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Travis Decker Caught on Cam Acting Unhinged Days Before Fugitive Father Smothered his 3 Daughters| Crime Alert 6AM 07.17.2025 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime al art, I mean see grace breaking crime. The
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  Speaker 1: is now our Jennifer Gould standing by Jennifer Nancy.
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  Speaker 2: A father's chilling unraveling has been caught on camera. Just
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  Speaker 2: three days before Travis Decker allegedly murdered his three young daughters.
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  Speaker 2: A newly released dash cam video shows the Washington State
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  Speaker 2: dad acting like a man on the very edge during
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  Speaker 2: a bizarre roadside encounter. The May twenty seventh footage from
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  Speaker 2: the Wenatchee Police officer Timothy Jeffreys cruiser captures Decker, thirty two,
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  Speaker 2: in the aftermath of a minor car crash, but it's
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  Speaker 2: his unsettling behavior that truly alarms. He's seen pestering the
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  Speaker 2: other driver, reportedly with obsessive questions, repeating quote are U
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  Speaker 2: okay at least six times in under two minutes despite
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  Speaker 2: being reassured. According to King Fi TV, his reported disjointed
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  Speaker 2: responses mumbling about quote needing to get some where end quote,
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  Speaker 2: and blank stares paint a portrait of a man spiraling
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  Speaker 2: before the unthinkable crime that shattered a community. The driver
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  Speaker 2: Decker crashed into told King TV off camera that Decker
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  Speaker 2: appeared quote nervous and fidgety. End quote, and kept telling
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  Speaker 2: him quote not to call police end quote. He even
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  Speaker 2: described Decker's body language is quote intimidating, and his handshake,
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  Speaker 2: which lasted nine seconds, as quote tight. The man stated
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  Speaker 2: he quote could tell he was not in his full
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  Speaker 2: senses end quote, and that Decker admitted he quote feared
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  Speaker 2: going to jail end quote. Decker was cited for driving
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  Speaker 2: without insurance, and authorities also noted he'd left the scene
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  Speaker 2: of a separate crash on May fourth. Then on May thirtieth,
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  Speaker 2: a mere three days after this unsettling interaction, Decker picked
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  Speaker 2: up his daughters, Peyton nine, Evelyn eight, and Olivia five
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  Speaker 2: for a court ordered visitation. He never returned them to
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  Speaker 2: their distraught mom, Whitney Decker, sparking an immediate missing person's report.
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  Speaker 2: Then on June second, the unthinkable occurred. The girl's small,
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  Speaker 2: lifeless bodies were discovered near Decker's abandoned truck at Rock
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  Speaker 2: Island Campground in Shellan County, roughly seventy five to one
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  Speaker 2: hundred yards down an embankment. Autopsies delivered the grim truth
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  Speaker 2: the girls died of asphyxiation with plastic bags over their heads,
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  Speaker 2: and at least one with her wrists zip tied. Two
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  Speaker 2: bloody handprints were also on the tailgate of his truck.
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  Speaker 2: DNA confirmed it was Decker's cementing his presence at the
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  Speaker 2: crime scene. Decker, an Army veteran with survivalist training who
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  Speaker 2: had recently researched moving to Canada and Canadian jobs, vanished
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  Speaker 2: into the rugged terrain, triggering a massive manhunt now dragging
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  Speaker 2: into its seventh week near Sheland County Sheriff Mike Morrison
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  Speaker 2: at a previous news conference, He's going to have to
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  Speaker 2: aim for perfection. He's not going to be able to
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  Speaker 2: make a mistake, because all we need is one mistake
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  Speaker 2: and one day to go in our favor, and he's
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  Speaker 2: going to be in our custody. The US Marshall Service,
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  Speaker 2: alongside a formidable coalition of local, state, and federal agencies,
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  Speaker 2: has scoured hundreds of square miles of unforgiving terrain. A
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  Speaker 2: June tenth siding near Blue At Pass, based on hiker's
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  Speaker 2: reports of a lone, disheveled man avoiding contact, raised hopes,
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  Speaker 2: but searches yielded nothing. A July fifth tip in Idaho's
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  Speaker 2: Sawtooth National Forest led to a lookalike hiker later cleared,
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  Speaker 2: stalling that lead officials note no certain evidence confirming Decker
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  Speaker 2: is alive, and cadaver dogs have now joined the effort.
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  Speaker 2: Decker is described as white, five foot eight, one hundred
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  Speaker 2: and ninety pounds, with black hair and brown eyes. He
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  Speaker 2: is considered armed and dangerous. Whitney Decker described her ex
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  Speaker 2: husband as experiencing mental health issues and being homeless at
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  Speaker 2: the time. She also stated through her attorney, she wants
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  Speaker 2: the fugitive father found dead or alive for closure. A
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  Speaker 2: twenty thousand dollars reward is offered for information leading to
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  Speaker 2: his capture. Contact the US Marshals at five zero nine,
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  Speaker 2: nine two, five eight, five three four or nine one
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  Speaker 2: one for the latest on this case. Watch Crime Stories
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  Speaker 1: Thanks, Jennifer. More crime and justice news after this.
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  Speaker 2: In a stomach churning betrayal, two Florida women allegedly applied
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  Speaker 2: a juvenile girl with alcohol declared she was quote going
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  Speaker 2: to become a woman tonight end quote and then orchestrated
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  Speaker 2: her rape by a fifteen year old boy. Sandra Suarez Ramirez,
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  Speaker 2: thirty three, and Jenessa Pierce, thirty four, now face a
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  Speaker 2: litany of charges for their alleged roles in the depraved scheme.
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  Speaker 2: Detailed by the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office, the horrific incident
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  Speaker 2: unfolded at a home in Big Compet, Key. According to police,
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  Speaker 2: Ramirez and Pierce deliberately coerced the underage victim into downing
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  Speaker 2: shots of alcohol from the bottle, systematically impairing her ability
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  Speaker 2: to resist. The chilling prelude allegedly set the stage for
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  Speaker 2: the unthinkable. Police say the woman's actions directly facilitated the crime,
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  Speaker 2: allowing Pierce's younger brother, a fifteen year old, to then
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  Speaker 2: rape the victim. The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office, taking over
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  Speaker 2: the investigation due to jurisdictional ties, swiftly moved to arrest
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  Speaker 2: Ramirez and Pierce. They were initially charged with john neglect,
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  Speaker 2: with additional charges of child abuse and contributing to the
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  Speaker 2: delinquency of a minor. Following authorities are also considering further
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  Speaker 2: charges related to sexual assault. Facilitation as the investigation continues.
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  Speaker 2: The juvenile suspect, whose identity is protected due to his age,
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  Speaker 2: faces rape charges and is being processed through the juvenile
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  Speaker 2: justice system. Ramirez and Peers are currently held at the
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  Speaker 2: Maricopa County Jail, both on a ten thousand dollars bond.
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  Speaker 2: The investigation remains ongoing, and finally, imagine your heart seizing
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  Speaker 2: as the police department calls, only to have your terror
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  Speaker 2: turned to sickening rage when the voice on the other
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  Speaker 2: end delivers not a warning but a vile, twisted insult.
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  Speaker 2: This nightmare became chilling reality for Ohio resident Karen Clinton,
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  Speaker 2: leading to the sensational arrest of a former nine to
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  Speaker 2: one to one dispatcher now facing criminal charges for a
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  Speaker 2: cruel and shocking phone call. Loretta Nash, a former Twinsburg
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  Speaker 2: Police Department dispatcher, is now facing telecommunications harassment charges after
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  Speaker 2: allegedly hitting Karen with a call designed to harass, intimidate,
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  Speaker 2: or abuse. The city wasted no time confirming Nash is
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  Speaker 2: no longer employed Swift Justice for an incident that has
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  Speaker 2: shaken community trust in its emergency services. The disturbing call
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  Speaker 2: began with classic police formality quote Karen, it's the Twinsburg
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  Speaker 2: Police Department calling. Can I have your attention? End quote?
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  Speaker 2: But then the prank turns to punishment. Nash allegedly told
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  Speaker 2: Clinton she'd quote won a prize end quote for her
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  Speaker 2: whopping one hundred and eighty three calls over fifteen years,
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  Speaker 2: the grand prize. Take a listen, So you wouldn't the prize.
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  Speaker 2: It's called the Booby Prize. You are the dumbest person
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  Speaker 2: to call this police department on a repeated basis, So
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  Speaker 2: thank you for being arrested this city and have a
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  Speaker 2: wonderful light. Clinton, a former nine to one to one
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  Speaker 2: dispatcher herself, was left stunned and emotionally shattered. She immediately
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  Speaker 2: reported the malicious mouthful to city Hall, sitting in motion
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  Speaker 2: the investigation that led to Nash's downfall. Nash pleaded not
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  Speaker 2: guilty and is out on bond, with her trial set
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  Speaker 2: for September. This phone drama definitely far from over, Nancy.
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