Found Deceased Olivia 5, Evelyn 8 & Paityn Decker 9, Endangered Alert, visitation w/ homeless dad Travis Decker 32, wh 2017 GMC Sierra PU, Wenatchee, 30 May 2025

[Knox]

Wasn't he stationed in GA?

Not sure where his stateside base was? Thought I read he was deployed to Afganistan and Italy.

 

[TDoc72]

Leave their blinds open during the day, at least, so they can see him if he shows up.

I thought maybe it was so that the searchers would be able to look inside cabins to see if anything was amiss instead of knocking the doors down.

 

[iamshadow21]

I thought maybe it was so that the searchers would be able to look inside cabins to see if anything was amiss instead of knocking the doors down.

That's what I assumed, too.

Like raising your window shade on a plane when coming in to land.

MOO

 

[Snoop Sister]

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[Snoop Sister]

Can’t seem to put the link in the above post but here it is

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[MizStery]

Can’t seem to put the link in the above post but here it is

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Thank you for bringing the Press Release & attachment over here to Webseluths. I am not a subscriber to FB. I appreciate the attachment because it has huge print. I have had several surgeries on my eyes and huge print is my friend.

Many thanks to the hundreds of law enforcement personnel who worked tirelessly conducting searches of dozens of structures and the forests. I am happy that (hopefully) many of them may return safely to their families this evening.

But the question remains where can TD be?

 

[sunspun]

yes, I dont know if it's possible to do something so heinous and also drug them to make it easier, those are 2 complete opposites. I dont know if they had to watch or if he separated them somehow. In the tent? or he could have even kept them in the backseat with child locks on.

Oh this would have been the worst if done this way. But it might have been the easiest for him. If he put them all together in the truck with doors locked where they couldn't open them... He could even have left them like that and just walked away! Until it was done.

I can't even imagine their horror.

 

[waitin'4thewrld2chg]

It would be scary to be a hiker on the PCT and receive word that it's conceivable that you could encounter this person.

 

[Knox]

After the episode he should have been at the police station or a church weeping, not out in the wilderness playing cops and robbers (is he is alive.)

Should have, but how many delusional people actually do what you suggest?

Lindsay Clancy did not turn herself in, but made a halfhearted attempt to kill herself. Another Mother in Maine did, after she killed her son and their pets, she marched down to the police station and turned herself in - google Megan Mcdonald. She has a thread here as well.

I’m tired of children paying the ultimate price. The legal system has got to recognize the growing mental health crisis in the US and quit sacrificing our children’s lives for the sake of parental rights!!!

Evelyn, Paityn and Olivia didn’t have to lose their lives.

 

[Knox]

Travis Decker didn’t snap - he slaughtered with intent. Plenty of people battle demons without murdering their children one by one. imo

Respectfully. I don’t think we have enough information to know that he didn’t “snap”. I’m not in any way defending him, but I can site over ten cases in the past year where parents battling mental health issues have killed their kids. I struggle to understand how it happens over and over - because like in this tragedy - red flags llittered the ground in every single case. But either the family or the legal system failed to take action to protect the kids.

 

[ttjo]

I truly hope she doesn't feel guilty that she allowed them to go, she couldn't have predicted this.

I hope she doesnt feel guilty, did she even have a choice? Weren't they court-ordered?

 

[truthfinder2019]

The more he manages to remain off grid, the more it shows he had well premeditated the whole thing. JMO

 

[Boxer]

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The dog is an interesting twist. I wonder why it didn’t follow him?

MOO Motorcycle.

 

[Brooklyn127]

Did TD have the ability/cognitive or mental capacity to understand/comprehend that there is law that punishes citizens for murder? Was he aware that LE/society would hold him accountable for the suffocation of his 3 daughters. We absolutely know he planned & made preparations to evade arrest/capture by LE because of his guilty conscience. He is a coward and his #1 priority after murdering his 3 daughters was to hide/conceal his whereabouts. Why because he realizes that when/if captured the public by way of the judicial system will hand out a harsh punishment for the suffocation of Paityn, Evelyn and Olivia.
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Please feel free to disagree. I read everyone comments. I respect all Webseluths posters opinion.

I love the way you say Please feel free to disagree, I read everyone's comments, I respect all Websleuths posters' opinion.
That is a true Websleuther!

 

[no greed]

MOO Motorcycle.

IMO it is quite possible TD had another vehicle (car, truck, motorcycle) at the camp sight as well as fake ID. Maybe the dog did follow him down the road. He may be in a wilderness area many miles from the area of the crime. Or in an urban area under a false ID. He probably did not anticipate these murders receiving the national coverage that it is getting. Remaining hidden in plain sight will be difficult.

 

[Protectwomenandgirls]

IMO it is quite possible TD had another vehicle (car, truck, motorcycle) at the camp sight as well as fake ID. Maybe the dog did follow him down the road. He may be in a wilderness area many miles from the area of the crime. Or in an urban area under a false ID. He probably did not anticipate these murders receiving the national coverage that it is getting. Remaining hidden in plain sight will be difficult.

Now that's an idea! Wonder if he had a motorcycle or dirt bike?

Some friends of mine rode their dirt bike through the mountains, camping on forest service roads for 100s of miles

He could have traveled out of the search area before law enforcement even started looking for him

He has a drastically different appearance depending on his current hair and beard length!

 

[Charlot123]

They are lifting roadblocks in Chelan County.
He is gone, but where?

Travis Decker search shifts focus as officials lift roadblocks in Chelan County

As the search progresses, officials announced they are removing roadblocks and reopening Icicle River Road, saying there is no longer a credible threat in that specific area.

www.kiro7.com

 

[Charlot123]

Now that's an idea! Wonder if he had a motorcycle or dirt bike?

Some friends of mine rode their dirt bike through the mountains, camping on forest service roads for 100s of miles

He could have traveled out of the search area before law enforcement even started looking for him

He has a drastically different appearance depending on his current hair and beard length!

Google says there is an Amtrak in Icicle station of Leavenworth.

I hope they have cameras and checked them.

 

[Nikynoo]

MOO Motorcycle.

How did he get it out there and did anyone see him with a motorcycle. It’s a good idea though.

 

[Sjöberg]

it is such an unusual method of killing someone. I think the reasons for why he chose that method are going to important, in all cases, wheateher he planned it ahead, wheather he did it on the spot without planning ahead or wheather he had some sort of a break from reality. I really want to ask my friends to list methods how to kill someone and to see if anyone mentions this option in their list of 10 or 20 ideas.

I asked around a little and so far, no-one has mentioned such a method when trying to list possibilities.

Considering he is a veteran who served in Afganistan, then could this particular method be something he witnessed there? Say, is it possible that someone (his army mates, Taliban fighters, local troops, anyone) used this method on local kids? As most war crimes go unreported, it is unlikely we'll get a full picture, but I'm thinking more generally, that is this method "a thing" at that time and place where he served? I found some hints that it might be, but nothing of the degree I was expecting for "confirmation" that it might be. (I'm saying nothing about intent here, if this is a method he "picked up" in Afganistan, he could have used it in either "sane" mind or not).

So googling around I did find this article:
On November 24, an interpreter working with German troops was killed in Kunduz province, in northern Afghanistan. His body was found inside a vehicle with a plastic bag over his head and his hands tied behind his back with wire.

And this one:
Al-Ani was captured by Joint Special Operations Command troops in July 2003. He told investigators that during his capture, he was forced to lie on his stomach in the back of a vehicle with his hands bound and head covered in a plastic bag. According to a letter al-Ani wrote, his captor “put his foot on my back and started screaming and cursing me in English, which I do understand.

And this one:
After the Afghan children arrived at Samaritas, Grand Rapids police responded nearly every other day to calls for incidents like missing persons, suicide threats, fights and assaults. The police reports were unavailable, but internal shelter records document many of those incidents. One boy put a rope around his neck, “acting like he wanted to hang himself.” Another day, a boy tried to suffocate another child with a plastic bag. A few days later, a worker found a boy scratching his forearm. He told her that “when his body is in pain, it prevents his head from thinking about his problems.”