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(NewsNation) — The Washington sheriff’s section overseeing the manhunt for Travis Decker, the antheral accused of sidesplitting his 3 daughters, has indicated determination is “no definite evidence” that Decker is live oregon inactive successful the country wherever authorities believed him to beryllium hiding.
The Kittitas County Sheriff’s Office announced successful a societal media station precocious Monday that a hunt for Decker that involves respective agencies continues contempt aboriginal beardown investigative leads regarding Decker’s whereabouts giving mode to “less convincing proofs.”
The bureau said that it has received scores of leads and tips astir Decker's determination and that detectives and deputies person maintained other patrols successful respective locations to effort to find the 32-year-old Washington man.
“Still, we can’t and won’t discontinue this search,” the section said successful a quality release announcing that Decker remains astatine large, adding that the 3 girls allegedly killed by their begetter merit justice.
The hunt for Travis Decker
Decker has been missing since May 30, erstwhile authorities said that helium took his 3 daughters during a parental sojourn and ne'er returned the girls to their mother’s home. The girls, ages 5, 8 and 9, were recovered dormant adjacent a campsite connected June 2, and an autopsy determined that the girls died from suffocation.
Since then, authorities said that thousands of hours person been devoted to trying to find Decker, who constabulary warned should beryllium considered dangerous. The hunt has included national agencies, including the U.S. Marshal’s Special Operations Group, on with the U.S. Border Patrol’s Tactical Unit arsenic good arsenic section sheriff’s deputies.
In this handout photograph provided by the Snohomish County Sheriff's Office deputies enactment successful the hunt for Travis Decker, astatine an undisclosed determination successful Washington state, Friday, June 6, 2025. (Snohomish County Sheriff's Office photograph via AP)Photos released by the U.S. Marshal’s Office amusement agents from the national agencies successful mountainous terrain and besides displayed photos of a sheriff's section chopper being utilized to hunt for Decker.
Those progressive successful the manhunt person spent days and nights successful distant terrain and are moving with K-9 units and experienced trackers to place and travel “any credible lead” to what whitethorn beryllium Decker’s location, the Kittitas County section said Monday.
The section is inactive asking the nationalist to connection tips connected imaginable sightings of Decker, who has a subject background. The section instrumentality enforcement bureau said it remains prepared to deploy resources and telephone partners successful if caller grounds points to wherever Decker whitethorn be.
However, the section said that immoderate hunt resources are being allocated to find and retrieve Decker if helium died successful the rugged wilderness implicit the past 3 weeks.
Authorities called that anticipation 1 that “increases each day.”
The section said that deputies and detectives “want thing more” than to bring Decker to justness and judge nationalist consciousness is the champion instrumentality to marque that happen.
Decker claims helium ne'er took his girls anyplace unsafe
Decker, who is stateless and would often slumber successful his vehicle, successful motels and astatine campgrounds, said successful a precocious released courtroom signaling that helium had antecedently mislaid his overnight custody rights to the girls earlier their deaths. Before that, though, helium said helium ever took his daughters to safe, paid campsites.
Three Washington girls who were reported missing past week were recovered dead, and a hunt is ongoing for the girls’ father, constabulary announced. (COURTESY)“Every clip I’ve had the girls, we person been successful campsites and nationalist forests and paid campsites that person campers. We’ve ne'er done thing that was unsafe oregon thing I wouldn’t privation to enactment myself in,” Decker said successful the audio, which was from past fall.
Court documents cited by NBC News indicated that the girls were recovered zip-tied with integrative bags implicit their heads astatine the campground, which is located astir 130 miles eastbound of Seattle. The tribunal documents indicated that Decker was antecedently ordered to question intelligence wellness attraction and home unit choler absorption counseling but had refused.
Police person said that Decker remains a information to the nationalist arsenic agelong arsenic he’s astatine large. Relatives person told authorities that Decker tin past being outdoors for agelong periods of time. Authorities person besides suggested that Decker's carnal quality whitethorn person changed since the hunt began.
Chelan County Sheriff Michael Morrison told NewsNation that anyone who showed sympathy toward Decker would beryllium misguided. Morrison said that helium hopes that Decker tin inactive beryllium recovered alive.
“That is our hope. That’s yet up to him, but we would similar him to person his accidental to beryllium successful beforehand of our judges and to look justice,” Morrison said. “And we privation to marque definite that (Decker’s daughters’) voices are heard. Their communicative is heard and that their slayer is faced with justice.”
