Nearly three months after his daughters’ deaths, the manhunt for Travis Decker continues.
Authorities have been looking for the Washington father since June 2025, when his three young daughters — Paityn, Evelyn, and Olivia — were discovered dead on June 2, just days after being reported missing during a “planned visitation” with him.
Their bodies were discovered near their father’s abandoned truck, and subsequent autopsies helped authorities determine that the young girls died of suffocation. The death was ruled a homicide.
Travis was charged with three counts of first-degree murder and one count of kidnapping following the deaths of the Decker sisters, according to a press release from police. However, nearly three months later, he has yet to be apprehended, despite authorities stating in a press release on August 19 that he is the “only suspect involved in committing these homicides.”
“At this time, we do not have any evidence to suggest Travis Decker is either alive or deceased,” the press release continued, noting that officials would continue their search.
So who is Travis Decker? Here’s everything you should know about the Washington father accused of killing his three daughters.
Travis enlisted in the United States Army in 2013, following in his parents’ footsteps as soldiers. Arianna Cozart, Travis’ ex-wife Whitney’s attorney, told PEOPLE in June 2025 that Travis “seemed to suffer from PTSD as a result of combat.”
Travis left the Army to join the Washington National Guard in 2021, which made his family life more difficult, Cozart explained.
“His issues seemed to spiral once he was out of what Whitney calls the bumpers of the military that kept him in line,” she told me. “He tried to get help — he went to the VA, he called the Veterans Crisis Line.”
Despite struggling with mental health issues and being unable to access veterans’ resources, Cozart told ABC News in June 2025 that Travis showed “no red flags” prior to his daughters’ disappearance.
“The courts did not fail these girls. “It wasn’t the judge or Whitney; it was our system,” Cozart explained. “[Whitney] feels like the system let Travis down. “If Travis had received the assistance he required, those girls would still be alive.”
According to the Wenatchee Police Department, Travis was “homeless and living in his vehicle or at various hotels/motels or at campgrounds in the area” when his daughters died.
Travis and Whitney met while he was stationed at a joint army-air force base in Washington and “never spent a day apart after they met,” Cozart told ABC News. They married and had three daughters: Paityn, Olivia, and Evelyn.
Cozart spoke with PEOPLE about how “his mental health struggles, including his feelings of isolation, paranoia and Borderline Personality Disorder led to the crumbling of their marriage in 2022.”
According to the affidavit, Whitney told investigators about her relationship with Travis and denied any domestic violence, but did “mention moments of power or control he used.”
“She provided the examples of randomly leaving or waking her up by screaming at her in the middle of the night,” according to the witness statement. “She also said near the end of the marriage he was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder that she believes he currently does not take medications for.”
In June 2025, Cozart told PEOPLE that Travis, who later worked in construction, was a “present and active father up until the end — still attending the girls’ soccer games, dance, and theater productions.”
“Although Travis was struggling with his own mental health, he was a good co-parent, always communicating frequently with Whitney up until Friday evening when the girls went missing,” she told me.
The attorney stated that he had never been violent with Whitney or the girls.
Travis lost overnight custody in September 2024, according to court audio obtained by News Nation, which shows him fighting to keep his daughters for overnight visits while swearing he has never done anything to put them in danger. In the audio, he can be heard claiming that he regularly took his daughters to paid campsites, but that he had “never done anything that was unsafe.”
Whitney claimed in a separate filing seen by PEOPLE that Travis “neglected his parental duties towards a child” and “has a long-term emotional or physical problem that gets in the way of his ability to parent.”
According to the parenting order filed in September 2024 and obtained by PEOPLE, the ex-spouses had a parenting plan in place that limited Travis’ visitation to eight hours on alternate weekends and three hours on Fridays. He was also not allowed overnight visits, though the schedule was temporary due to the court process, according to Whitney’s attorney.
Whitney reported her three daughters missing on May 30 after Travis failed to bring them home that night following a “planned visitation.” The following day, the Wenatchee Police Department issued an endangered person alert, stating that the young girls were “believed to be missing and unable to return home on their own.”
The missing persons alert was canceled days later, on June 2, when officials discovered the three sisters dead near Travis’ abandoned pickup truck at the remote Rock Island Campground in Chelan County. According to a press release from the Wenatchee Police Department, Travis was not at the scene, despite authorities locating his car near the campground.
According to Fox 13 Seattle, his vehicle was discovered “with two bloody handprints” near the bodies of the girls, and personal items such as blankets, food, car seats, and a wallet were found inside.
The Decker sisters’ autopsies were completed on June 6, and authorities announced that they had each died of asphyxiation, with their death being ruled a homicide.
According to an affidavit previously obtained by PEOPLE, each girl was found with plastic bags over their heads and at least one was restrained with zip ties.
Following the girls’ deaths, police announced in a press release that Travis had been charged with three counts of first-degree murder and one count of kidnapping.
Authorities have been searching for Travis for nearly three months, citing DNA evidence linking him to the plastic bags and zip ties discovered with his daughters. While the manhunt continues, the US Marshals Service has offered a $20,000 reward for information that leads to his arrest.
According to a U.S. Marshals Service affidavit, officials believe he fled the country after allegedly searching online for “how to relocate to Canada”. Meanwhile, Cozart previously told PEOPLE that she believes Travis died by suicide.
Authorities are requesting that anyone who sees Travis call 911 immediately and not approach him. People can also call the CCSO tip line at 509-667-6845 or send information to the line.
If you or someone you know requires mental health assistance, text “STRENGTH” to the Crisis Text Line at 741-741 to reach a certified crisis counselor.
