakes to school that day. Fellow classmates say they

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Speaker 1: saw Alexis crying on the playground before and after school.

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Speaker 1: Alexis reported missing. Police suspect foul play as Alexis he

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Speaker 1: has no runaway history. Searches of the surrounding area turn

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Speaker 1: up nothing. Alexis bio Dad Kenya Campbell cooperates with police,

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Speaker 1: as does Ariana and Laurent Bourgeois, but police say Bourgeois

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Speaker 1: fails a polygraph, still no arrest. Alexis Patterson an African

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Speaker 1: American female child, brown hair, brown eyes, three feet eight inches,

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Speaker 1: forty two pounds. At the time she disappeared a scar

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Speaker 1: below her right eye and a bump on her left pinky.

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Speaker 1: That was twenty two years ago. If you have info

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Speaker 1: on what happened to little girl Alexis Patterson, please call

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Speaker 1: Milwaukee PD four one four nine three five seventy four

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Speaker 1: With this crime alert, I Nancy Grace