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Arkansas Authorities Search for Suspect After Deadly Park Assault on Couple | Crime Alert 6AM 07.29.25 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime alert on John Lemley. Police in northwest Arkansas are
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  Speaker 1: searching for a suspect after a couple was found dead
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  Speaker 1: on a hiking trail over the weekend, their two young
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  Speaker 1: daughters nearby but unharmed. Arkansas State Police save forty three
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  Speaker 1: year old Clinton David Brink and forty one year old
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  Speaker 1: Kristin Amanda Brink were discovered Saturday in Devil's Den State Park,
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  Speaker 1: a densely wooded area in Washington County not far from
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  Speaker 1: the Oklahoma border. Authorities are calling it a double homicide.
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  Speaker 1: The Brinks had recently moved to Prairie Grove, Arkansas, from
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  Speaker 1: out of state. Their daughters, ages seven and nine, were
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  Speaker 1: with them on the trail when the attack happened. Police
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  Speaker 1: say the children were not physically harmed and are now
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  Speaker 1: in the care of relatives. As of Sunday, the suspect
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  Speaker 1: remained at large, described as a white man wearing dark shorts,
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  Speaker 1: a dark ball cap, sunglasses, and fingerless gloves. He was
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  Speaker 1: last seen driving a black four door sedan, possibly a
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  Speaker 1: mile The car had a license plate partially obscured by
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  Speaker 1: tape and was spotted heading toward the park's exit. Investigators
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  Speaker 1: believe the vehicle may have traveled along State Highway one
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  Speaker 1: seventy or two twenty, roads that cut through a remote
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  Speaker 1: area where cell phone service is spotty. Shay Lewis, head
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  Speaker 1: of the Arkansas Department of Parks, Heritage and Tourisms AS
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  Speaker 1: rangers have increased patrols and are working closely with state
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  Speaker 1: police and other law enforcement agencies. In a statement, he
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  Speaker 1: offered condolences to the victims loved ones and reaffirmed that
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  Speaker 1: public safety remains a top priority. Officials are urging anyone
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  Speaker 1: who visited Devil's Den recently to check photos or videos
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  Speaker 1: that may help identify the suspect or his vehicle. So far,
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  Speaker 1: police have released no information about a possible motive. The
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  Speaker 1: Brinks bodies have been sent to the state Crime Lab
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  Speaker 1: for autopsy as the investigation continues.
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  Speaker 2: Now with the latest crime and justice breaking news Crime Online,
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  Speaker 2: John Lemley.
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  Speaker 1: Authorities in Los Angeles are searching for answers and a
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  Speaker 1: missing grenade after a deadly explosion at a Sheriff's Department
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  Speaker 1: training facility. Claimed the lives of three veteran deputies. The
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  Speaker 1: blast occurred July eighteenth that the Bisgaloos training facility as
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  Speaker 1: members of the department's Arson and Explosives Detail were handling
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  Speaker 1: two military style grenades recovered the day before from an
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  Speaker 1: apartment storage unit in Santa Monica. One grenade detonated, the other,
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  Speaker 1: according to Sheriff Robert Luna, has yet to be found.
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  Speaker 1: Despite extensive searches of vehicles, buildings, and even the gym,
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  Speaker 1: the unexploded device remains unaccounted for. No public access to
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  Speaker 1: the site has been reported. Killed in the blast Detective
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  Speaker 1: job Ushua Kelly Ecklund, Detective Victor Lemus, and Detective William Osborne,
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  Speaker 1: who served nineteen twenty two and thirty three years on
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  Speaker 1: the force, respectively. Luna called the incident the department's deadliest
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  Speaker 1: single loss of life since eighteen fifty seven. An ATF
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  Speaker 1: investigation is under way. Meanwhile, Luna has ordered sweeping policy changes,
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  Speaker 1: declaring that from now on, every explosive device, active or inert,
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  Speaker 1: will be treated as live. A state judge in Alabama
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  Speaker 1: has paused the schedule execution of a death row inmate
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  Speaker 1: to determine whether he's mentally competent to be put to death.
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  Speaker 1: David Lee Roberts, now fifty nine, was set to die
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  Speaker 1: by nitrogen hypoxia on August twenty first for the nineteen
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  Speaker 1: ninety two killing of Anitra Jones in Marion County. Prosecutor
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  Speaker 1: say Robert shot Jones three times in the head while
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  Speaker 1: she slept, then set the house on fire, but Circuit
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  Speaker 1: Judge Talmadgelee Carter issued a stay earlier this month, citing
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  Speaker 1: questions about whether Roberts understands the reason for his execution.
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  Speaker 1: His defense team says Roberts suffers from paranoid schizophrenia, hears voices,
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  Speaker 1: and recently tried to burn off tattoos he claimed were
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  Speaker 1: controlling his thoughts. The judge has ordered the execution delayed
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  Speaker 1: until Alabama's Department of Mental Health completes a competency evaluation.
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  Speaker 1: The state is not appealing the state, but has requested
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  Speaker 1: the process be expedited. The U. S. Supreme Court prohibits
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  Speaker 1: executing inmates who are incapable of understanding their punishment, though
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  Speaker 1: Alabama law offers no specific criteria for determining competency in
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  Speaker 1: such cases. A former sheriff's deputy in Georgia, has been
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  Speaker 1: sentenced to sixteen months in federal prison for using excessive
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  Speaker 1: force against a black detainee and a jailhouse beating caught
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  Speaker 1: on video. Twenty seven year old Ryan Beagle pleaded guilty
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  Speaker 1: earlier this year to violating the civil rights of Jarrett Hobbs,
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  Speaker 1: who had been booked into the Camden County jail in Woodbine,
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  Speaker 1: near the Georgia, Florida line September third, twenty twenty two.
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  Speaker 1: Federal prosecutors say security footage from that night showed Hobbs
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  Speaker 1: standing alone in his cell when five deputies entered. At
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  Speaker 1: least three, including Beagle, punched Hobbs repeatedly in the head
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  Speaker 1: and neck. He was then dragged into the hallway and
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  Speaker 1: slammed against a wall. Beagle was fired and arrested more
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  Speaker 1: than two months later, after Hobb's attorney released the jail
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  Speaker 1: video to the public. Two other deputies involved also faced
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  Speaker 1: state charges of battery and violating their oaths of office. Hobbes,
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  Speaker 1: from Greensboro, North Carolina, initially faced felony charges stemming from
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  Speaker 1: the incident, but prosecutors later dropped them citing insufficient evidence.
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  Speaker 1: Camden County later paid Hobbes, an undisclosed cash settlement to
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  Speaker 1: avoid a civil lawsuit. So far, Beagle is the only
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  Speaker 1: one to face federal prosecution.
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  Speaker 2: to find missing people, especially children, and solve unsolved homicides.
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  Speaker 2: With this crime alert, I'm Nancy Grace.