FBI searches area around campground where Travis Decker's 3 daughters were found dead
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The FBI on Monday launched a two-day search through dense and rugged terrain in Washington state in the hopes of finding clues to the whereabouts of Travis Decker nearly three months after he allegedly killed his three young daughters.

Investigators still have no evidence about whether Decker is alive or dead, Chelan County Sheriff Mike Morrison and Peter Orth, the FBI’s supervisory senior resident agent in Yakima, said during a news conference Monday.

“You can’t be too thorough in a search like this,” Orth said. “It is such incredibly dense vegetation that anybody who walks down one of these trails could walk 10 meters off the trail and no one would ever know they’re there.”

Decker, a former and trained military survivalist, has been wanted since June 2, when the bodies of his three daughters – Paityn, 9, Evelyn, 8, and Olivia, 5 – were discovered at the Rock Island Campground in the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest.

Morrison said that if Decker is still alive in the wilderness, he believes he must be “pretty tired by now.”

“He’s got to be perfect every single day; we just have to be perfect once,” Morrison said.

FBI Seattle ground search

About 100 FBI agents and other law enforcement launched a two-day search for Travis Decker on Monday, authorities said. (FBI via AP)

Authorities confirmed last week that Decker is the sole suspect in the alleged murders, saying that his DNA was found at the crime scene. No additional DNA profiles were detected.  

“If it’s not me wearing this uniform, it’ll be another Chelan County Sheriff … We will find him, in one fashion or another,” Morrison said.

The U.S. Marshals Service is offering a reward of up to $20,000 for information leading to Decker’s capture.

Fox News Digital’s Julia Bonavita and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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