Family Court Corruption - Travis Decker Had NO Business Around Those Kids - Expert Analysis
Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary
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🗓️ 17 June 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Description: The Travis Decker triple murder case exposes shocking corruption and negligence within the family court system that prioritized a dangerous father's rights over three children's lives. Expert psychotherapist Shavaun Scott delivers a devastating analysis of how family court officials enabled Travis Decker's access to Olivia, Evelyn, and Paityn despite overwhelming evidence that he posed a deadly threat to his own daughters.
This explosive investigation reveals how Travis Decker manipulated family court proceedings while planning the murders of his children. Despite being homeless, mentally ill, violent, and exhibiting dangerous behavioral patterns, court officials continued granting custody visits that ultimately facilitated this preventable tragedy. Our expert analysis exposes the systemic corruption that allows dangerous parents to maintain access to vulnerable children through legal loopholes and inadequate safety assessments.
Shavaun Scott breaks down the psychological profile of Travis Decker, revealing warning signs that any competent mental health professional should have identified as high-risk indicators for familicide. We examine how custody evaluators failed in their duty to protect children, how judges ignored clear danger signals, and how the entire family court apparatus prioritized parental rights over child welfare with deadly consequences.
The case reveals fundamental flaws in how family courts assess parental fitness, particularly involving parents with military backgrounds, PTSD, and documented mental health struggles. We analyze the specific decisions that enabled Decker's access to his victims and explore how family court corruption continues to endanger children nationwide. This comprehensive examination includes expert recommendations for urgent reforms needed to prevent similar tragedies and hold judicial officials accountable for their failures.
Our investigation exposes how Travis Decker should never have been granted unsupervised access to his daughters and why the family court system failed in its most basic duty: protecting innocent children from harm.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers with Tony Bruske. |
| 0:03.2 | Here now, Tony Bruske. |
| 0:06.5 | This is someone who was supposed to go get help. |
| 0:12.6 | He was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder. |
| 0:15.3 | We've talked about that a gazillion times, |
| 0:16.7 | if anybody who listens to the show knows. |
| 0:19.9 | He had PTSD. |
| 0:22.9 | He was diagnosed with a sloth of other things. |
| 0:26.0 | And he didn't go get any help. |
| 0:27.7 | There's no proof for knowledge that we know that he was taking his meds or on his meds. |
| 0:31.4 | We know he did not go to the counseling sessions he was supposed to go to. |
| 0:35.8 | Not that, you know, a couple of them is going to do a whole lot for somebody |
| 0:38.9 | with this severe of problems. |
| 0:41.4 | But at the end of the day, he's living out of his truck, |
| 0:45.0 | and the court is still saying, |
| 0:47.8 | yeah, you should go have parental rights |
| 0:50.4 | to go be with these three little girls. |
| 0:55.2 | Again, it's just what the hell is going on here? |
| 1:00.0 | What the bar is so low to have to be able to be with your kids just because there's this romanticized |
| 1:09.2 | idea that every parent just loves their kids unconditionally |
| 1:11.9 | and la la lot no they don't um the ultimately the the biggest safeguard that we have in this broken |
| 1:19.5 | system because of everything you just described we don't have the staffing we don't have the child |
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