Is Travis Decker Still Alive? Police Say DNA Found on Truck's Tailgate Is His

Blood discovered on Travis Decker’s truck matches his DNA, the Chelan County Sheriff’s Workplace introduced Tuesday, July 1.

The sheriff’s workplace stated the Washington State Crime Lab confirmed that the DNA within the blood discovered on the tailgate of Decker’s truck matched the DNA profile they imagine is the U.S. Military veteran’s.

Regulation enforcement stated Decker’s deserted truck was found in a distant space of the Rock Island Campground in Washington state on June 2 — a discovery that led them to the our bodies of Decker’s three younger daughters Paityn, 9, Evelyn, 8, and Olivia, 5.

Additionally discovered on the scene had been Decker’s pockets and cellphone.

Decker is needed on first-degree homicide and kidnapping expenses and has but to be apprehended a month after the seek for him started.

“Detectives initially recovered some particular person, private gadgets, from the scene they believed belong to Mr. Decker,” in line with a Chelan County Sheriff’s Office press release.

“The lab took DNA samples from these gadgets and located they matched the DNA within the blood samples recovered on the scene. We all know, positively, that the entire DNA samples recovered belong to the identical, male, topic, who we imagine is Mr. Decker. With this proof, together with the opposite evidentiary gadgets discovered on the scene, we don’t have any purpose to imagine there are another suspects.”

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On Could 30, Travis picked up the women for a 3 hour court-ordered go to however did not deliver them again to his ex-wife, Whitney Decker. Later that evening, Whitney went to the Wenatchee Police Division to report her daughters lacking, which triggered an enormous seek for the women.

Together with Travis’ white pickup truck, his husky was additionally found.

“As quickly as we got here on scene, [the dog] got here up over to the riverbank and got here to us,” Chelan County Sheriff Mike Morrison instructed PEOPLE. “Was very pleasant. It did not seem like in misery. And once more, it walked proper as much as us as we got here on scene.”  

Since then, native, state and federal authorities have scoured the encircling space for Decker.

At one level, Travis, a fight veteran educated in survival expertise, was believed to have been noticed by one other hiker on or round June 10. Authorities have additionally stated he might have fled to Canada after he allegedly searched “find out how to relocate to Canada” on-line, in line with a U.S. Marshals Service affidavit obtained by PEOPLE.

In keeping with the press launch, Kittitas County authorities, together with human stays detection canine, searched the Crystal Creek Drainage from the enchantments out to Ingalls Creek final week. There may be additionally a plan to ship out search and rescue groups to scour the our bodies of water close to the crime scene, authorities stated.

“At the moment we don’t have any proof to counsel Mr. Decker is alive, or deceased,” the press launch states. “Till he’s taken into custody, or recovered, we are going to proceed these efforts.”