{"id":63662,"date":"2025-06-09T08:49:22","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T08:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=63662"},"modified":"2025-06-09T08:49:22","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T08:49:22","slug":"mother-breaks-silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=63662","title":{"rendered":"Mother breaks silence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"373\" height=\"391\" src=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-344.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-63663\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-344.png 373w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-344-286x300.png 286w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 373px) 100vw, 373px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A Washington state mother is grieving the loss of her three daughters, allegedly murdered by their father, a former Army Ranger with a history of mental illness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whitney Decker says she knew her daughters\u2014Paityn, 9; Evelyn, 8; and Olivia, 5\u2014were in danger when their father, Travis Decker,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>failed to return them after a scheduled visit. Her pleas for an Amber Alert were denied, officials claiming the case didn\u2019t meet the criteria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Monday, the girls\u2019 bodies were discovered at a campground near Leavenworth. Their wrists were zip-tied,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>and they had been suffocated with plastic bags. Travis, 32, is now wanted for three counts of murder and<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>kidnapping. He remains at large and is considered highly dangerous due to his combat training and survival skills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Decker, a former paratrooper and Afghanistan veteran, had been diagnosed with borderline personality disorder and PTSD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His mental health had reportedly deteriorated following his separation from Whitney. She had voiced<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>concerns to the court months earlier about his unstable living conditions and unpredictable behavior during visitations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite this, Whitney had maintained that Decker loved the girls and had never failed to return them before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But she noted he seemed unusually quiet and detached when picking them up that Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Authorities found Decker\u2019s truck near the bodies, along with signs of a makeshift campsite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A $20,000 reward has been offered for information leading to his capture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=63653\">also read&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Washington state mother is grieving the loss of her three daughters, allegedly murdered by their father, a former Army Ranger with a history of mental illness&#8230;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63663,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63662"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63662"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63664,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63662\/revisions\/63664"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/63663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}