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(NewsNation) — The bloody handprint recovered connected the pickup motortruck of a Washington authorities begetter sought successful transportation with the sidesplitting of his three young daughters appears to beryllium adult-sized, the sheriff starring the manhunt said Wednesday.
Chelan County Sheriff Mike Morrison told NewsNation that the handprint discovered connected the backmost of Travis Decker's motortruck "was astir the size of an big handprint," but authorities are unsure whether it came from Decker oregon idiosyncratic other who whitethorn person been astatine the scene.
"We're not ruling thing out," Morrison said connected NewsNation’s “Banfield,” adding that transgression laboratory teams collected samples and spent respective hours processing the country wherever the girls' bodies were found.
Girls recovered with zip ties, integrative bags implicit heads
The bodies of Paityn, 9; Evelyn, 8; and Olivia, 5, were discovered Monday day adjacent a campground westbound of Wenatchee, astir 100 yards from their father's abandoned pickup truck.
Court documents bespeak the girls died from asphyxiation and were recovered with zip ties astir their wrists and integrative bags implicit their heads, NBC News reported.
The sisters were past seen Friday evening erstwhile they near for a custodial sojourn with their father. Their parent reported them missing astir 8 p.m. erstwhile Decker failed to instrumentality them arsenic scheduled.
Police inactive searching for girls’ begetter Travis Decker
Three Washington girls who were reported missing past week were recovered dormant Monday, and a hunt is ongoing for the girls’ father, constabulary announced.
The girls were discovered conscionable earlier 4 p.m. section time, constabulary said, aft detectives successful Chelan County, Washington, gathered accusation that led them to hunt an country astir Leavenworth, wherever they hoped to find the girls and their father, Travis Decker.
Three Washington girls who were reported missing past week were recovered dormant Monday, and a hunt is ongoing for the girls’ father, constabulary announced.
The girls were discovered conscionable earlier 4 p.m. section time, constabulary said, aft detectives successful Chelan County, Washington, gathered accusation that led them to hunt an country astir Leavenworth, wherever they hoped to find the girls and their father, Travis Decker.
Three Washington girls who were reported missing past week were recovered dormant Monday, and a hunt is ongoing for the girls’ father, constabulary announced.
The girls were discovered conscionable earlier 4 p.m. section time, constabulary said, aft detectives successful Chelan County, Washington, gathered accusation that led them to hunt an country astir Leavenworth, wherever they hoped to find the girls and their father, Travis Decker.
Morrison said aggregate agencies are progressive successful the hunt for Decker, 32, including the U.S. Marshals Service, FBI, Border Patrol, Homeland Security Investigations and Washington State Patrol. The hunt involves drones with thermal imaging, cadaver dogs and crushed units.
Authorities are besides analyzing cellphone operation information and physics devices recovered astatine the scene, Morrison said. A $20,000 reward has been offered for accusation starring to Decker's arrest.
Decker's subject grooming and endurance skills are complicating the manhunt successful the mountainous, wooded terrain of Chelan County, Morrison said. The fishy served successful the Army starting successful 2013 and transferred to the Washington National Guard successful 2021.
Morrison said Decker's begetter told investigators that his lad had enjoyed spending clip successful the wilderness since childhood, sometimes for months astatine a time, and was known to cache supplies successful distant areas.
"If helium did acceptable it up beforehand and enactment supplies retired there, it could marque it much hard to way him down," Morrison said.
Morrison confirmed determination had been a imaginable sighting of Decker but declined to supply details. He described the fishy arsenic 5 feet, 8 inches gangly and 190 pounds with achromatic hairsbreadth and brownish eyes. Decker was past seen wearing a light-colored garment and acheronian shorts.
Police person warned the nationalist that Decker should beryllium considered unsafe and not to attack him if spotted.
NewsNation's Jeff Arnold and The Associated Press contrbited to this report.
