Remains believed to be Travis Decker found three months after murder of three young daughters

Human remains believed to be Travis Decker were found after a three-month search for the Army veteran wanted for murdering his three young daughters near a campsite in rural Washington.The likely body of the National Guardsman was discovered in the Icicle River drainage after officials earlier warned he should be considered dangerous and could be “anywhere within the nation.”“We are waiting for further confirmation tomorrow,” Chelan County Sheriff Mike Morrison told NCWLIFE Thursday evening, “but it seems to be consistent with (clothing) we believe he was last seen in.”Official identification will be made by the Washington State Patrol Crime Lab.The bodies of Decker’s three girls — Paityn, 9 Evelyn, 8; and Olivia, 5 — were discovered with plastic bags over their heads and zip ties around their wrists near Decker’s truck on June 2, three days after he took them for a “planned visitation” from their home in Wenatchee.Preliminary investigations indicate the sisters likely died from asphyxiation.

Their mother, Whitney, told detectives that Decker, who would now be 33, “was quieter than usual, which was out of character,” when he picked them up, according to an affidavit seen by KOIN.The couple divorced a few years ago, but at the time, Decker was not homeless, and the separation was civil, according to the affidavit.But after a deterioration in his mental health and stability in the past two years, Decker’s access to his kids was cut to alternate weekends after a custody hearing several months ago, Whitney Decker’s lawyer, Arianna Cozart, told The Post.“He’s a broken human, like anybody who would commit such a heinous act is, you know, I don’t know a better way to put it,” she said, claiming that Decker had received little help after he left active duty for the US Army Rangers and had sought out emergency services for veterans.“What Whitney believes is that the girls would still be alive if our veteran system and the resource...