The all-American couple who were knifed to death while visiting an Arkansas state park were known as gentle, outdoorsy people devoted to their three children.

Clinton Brink, 43, and Cristin Brink, 41, were murdered during a Saturday trip to explore nature near their new home. Authorities on Wednesday arrested 28-year-old Andrew James McGann for allegedly murdering the couple at Devil’s Den State Park.

“They were outdoorsy people. They loved to take the girls and go do outdoor things and go hiking. They loved every minute of it,” Mary Hinebauch, a fellow choir member from their former church in Miles City, Montana, told Fox News Digital.

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

Amy, who knew the Brinks’ from their church in Miles City, Montana, said that the family were “wonderful people.”

“She [Cristin] got A’s in nursing school while raising babies and taking care of her family,” she told Fox News Digital. “She was involved in volleyball at Miles Community College, where she graduated with her nursing degree.”

“I loved her so much, and it just doesn’t seem real. Just seems there should be something I could do to take all this terrible tragedy back. Sadly, they are gone.”