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U.S. Marshals Say Travis Decker Is Dead as Prosecutors Seek to Dismiss Case

Local investigators await state lab DNA results before formally closing the homicide probe.

FILE - A photo of Travis Decker (left), who is wanted for the murders of his three young daughters (pictured on the right). (Credit: Wenatchee police & family of three the Decker girls)
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A photo showing Travis Decker, with the Chatter Creek Campground area in the background. This remote area of Grindstone Mountain is where human remains believed to be Travis Decker were found on Sept. 18, 2025. (KOMO / Wenatchee Police Dept.){ }

Overview

  • Federal court filings dated Sept. 23–24 state the U.S. Marshals Service advised prosecutors that Travis Caleb Decker is deceased and ask to quash the arrest warrant.
  • Search teams on Sept. 18 found clothing and scattered skeletal remains near Grindstone Mountain, less than a mile and roughly 1,200 feet above the girls’ recovery site, with bones sent to the Washington State Crime Lab.
  • Items recovered near the remains included a shirt, Army Ranger shorts, a bracelet and chewing tobacco, and a dive team earlier recovered a key fob consistent with Decker’s truck.
  • Chelan County Sheriff Mike Morrison cautioned the declaration could be premature and said his office will not close the case until DNA testing confirms the identity.
  • The three sisters were found June 2 near Rock Island Campground, and earlier DNA testing linked only Decker to plastic bags and cable ties used to suffocate them, reinforcing him as the sole suspect.