Horrifying Details: Decker Sisters Deaths-Bags on Heads, Hands Zip tied, Bloody Handprint!

Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan

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🗓️ 28 August 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

In a mystery that has captured national attention, Washington father Travis Decker picked up his three young daughters on May 30 for a "planned visitation," and never came back. The three girls -- Paityn Decker, 9; Evelyn Decker, 8; and Olivia Decker, 5 -- were found dead near a Washington state campground on June 2. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss the case that has one of the most shocking crime scenes of all time. Professor Morgan explains the forensic evidence left behind inside the bags and the bloody handprint on the truck. As of today, Travis Decker is still on the run, the lone suspect in the murder of his three little girls. Officials say anyone who sees Decker or knows of his whereabouts should call 911.

Transcribe Highlights
00:00.88 Introduction

02:06.17 The Murder of the Decker Sisters

05:11.48 Decker picked up his girls for visitation

10:08.63 Help is a two-way street

15:08.46 Search for Decker began June 2nd

20:04.96 Bloody handprint on tailgate of truck

24:56.48 Bags don't breathe

30:55.64 Passive Homicide

34:47.96 Decker has a decent level of training

40:04.66 Decker DNA found on the bags

45:24.15 Eric Robert Rudolph

49:27.37 Conclusion

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0:00.0	This is an IHeart podcast.
0:05.5	Bodybacks with Joseph Scott Moore.
0:10.4	Travel recommendation.
0:12.8	If you have never seen the cascades, get it on your list.
0:17.7	You got to go.
0:19.2	You just, you have to go. The Rockies are fine, but there's
0:22.5	something about being in the midst of the Cascade Range. You don't have to be in the midst
0:27.7	of it. You can be miles and miles and miles and miles away from it and still kind of be in it.
0:35.0	You can see them from such a great distance away. I remember the first
0:41.7	time that I flew in to Seattle and passed, I guess it's at Mount Hood, I think, coming in over
0:52.0	this thing, and I'd never seen anything like it in my life it's amazing
0:55.7	and essentially they're snow-capped dormant volcanoes but it's all the little hills that surround it as
1:02.9	well and those beautiful lush ever-green forest that go on like a carpet forever off into the distance.
1:13.9	It is certainly a beautiful place, and it has a particular smell about it.
1:18.7	When you're there underneath that canopy of evergreens,
1:22.1	it's sometimes you can almost catch a hint of Christmas even in the summertime.
1:28.7	It's the pine.
1:30.2	It's the cedars.
1:33.6	But today I want to talk about something that has come to my attention in the last three days across my desk, actually the last two days.
1:44.7	And it's the case that people have been talking about for a while, but there was really nothing there that I could hold forth on from a forensics perspective.
1:54.0	Now, there is, I'm talking about the murders of three precious little angels.
2:03.6	The Decker Sisters.
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