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Seattle – Authorities say they believe that they noticed Travis Decker, a former soldier who wanted to u The death of his three daughtersNear the remote Alpine Lake in Washington, after receiving the top from the mountaineers who said they saw a lonely person that seems badly prepared for conditions.

The Sheriff’s Office in District Chelan said in a Facebook post on the tracking teams responded immediately, and the helicopter crew noticed a mountainar near Colchuk Lake, in the popular part of the cascade range.

Outside of trail He ran out of sight while the helicopter passed, Sheriff’s office said. The teams later found a clue, and teams K-9 followed the person on the area of ​​Ingalls Creek Trailhead, south of Leavenworth.

Authorities did not say when they spotted the subject, but at the end of the night, the inhabitants of the inhabitants were issued in Ingalls Creek and Valleyhi community to lock homes and vehicles and be in search of rats.

Decker (32) is the target of the Great Mančan from 2. June, when the sheriff’s deputy found his own truck and bodies of his three daughter – a 9-year Paityn Decker and a 5-year-old deception olivia – at the outer Leavth.

He failed to return the girls to his mother’s home in Wenatchee, about 100 miles (160 kilometers) east of the seat, after the scheduled visit three days earlier.

Decker was Infantry in the US Army from March 2013. until 2021. year and arranged in Afghanistan four months in 2014. Years. He has training in navigation, survival and other skills, authorities said. He once spent more than two months living in fears from the grid.

Officials with a number of state and federal agencies search hundreds of square kilometers, most of both mountain and remote, land, water and air. The services of American marshals offered a reward for up to $ 20,000 for information leading to its capture.

Last September, his ex-wife, Whitney Decker, wrote to change his parents’ plan to worsen his issues and became more unstable, often live from his truck. She tried to limit him to pass him into visits to their daughters until he found housing.

An autopsy on Friday determined the cause of death to suffocate, Sheriff’s Office said. The girls were tied with a zipper and had plastic bags per head.