A 28-year-old schoolteacher has been charged with the murder of a married couple stabbed to death in front of their children after a five-day manhunt.

Clinton David Brink, 43, and Cristen Amanda Brink, 41, were found dead on a walking trail at Devil’s Den State Park, Arkansas on Saturday.

They had been out hiking with their daughters, aged seven and nine, who alerted authorities that their parents had been attacked. The girls were not hurt, police said.

Andrew James McGann was arrested at a barbershop in Springdale, some 30 miles from the park, after five days on the run.

He was charged with two counts of capital murder and was being held without bond in the state’s Washington County jail. He is scheduled to appear in court on Friday.

Police have declined to discuss a motive for the killings.