Authorities attempting to find Travis Decker, the fugitive Washington father accused of murdering his three younger daughters, consider he could also be useless — with cops now bringing in cadaver canine within the search effort.
Decker, 32, a army veteran, has been on the run since final month after the our bodies of his three daughters Evelyn, 8, Olivia, 5, and Paityn, 9, have been discovered with plastic luggage over their heads and zip ties round their wrists close to their father’s deserted pickup truck.
“Presently, there isn’t any sure proof that Decker stays alive or on this space,” Kittitas County Sheriff’s Workplace mentioned in a assertion on Monday night time.
“Seemingly sturdy early leads gave strategy to much less convincing proofs over the past two weeks of looking out. Nonetheless, we are able to’t and received’t stop this search; Paityn, Evelyn, and Olivia Decker deserve justice. And Decker stays a hazard to the general public so long as he’s at giant,” the assertion continued.
Authorities are persevering with to seek for Decker all through Blewett Go, Lauderdale, Liberty and Teenaway Valley, the sheriff’s workplace added.
Cadaver canine are actually being utilized by groups in neighboring Chelan County because the seek for Decker enters its fourth week, Sheriff Mike Morrison mentioned on Monday.
“(U.S.) Marshals are following up on leads and we proceed to conduct joint operations with (close by) Kittitas County,” Morrison instructed USA TODAY. “Extra air operations will happen over the subsequent couple of days, inserting specialised search groups into extra inaccessible areas.”
A cadaver canine shall be deployed this week, Sheriff Morrison added.
“Some search sources are being redirected to search out and recuperate Decker if he died within the rugged wilderness throughout this intense search,” the Kittitas County Sheriff’s Workplace mentioned in its assertion, including that it’s “a chance that will increase on daily basis.”
The replace comes after the ladies’ mom, Whitney Decker, spoke publicly in regards to the lack of her youngsters for the primary time final week.
“I really hope that the legacy of the ladies’ lives lives on in everybody’s coronary heart without end,” she mentioned at a June 20 memorial service, in accordance with Fox 13 Seattle. “They have been unimaginable.”
