Blood discovered near a Washington state campsite where three young sisters were found dead last week belonged to a man, cops revealed — as the massive manhunt for their Army veteran dad continued.
Authorities have been searching for Travis Decker, 32, ever since he failed to return his daughters — Paityn, 9, Evelyn, 8, and Olivia, 5 — to his ex-wife after a scheduled custody visit on May 30.
The bodies of the girls were discovered three days later at the campground in Wenatchee, roughly three hours east of Seattle, with plastic bags over their heads and their wrists zip-tied, police said.
Travis Decker is accused of killing his three young daughters. Facebook/Travis DeckerDecker’s abandoned truck was also found at the scene with two bloody handprints smeared on the tailgate.
Tests have since determined that blood samples taken from the scene came from a male, while another turned out to be from an animal, investigators said.
Decker’s dog was found alive at the scene and later turned over to the humane society for care.
The Chelan County Sheriff’s Office didn’t offer any further details on the blood samples.
(From left) Evelyn Decker, Paityn Decker and Olivia Decker. Facebook/Whitney DeckerMeanwhile, autopsy results for the girls determined they’d been suffocated, authorities previously revealed.
It comes as authorities revealed late Monday they were zeroing in on the Ingalls Creek and Valley High areas as the hunt for Decker — a former soldier with extensive survival skills — continued.
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“He is believed to potentially be in this area,” the sheriff’s office said in an alert. “Please secure your homes and vehicles, stay alert, and report any suspicious activity to 911.”
Officials have already searched hundreds of square miles — much of it mountainous and remote — by land, water, and air.
Authorities released new images of Travis Decker, who is wanted for murdering his three young daughters. Chelan County Sheriff's OfficeDecker, who was an infantryman in the Army from March 2013 to July 2021 and deployed to Afghanistan for four months in 2014, has training in navigation, survival, and other skills that make him “a very avid and well-versed outdoorsman,” authorities warned earlier.
He once spent 2.5 months living off the grid and searched online for how to relocate to and find a job in Canada in the days before he took the girls, they added.
Decker has been charged with murder and kidnapping, as well as a federal charge of unlawful flight to avoid prosecution.
With Post wires
