Found Deceased WA - Olivia 5, Evelyn 8 & Paityn Decker 9, found dead, manhunt on for father, Travis Decker 32, wh 2017 GMC Sierra PU, Wenatchee, 30 May 2025 #2

[KBlackRabbit]

Its summer and warm. MOO a space blanket and food is all he needs, the blanket doubles as an IR shield.
There is lots of water in the area and lots of food crops.

Temperatures are dropping into the 40’s at night in that area and even the 30’s at Blewett Pass. Also there’s rain. That’s hypothermia conditions. He’ll need a lot more than a space blanket, and hunting/foraging enough food to get him through the day while on the run burns a lot of energy.

 

[FromGermany1]

This is from ChatGPT Plus:

To get into – and stay in – U.S. Army Ranger School, a soldier first has to clear a brutal “screening week.” In plain terms that means:

• Prove you’re fit: crank out about 50 good push-ups and 60 sit-ups in two minutes each, do six strict pull-ups, then run five miles in under 40 minutes.
• Show you can move with weight: march 12 miles in three hours while carrying a 35-pound pack and a rifle.
• Handle water and heights: jump off a 35-foot tower into the water, ditch your gear underwater, and swim 15 meters in uniform and boots.
• Find your way alone: use only a map and compass to locate checkpoints in the woods during the day and again at night.
• Master obstacle courses and weapons basics without letting fear or fatigue stop you.

Pass all of that and the rest of Ranger School is weeks of field exercises where you lead patrols, shoot straight, give first aid, call in artillery, and haul heavy gear over mountains and swamps. Your classmates actually grade your teamwork; if too many say you’re dead weight, you’re gone. Miss any single standard and you either repeat the phase or get sent home – only those who meet every bar earn the Ranger tab.

Specifically:

To make it through U.S. Army Ranger School you first survive “RAP Week,” which screens physical and field essentials. You must score at least 49 push-ups and 59 sit-ups in two minutes each, six strict pull-ups, then run five miles in 40 minutes or less. That same week you complete a 35-foot tower jump and 15-meter swim in full kit, finish two tough obstacle courses, navigate day-and-night land-nav lanes (find 4 of 5 points in about five hours), and ruck-march 12 miles with a 35-lb pack and weapon inside three hours. Fail any single event and you’re dropped or recycled.


If you pass RAP Week, the course shifts to field competence: weapons qual (M4, M249, M240), first-aid and call-for-fire lanes, and constant graded patrol leadership. Throughout the three phases (Darby, Mountain, Florida) you must keep a 60 percent peer-evaluation average; fall below and you’re out. Add airborne qualification, clean medical, security clearance paperwork, and you have the full checklist—meet every standard, every time, or go home without the Tab.

Not much longer and he will probably have earned his (inofficially) status as an Army Ranger (even being chased from the sky after all) .....

 

[Nikynoo]

The Chelan County Sheriff's office has put out an updated statement and updated photos of TB.

Latest search. Makes me think they have something solid that indicates TD is still alive.

 

[girlhasnoname]

Which makes me wonder how organized he was to start with.
He failed the rangers’ test. I don’t know anything about the test, but assume that there is a theoretical part, like any exam. I wonder if he failed it.
One also wonders what evaluation he didn’t show up for.

TD refused to do the Psych Eval. ordered by the Court when WD took him back to Court for changing the custodial visitation schedule to include no overnight visits.

 

[Trino]

According to the FBI, in 2022 there were 21,156 cases of murder, defined as the willful killing of one human being by another.

Some of these killers like TD lived alone so who was to know their intentions? Others like the recent VB who killed MN legislators just suprised everyone and went off the deep end. Finally, there was Stephen Paddock who - still w/o a known reason - killed 58 in Las Vegas, wounded 413 by gunshots.

Had an acquaintance who after arguing with his wife shot and killed her. No criminal record. Never an indication this would happen. Served 16 yrs.

Do we all know someone who could/might/you never know fit the category of murderer?

Information has to be legal - being a threat to himself/herself or others - to have someone placed in a secure mental facility. Thinking a person could be a threat - as with TD - isn't enough.

 

[Boxer]

Temperatures are dropping into the 40’s at night in that area and even the 30’s at Blewett Pass. Also there’s rain. That’s hypothermia conditions. He’ll need a lot more than a space blanket, and hunting/foraging enough food to get him through the day while on the run burns a lot of energy.

True. i am thinking he was/is traveling at night till temps go up for the Day, also that he knew he was made by Colchuck hikers and the helicopters that followed, so he made his way down to around Cle Elum to where there are starting to be resources. I think he still only moves at night and is still looking for a way out of the perimeter.

MOO I am not sure I think the Blewett Pass sighting was him. It seems counter intuitive to escaping the helicopter search that followed the Colchuck sighting.

In any case yes it is too cold at night to rest, I just think that is when he is "working."

 

[MizStery]

Travis Decker manhunt has eerie similarities to 2020 hunt | FOX 13 Seattle

Transcript of FOX 13 Seattle interview with Inspector Whitsett​

<snip>
Lauren Donovan, FOX 13: "That investigation was brought up multiple times by the Chelan County Sheriff. Why was that connection made?"

Chris Whitsett, Inspector with Kittitas County Sheriff's Office: "There are a number of reasons why, or a number of similarities that this current manhunt bears to one that we had in 2020 that started on May 17th of 2020, when a turkey hunter from the west side named Ian Eckles didn't show up to a hunting date with his partners. And that started a missing persons investigation that after a week... turned into a manhunt when we discovered a stranger driving his vehicle and with indications that there had been a violent confrontation and that led us to believe that Ian Eckles had been killed. That manhunting, like this one, lasted more than three weeks

Travis Decker manhunt echoes 2020 hunt in same WA wilderness

The Kittitas County Sheriff's Office is applying lessons from a 2020 manhunt, which lasted over three weeks in similar wilderness terrain, to the current search for Travis Decker.

www.fox13seattle.com

 

[RedHaus]

Travis Decker manhunt has eerie similarities to 2020 hunt | FOX 13 Seattle

Lauren Donovan, FOX 13: "That investigation was brought up multiple times by the Chelan County Sheriff. Why was that connection made?"​

RSBM
...and here is my 10% of your article that caught my eye... This gets to my lingering question about whether TD is or was ever in the search area. Interesting parallel between these two cases.

Chris Whitsett, Inspector with Kittitas County Sheriff's Office:
""...It was in much of the exact same terrain, or at least some of the same. It overlapped. It was in. Up off of Blewett Pass, and it involved a lot of the same kind of interagency, multi-agency resource coordination and command that challenge the same challenges of communications and remoteness that this one faces, teams in the field for days after days after days, dogs tracking.

And one of the most important things thinking about it in preparation for this interview that I think we took away that we bring to this experience is during a lot of that time, much of the public was saying, telling us, 'Oh, he's gone. He's absolutely got away.'

And we kept having little pieces of evidence or information that made us think, maybe not, maybe he's still here. And maybe he's just successfully evading us all this time.

Like we have reason to believe with Travis Decker, that suspect was intimately familiar with this particular wilderness and with living off the grid and in the quiet for long stretches at a time. So we were in that place of not being sure what's happening and having to persist day after day, after day until a citizen finally called us and said, there's somebody in this cabin and I don't think they're supposed to be there. And we found it was the suspect, and we made an arrest.""

 

[KonaHonu]

I have not been following this case closely but I think I am caught up. I really get the feeling that this guy may not be caught, at least for a while. If anyone knows how to evade and survive it is him. It's really going to depend on whether he prepared for this. We've heard that he made caches. It is entirely possible he cached a completely new identity. He could be several states away by now.

 

[Gemmie]

I have not been following this case closely but I think I am caught up. I really get the feeling that this guy may not be caught, at least for a while. If anyone knows how to evade and survive it is him. It's really going to depend on whether he prepared for this. We've heard that he made caches. It is entirely possible he cached a completely new identity. He could be several states away by now.

Well, if he was well prepared to evade arrest for a long stretch of time... then he pre-planned the murders of his children IMO.

 

[KonaHonu]

Well, if he was well prepared to evade arrest for a long stretch of time... then he pre-planned the murders of his children IMO.

Absolutely. I think he did plan the murders to punish his wife. I'm not rooting for the guy, just expressing what seems to be the reality.

 

[UsernameRequired]

Search teams in Chelan County are tracking down tips from psychics who claimed to have information that could lead to the whereabouts of the homeless, former soldier, Travis Decker, who has been at the center of a manhunt in Eastern Washington.

“They’ve reached out, and they’ve given some theories,” said Chelan County Sheriff Mike Morrison in a recent interview with radio station WTMJ in Wisconsin. “And of course, we’ve made an effort to look into some of those, and we appreciate them just being willing to offer their services.”

Morrison made the comments during a recent interview with WTMJ. KIRO Newsradio emailed Morrison with follow-up questions, including added context around how much weight search teams have been placing on leads generated from psychics.

Chelan Undersheriff Dan Ozment told KIRO that their department has received hundreds and hundreds of tips from around the country concerning their ongoing search for Decker.

“We recognize that any bit of information that comes in, we’re going to process it, assess it, and continue to do what we can to make the best effort possible to bring this case to a close,” said Morrison.

Tuesday, Ozment also dispelled recent rumors circling social media that Decker has been captured. “Our Office was notified of a TikTok video that was released, which portrays Sheriff Morrison and claims Mr. Decker has been taken into custody after a long standoff,” Ozment explained in a press release. “To be clear, Mr. Decker is not in custody and CCSO had no part in making the video.”

While it’s unclear what specific video Ozment referred to, KIRO Newsradio found dozens of videos on TikTok that falsely claimed Decker was captured or arrested at the Canadian border or other areas in Washington State.

Psychics assist in search for Travis Decker's location

Authorities follow psychic leads in the hunt for Travis Decker, a missing homeless man in Chelan County.

mynorthwest.com

 

[MizStery]

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[MizStery]

Sheriff: Decker considered alive as new leads emerge | king5.com​

Updated: 9:11 PM PDT June 18, 2025

<snip>
Law enforcement agencies are investigating several new leads, including a reported sighting near the unincorporated community of Teanaway in Kittitas County. Other reports place Decker in the Alpine Lakes Wilderness near Ingalls Creek

Authorities say the fugitive’s potential reach may have expanded, citing unconfirmed reports from as far as Texas, Canada and England. FBI behavior analysts have developed a psychological profile of Decker to assist in anticipating his movements.

<snip>
The manhunt is expected to shift toward a longer-term strategy,
“We're starting to transition into looking more towards the long game,” Morrison said.

Sheriff: Decker still considered alive as new leads emerge

Law enforcement agencies are investigating several new leads, including a reported sighting near the unincorporated community of Teanaway in Kittitas County.

www.king5.com

 

[Sundog]

Sheriff: Decker considered alive as new leads emerge | king5.com​

Updated: 9:11 PM PDT June 18, 2025

<snip>
Law enforcement agencies are investigating several new leads, including a reported sighting near the unincorporated community of Teanaway in Kittitas County. Other reports place Decker in the Alpine Lakes Wilderness near Ingalls Creek

Authorities say the fugitive’s potential reach may have expanded, citing unconfirmed reports from as far as Texas, Canada and England. FBI behavior analysts have developed a psychological profile of Decker to assist in anticipating his movements.

<snip>
The manhunt is expected to shift toward a longer-term strategy,
“We're starting to transition into looking more towards the long game,” Morrison said.

Sheriff: Decker still considered alive as new leads emerge

Law enforcement agencies are investigating several new leads, including a reported sighting near the unincorporated community of Teanaway in Kittitas County.

www.king5.com

So basically they are saying he could be anywhere?

 

[SadieSeeks]

So basically they are saying he could be anywhere

That’s how I interpreted it as well.
I am curious how he could even potentially be in England? Per the unconfirmed reports. Which I know should be taken with a grain of salt regardless.. but still.

 

[Charlot123]

So basically they are saying he could be anywhere?

JMO. I fail to understand Chelan county PD's logic. To believe that an ex-military killer would be running circles around the place where he killed his three children doesn't seem reasonable in hindsight. Maybe we overrated the level of his paranoia and underrated manipulation and planning. I think he is far gone from Eastern Washington; on the other hand, there are many depopulated areas here and in Eastern Oregon, and he can likely survive on fruits and vegetables grown locally. My concern is, with current photos of the man and no voice recordings, given what we wear now in WA (it rains again), there is no way I would be able to recognize him from the photos in the media. Likewise, the Texans, the Canadians and the Brits are likely blissfully unaware of him traveling their lands. He probably won't go to Afghanistan, although now it is a great place to hide. Europe and other known destinations are not impossible. To not drop the ball further, LE should provided us with maximum information to assist in recognition. Including quality voice recordings.

 

[Charlot123]

That’s how I interpreted it as well.
I am curious how he could even potentially be in England? Per the unconfirmed reports. Which I know should be taken with a grain of salt regardless.. but still.

Prior girlfriend or boyfriend accumulated during his stay in Europe?

 

[Boxer]

So basically they are saying he could be anywhere?

Seems they think he got away.

But i thought he would descend to around Teanaway or Cle Elum when the choppers were circling his last position.
Once down he might hunker down, operating only at night to forage and fortify himself to prepare for a long and swift clandestine hike out of the area at the next moonless night which is June 25.

 

[Protectwomenandgirls]

I'm thinking he cached ahead of time and went into hiding. I know a guy who used to cache so he could meditate in a cave for a month.

Maybe he's planning on moving once the heat of the search wears off?

On the other hand, a lot of preppers keep a cache hidden nearby so if something happens they always have a place to run to