Found Deceased WA - Olivia 5, Evelyn 8 & Paityn Decker 9, found dead, Wenatchee, 30 May 2025 *father, Travis Decker 32, found dead* #3

[Unalienable Rights]

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The Wenatchee Police Department is asking for assistance in locating three juvenile females believed to be missing and unable to return home on their own. All three were last seen around 5pm on Friday May 30, 2025, as they left their home with the father for their planned visitation. They have not retuned and contact cannot be made with the father.

The father, Travis Decker, is homeless and living in his vehicle or at various hotels/motels or at campgrounds in the area. The visitation was part of a parenting plan, but he has since gone outside the parameters of it which is not normal and cause for the alarm.

The current investigation has not met AMBER Alert criteria, but the situation being monitored closely. However, an Endangered Missing Person Alert (EMPA) has been issues through the Washington State Patrol.

Please be on the look out and call 911 or RiverCom at 509-663-9911 if located.
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[Skigh]

Travis Decker's remains discovered in wilderness of Washington state

The Washington father has been on the run since early June , after he allegedly suffocated his daughters, Paityn, 9, Evelyn, 8, and Olivia, five, to death.

www.dailymail.co.uk

While positive identification has not yet been confirmed, preliminary findings suggest the remains belong to Travis Decker,' a statement from the Chelan County Sheriff's Office reads.

Sheriff Mike Morrison told NCWLIFE while they are awaiting further confirmation, it 'seems to be consistent with (clothing) we believe he was last seen in.'

The sheriff's office is continuing to process the scene of the discovery alongside the Washington State Patrol crime scene response team.

Authorities said a further DNA analysis will soon take place.

 

[wvmoonangel]

Thank God he has been possibly found,now Mom can get some closure and relief.

Remains believed to be murder suspect Travis Decker found near Leavenworth, authorities say

The Chelan County Sheriff’s Office says human remains that are believed to be the body of murder suspect Travis Decker have been found.

www.kptv.com

 

[tlcya]

Grindstone Mountain to Rock Island Campground

Optimistically waiting for confirmation these remains belong to Decker.

 

[arielilane]

Human remains believed to belong to Travis Decker, the Washington man accused of killing his three young daughters, have been found, according to authorities.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1969071220432716108

 

[Sillybilly]

Please continue discussion here.

 

[Oblio]

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Even after years following many such cases of wilderness searches, I do still always find it a little wild how remains can go undetected even when being searched grid by grid, by tons of volunteers, with a fine tooth comb. I suspect this is the simple answer in so many baffling ongoing mysteries.

Yes. This is my thought, too. From the elderly mushroom hunter missing in Del Norte County California to Kyron Horman. I think sometimes the simplest explanation is the correct one, but with dense wooded areas and certain geographic formations, it's very easy to disappear. Heck, that other case that's in the news where they recently identified that child in a barrel- didn't they find a couple of the barrels with remains first, than the last one many years later pretty much in the same spot? Wooded mountain terrain can hide a lot of secrets.

 

[cocomod]

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Friday at 11:53 AM

Interview with Sheriff Mike Morrison tonight. According to the Sheriff, his remains were found about 0.74 miles away from the initial crime scene, right around elevation above 4000ft. So just outside of the initial three search areas that they conducted earlier throughout the summer.

Sheriff also stated they are asking if they can get DNA results back by the end of tomorrow (Friday, Sept, 19th)

In this news video, the sheriff says that the remains were found 7.4 miles from the crime scene. The remains are severely decomposed and have been scattered by animals.

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I believe he said .74 miles from the original scene, not 7.4 miles (listen at 2.12 on the clip).

 

[KBlackRabbit]

I hope it’s him and he didn’t kill someone else and dress them in his clothes to try to throw off LE.

I’m local to the area and hike the Cascades regularly.

The terrain here is very rugged, there is a lot of vegetation, and it’s easy to walk right past a body and never see it. Plus there are a lot of deep cracks and crevices on steep mountainsides where a body can fall into and be hidden and never found and in many cases it’s too dangerous to get the dead body out. Hiking/backpacking/climbing out here means you have to accept that the outcome could be you are never seen again.

I wouldn’t be surprised if Mr. Ranger wannabe thought he could survive in the wild, he overestimated his abilities and underestimated the terrain, and he died by slipping and falling trying to hike/scramble the mountain.

Attached are screenshots from my navigator showing the terrain up to the 4000 ft level.

 

[iamshadow21]

Yes. This is my thought, too. From the elderly mushroom hunter missing in Del Norte County California to Kyron Horman. I think sometimes the simplest explanation is the correct one, but with dense wooded areas and certain geographic formations, it's very easy to disappear. Heck, that other case that's in the news where they recently identified that child in a barrel- didn't they find a couple of the barrels with remains first, than the last one many years later pretty much in the same spot? Wooded mountain terrain can hide a lot of secrets.

Yes, the Bear Brook victims were found fifteen years and a hundred yards apart.

MOO

 

[Twistinginthewind]

Oh... thank goodness!!!! Finally!!!!

I hope they are his remains, and it will be the closure needed for their mom and loved ones and community!!!

LE has been working so hard to find him in difficult terrain, and I so much appreciate their hard work and give them huge accolades for sticking with it in their investigation and honing in on him after all this time, after searching for him on and on and on everywhere, and every which way!!!

They're deserving of huge praise, IMO, all around!!

JMO

 

[sasha17]

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Friday at 11:53 AM

Interview with Sheriff Mike Morrison tonight. According to the Sheriff, his remains were found about 0.74 miles away from the initial crime scene, right around elevation above 4000ft. So just outside of the initial three search areas that they conducted earlier throughout the summer.

Sheriff also stated they are asking if they can get DNA results back by the end of tomorrow (Friday, Sept, 19th)

In this news video, the sheriff says that the remains were found 7.4 miles from the crime scene. The remains are severely decomposed and have been scattered by animals.

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I believe he said .74 miles from the original scene, not 7.4 miles (listen at 2.12 on the clip).

He also said it would be a 3 hour hike to reach the remains, which would be more consistent with hiking 7.4 miles distance than .74 miles distance IMO. https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/19/us/travis-decker-remains-believed-found-hnk

 

[Lalalacasbah]

He also said it would be a 3 hour hike to reach the remains, which would be more consistent with hiking 7.4 miles distance than .74 miles distance IMO. https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/19/us/travis-decker-remains-believed-found-hnk

So this spot was elevated? Was there a view/viewpoint kinda thing?

If suicide, I wonder if had this spot picked out as the place he wanted to die. Or if he suffered psychosis, he kept walking/hiking and then when the episode wore off and reality set it - he killed himself then and there.

Assuming this wasn't an accident, natural or he stumbled upon someone else who did it.

MOO JMO

 

[KBlackRabbit]

He also said it would be a 3 hour hike to reach the remains, which would be more consistent with hiking 7.4 miles distance than .74 miles distance IMO. https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/19/us/travis-decker-remains-believed-found-hnk

7.4 miles is nowhere near Grindstone Mountain.

The terrain is steep and there are no official trails up there. It could take 3 hrs to climb and bushwhack up there.

Rock Island to the top of Grindstone (7533 ft) is less than two miles in a straight line. He didn’t go half that far to reach the 4000 ft level.

 

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He also said it would be a 3 hour hike to reach the remains, which would be more consistent with hiking 7.4 miles distance than .74 miles distance IMO. https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/19/us/travis-decker-remains-believed-found-hnk

Local here and have camped and hiked in this exact area for years. The area where his remains were found would be a straight up hike, involve steep and dangerous terrrain with bush-wacking most of the way. So even though it's "only" .74 miles from the campground, it could easily take 3 hrs. hiking it without a trail. They were using a drone on the terrain because of the challenging geography which is how they originally discovered the remains.

Travis went in the opposite direction the authorities were mainly searching. They were highly concentrated on the south side of the Icicle towards the Enchantments but he traveled north of the road.

 

[waitin'4thewrld2chg]

Local here and have camped and hiked in this exact area for years. The area where his remains were found would be a straight up hike, involve steep and dangerous terrrain with bush-wacking most of the way. So even though it's "only" .74 miles from the campground, it could easily take 3 hrs. hiking it without a trail. They were using a drone on the terrain because of the challenging geography which is how they originally discovered the remains.

Travis went in the opposite direction the authorities were mainly searching. They were highly concentrated on the south side of the Icicle towards the Enchantments but he traveled north of the road.

I'm a local, too, but my wilderness experience consists of trips to my backyard in town, where four nicely-spaced pine trees share terrain with a couple of squirrels and a lawn chair. Nevertheless, I can easily picture point-seven-four of a mile seeming like a hundred as one bushwacks at every footfall while struggling to go up a down escalator that's been tossed into a maze. The surprising thing is not that these remains were missed in prior searches but rather that they were found at all. ~ imo ~

It comes to mind to wonder if the remains would ever have been located without the use of a drone....and how many other missing persons never found might have been located if this technology had been available.

I wonder if the nature of the articles found with the remains will be made known. Hope so. We know what was left behind in the truck. I wonder what was not left behind.

 

[Onebest]

We know from following so many cases that it’s very easy to miss a body. And the terrain where he was found it would be super easy. I hope this is proved to be his remains.
I may be one of the few, but I don’t have an ounce of sympathy for him. I think there was a vicious or evil thought in that head to torment his x wife. Just my opinion.
I don’t think that there’s any such thing as closure. I think there’s days when you’re less miserable. There’s days when it hurts so bad you can’t breathe. I hope finding his remains at least means that she doesn’t have to think he’s around some corner looking at her.

 

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Sheriff Morrison said this spot is incredibly hard to reach (Decker's remains) and their teams had to repel in via helicopter in order to reach it. And the Sheriff thanked Spokane Co for their assistance. So I looked at FlightRadar at paths yesterday afternoon and you can see this Spokane Sheriff helicopter's N509JS flight path and where they dropped the search team off.. right by Hoxsey Creek. I've attached some screenshots of the flight path. Travis's remains are likely very close to this area.

Will be interesting to know how he passed. If it was a bad fall and fatal injury or if he took his own life.

 

[Lalalacasbah]

Sheriff Morrison said this spot is incredibly hard to reach (Decker's remains) and their teams had to repel in via helicopter in order to reach it. And the Sheriff thanked Spokane Co for their assistance. So I looked at FlightRadar at paths yesterday afternoon and you can see this Spokane Sheriff helicopter's N509JS flight path and where they dropped the search team off.. right by Hoxsey Creek. I've attached some screenshots of the flight path. Travis's remains are likely very close to this area.

Will be interesting to know how he passed. If it was a bad fall and fatal injury or if he took his own life.

Good post and clever, thank you!

Is the creek dried up? Was he looking for water? Or in a manic bushwacking state just walking and walking and walking?

I tried to look at Google satellite images of the area, they look to be from 2025 as curious if I could grasp the surrounding/environment.

 

[UsernameRequired]

Good post and clever, thank you!

Is the creek dried up? Was he looking for water? Or in a manic bushwacking state just walking and walking and walking?

I tried to look at Google satellite images of the area, they look to be from 2025 as curious if I could grasp the surrounding/environment.

In May there likely was still water sources left in that area. One of the closets hiking trails near there is the Chatter Creek trail. He could have walked to that in about 40 mins from the Rock Island campground spot. It's possible that he hiked to the Chatter Creek trailhead and hiked up that trail to around the 4,000 ft level and then at some point decided to go off trail and traverse into the dense forest and disappear.

That area has far less activity and hikers vs the Enchantment region and probably chose it for that reason.

My guess is that Travis did not plan any of this and just panicked and ran. We'll know more with what other possessions they discover.

Chatter Creek

No matter how you tackle it, this hike is a workout. March through thick Ponderosa forests up to subalpine larch stands and a view from the pass, with options to continue on for a small alpine lake with backcountry campsites and access to other wilderness trails.

www.wta.org

Rock Island Campground to Chatter Creek Trailhead

maps.app.goo.gl