THE couple randomly knifed to death in front of their kids in Devil's Den State Park shared a tragic final message before they were savaged.

Clinton Brink, 43, and Cristin Brink, 41, were murdered during a remote family hike, sparking a huge manhunt in northwest Arkansas which ended with the arrest of former teacher Andrew James McGann , 28 .

Mary Hinebauch, a fellow choir member at the pair's former church in Miles City, Montana, told Fox News Digital about her memories of them and revealed their last conversation.

She said: "They were outdoorsy people. They loved to take the girls and go do outdoor things and go hiking. They loved every minute of it.

"That wasn’t an unnatural place for them to be. They did tons of stuff like that."

The family had recently moved to Arkansa

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