A teacher arrested in the murder of a married couple found stabbed to death on a trail in an Arkansas park was held without bond after a brief court appearance on Friday.

A 28-year-old man has been arrested and charged with murder following the deaths of husband and wife Clinton and Cristen Brink. who were killed while out hiking with their two young daughters in Arkansas.

James Andrew McGann, 28, was arrested and charged with two counts of capital murder in the deaths of Clinton and Cristen Brink, authorities said.