Overview

• The Chelan County coroner says the cause, manner and timing of Decker’s death will likely never be determined because only limited skeletal remains were recovered and the torso and skull are missing.
• Search teams found the remains on Sept. 18 less than a mile from Rock Island Campground, along with a shirt, shorts, a bracelet and chewing tobacco, after earlier recovery of Decker’s key fob by a dive team guided grid searches.
• Bones were scattered across five locations several hundred yards apart, and recovered elements included feet, femurs and vertebrae, with a state anthropologist finding no fractures consistent with a fatal fall.
• Federal prosecutors moved to dismiss the unlawful‑flight case after the U.S. Marshals Service advised Decker was deceased, and local officials announced the DNA match that closed the active search.
• Investigators continue to identify Decker as the sole suspect in the killings of his daughters Paityn, Evelyn and Olivia, whose deaths were ruled homicides by suffocation, based on forensic evidence from the campsite and his truck.