Travis Decker’s bones have been found, about three-quarters of a mile from the campground, Wenatchee World writes.
The search for Decker has been a months-long investigation starting the day that the girls bodies were found. Decker is accused of the killing of his three daughters: Paityn, Evelyn, and Olivia. On June 2, their bodies were discovered at the Rock Island Campground. They had been reported missing for four days, the search for them starting the day after they didn’t come home.
For months, leads and tips about the whereabouts of Decker’s location from the Bear Creek area of Sawtooth National Forest in Idaho, back to the Blewett Pass area in the Cascade Mountain Range, nothing helped to locate Decker.
On Aug. 28, the FBI started focusing their investigation within the area of Rock Island Campground where the girls were found back in June.
“Chelan County Sheriff Mike Morrison said bones were discovered in the area near the campground where the girls were found dead,” on Aug. 29 according to The Wenatchee World.
The bones were sent to the anthropology department at Central Washington University to discern whether or not the bones belong to a human or an animal. On Sept. 3, The Seattle FBI office declared the bones found near the Rock Island Campground have been reviewed and were “assessed that they are not human,” so the search continued.
Last week, a search led by the U.S. Marshals Service Pacific Northwest Violent Offender Task Force ended in the discovery of clothing and items that appeared to be those that Decker was wearing before going missing.
“Bones, including a foot, femur, several vertebrae, and other remains, were found inside the clothing,” Wenatchee World writes.
On Sept. 24, The U.S. Marshals Service announced Decker dead.
“They are not dropping their charges on Decker and will wait until DNA confirms the remains found belong to the father,” Chelan County Sheriff Mike Morrison told ABC News.
