Overview
- Search in Idaho’s Sawtooth National Forest was suspended after investigators located a hiker whose height, beard and tattoos matched Decker’s but confirmed he was not the suspect.
- Manhunt now centers on Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest and surrounding remote areas in Washington, with U.S. Marshals Service teams joined by state and local agencies.
- Decker, a former Army soldier facing first-degree murder and kidnapping charges in his daughters’ deaths, is considered armed, dangerous and trained in off-grid survival.
- Key forensic evidence, including DNA from blood on Decker’s truck and a medical examiner’s finding of homicide by suffocation, underpins the case against him.
- The U.S. Marshals Service maintains a reward of up to $20,000 for information leading to Decker’s capture and urges the public to report credible tips.