US authorities have found human remains that could correspond to Travis Decker, the former government accused of killing his three daughters earlier in June. The finding has occurred in a remote wooded area of the state of Washington, according to the Chelan County Police Department in a statement.
“Although positive identification It has not yet been confirmedpreliminary findings suggest that the remains belong to Travis Decker, “said the note, indicating that the Washington state patrol criminal team has also participated in the works. The statement adds that A DNA analysis will be performed To check if the remains belong to Decker.
The authorities were looking for Decker, 32, since June 2, when an assistant to the police chief found his truck and the bodies of his three daughters –Paityn Deckernine years, Evelyn Decker of eight and Olivia Decker of five – in a campsite on the outskirts of Leavenworth. Three days before, he had not given the girls in his mother’s house in Wenatchee, about 160 kilometers east of Seattle, after a scheduled visit.
Decker was foot soldier in the army between March 2013 and July 2021 and was in Afghanistan for four months in 2014. According to the authorities, he had training in navigation and survival, among other skills, and once happened More than two months living in the forest isolated from civilization.
More than 100 troops from a series of state and federal agencies registered hundreds of square kilometers, a large part of them mountainous and remote, by land, sea and air during the intermittent search. Police offered a reward of up to $ 20,000 for information that led to your capture.
Last September, Decker’s ex -wife, Whitney Decker, wrote in a request to modify her custody plan thats mental health problems They had worsened and that it was increasingly unstable. She often lived in her truck, and she tried to restrict night visits with her daughters until she found a place to live.
Autopsies determined that Girls died from suffocationaccording to the police. They had been tied with flanges and plastic bags were placed on their heads.
