A mother whose three daughters were allegedly suffocated to death by their father has broken her silence as her Army veteran ex-husband remains of the run.
Whitney Decker believes ‘something broke inside’ of her ex-husband Travis Decker and that he ‘would not have done what he did if he was himself’, her attorney revealed in a heartbreaking statement early Thursday morning.
‘He clearly had some sort of break and everything that he had been living with, everything that had been bottled up inside of him for so long as far as trauma, just won out,’ Whitney’s attorney Arianna Cozart told the Seattle Times.
Decker is wanted on suspicion of murder of his daughters Paityn, nine, Evelyn, eight, and Olivia, five, in Wenatchee, Washington State.
He has not been seen since he picked up his three little girls for a three-hour visit on Friday. Whitney later reported them missing.
Their bodies were found at a campsite in Leavenworth, 20 miles from their home, on Monday. Their wrists had been bound with zip ties and each of them had been suffocated with a plastic bag.
Decker, an Afghanistan veteran with extensive commando training, vanished into the woods and remains on the run. He is considered dangerous, given his extensive military training and propensity for violence.
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