3 sisters who vanished while visiting homeless dad found dead near campground after frantic search

The three young sisters who vanished while visiting their troubled and homeless father have been found dead, police confirmed Tuesday.The bodies of the Decker sisters — Paityn, 9, Evelyn, 8, and Olivia, 5 — were found late Monday close to their father’s truck near a campground in Wenatchee, Washington, where SWAT teams had swamped the area, KIRO 7 reported.Officials had canceled the endangered missing person alerts for them Monday, without initially confirming the tragic discovery.The girls were last seen alive on Friday when their father, Travis Decker, collected them from their mother’s house for a planned visitation, police said earlier.He was earlier charged with three counts of first-degree custodial interference for allegedly failing to return his children, but was not found in the search for his kids, local media said.The bodies were found after a SWAT team swooped in on Rock Island Campground, about 18 miles west of the town of Leavenworth, at around 5 p.m.on Monday.Decker, who is homeless and divorced from his children’s mother, is known to stay at campgrounds and hotels in the local area with his dog, according to police.A warrant was issued for his arrest at around 5 p.m.

on Monday by Superior Court Judge Robert Jourdan.The offense is a Class C felony in Washington and carries a maximum sentence of five years.Decker picked his three daughters up at around 5 p.m.on Friday but did not tell their mother where he planned to take the girls, who were last seen traveling in his truck, a white 2017 GMC Sierra.The vehicle was spotted on the Wenatchee River Bridge heading north some 40 minutes later, according to a filed police affidavit seen by NCWLIFE.Later that weekend, the truck was spotted in the west end of Leavenworth, triggering a police search in the wooded areas around the town, NCWLIFE reported.Federal agencies, including Homeland Security and the Forest Service, were enlisted in the search for the missing girls.The girl’s mother had issue...