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Big news this morning from out west. Nearly four months after a Washington state man vanished
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during a weekend custody visit, leaving his three daughters dead, investigators believe
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they have found his remains. Deputies say human remains were discovered in a remote wooded area
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near Leavenworth, not far from where Travis Decker was last seen. Personal items found nearby point
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to him, though DNA testing is underway. Decker had taken his three daughters, five-year-old Olivia
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eight-year-old Evelyn, and nine-year-old Peyton, who you see here, on a camping trip over Memorial
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Day weekend. When he failed to return them, a search began. The girls were later found dead
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in a rural embankment, their bodies covered with plastic bags. Decker, an Army veteran with
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survivalist skills, disappeared, sparking a wide manhunt across rough terrain. Authorities believed
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he may have been living off the grid in the Cascade wilderness