According to the court documents, three girls were found that were killed by their father and were found with plastic bags in a remote part of the Washington state, according to judicial documents obtained on Wednesday.
A preliminary examination concluded that girls, aged 5, 8 and 9, probably died from suffocation, according to an affidavit in support of an arrest warrant for his father, Travis Decker.
Decker, 32, is sought by first degree and kidnapping murder positions. The US Marshals Service announced a reward of $ 20,000 on Wednesday for information that leads to its capture.
It is not known that the veteran military is armed, but must be considered dangerous, authorities said.
According to the affidavit, Decker’s ex -wife initially communicated with the authorities last week when he could not return the girls after a visit and she could not contact him on the phone.
The former couple was married for seven years, but divorced into a decker process, the ex -wife described as a civilian, according to the affidavit.
She told a detective in Wenatchee, approximately 150 miles east of Seattle, that there had been no problems with recent visits and described her ex -husband as communicative about her daughters, according to the affidavit.
“She reiterated that Decker has never failed to return the children,” says the affidavit.
Decker’s ex -wife said they agreed a breeding plan last September, the detective said Decker refused to sign the document after being homeless, according to the affidavit.
As part of the plan, Decker was supposed to seek mental health treatment and management advice of domestic violence, but he had not done so, according to the affidavit.
A national guard spokesman said Decker became a member of the active service service in 2012 and was transferred to the National Guard in 2021. He is still an active duty member but has been absent from the monthly exercises for approximately one year, said the spokesman.
A search throughout the weekend throughout the weekend for girls led the authorities to obtain an arrest warrant for decker for custody interference charges. Just before 4 pm on Monday, his truck was found unemployed on Monday near a camp west of Wenatchee, according to the affidavit.
Along with the seats, blankets and food, Decker’s wallet was inside the vehicle, the detective wrote. According to the affidavit, two bloody footprints were seen on the rear gate and the plastic bags and plastic bags were dispersed by the truck already along the way to the bodies of the girls.
They were found in a embankment, approximately along a football field away from the Decker truck, the detective wrote. In addition to the bags on their heads, the girls had strips around their wrists or showed signs of having been tied with zipper, according to the affidavit.
Chelan County coroner positively identified boys as missing girls, according to the sworn statement. Upon arriving on Wednesday, the forensic of Chelan County, Wayne Harris, refused to provide details about his deaths because an autopsy has not been completed, he said.
In a collection of online funds, a music teacher who previously taught the girls described them as “a true light in this world.”
“It’s a darker place without them,” he said.
