Hey, everyone. Welcome back to Crime Weekly News. I'm Derek Levasser.

And I'm Stephanie Harlow.

We have a sad one this week. It's making national headlines as it should.

Three little girls left for a weekend visit with their father and never came home.

The search for Travis Decker, a former Army Ranger with elite survival training, has become a statewide manhunt.

Authorities warn he's dangerous, potentially armed,

and capable of surviving off the grid for weeks. But long before this turned into a national

manhunt, there were warning signs, a better custody dispute, a man unraveling, and a court

system that failed to intervene. By the time the alarm bells rang, it was already too late. And this, unfortunately,

is not the first time we've heard of a case like this. And everyone's been DMing us about it,

tagging us in it. There was a video that I reposted on Twitter of the three beautiful young girls

who had their lives taken by the scumbag monster. I reposted the article originally when it first came out.

And so this is a combination of a bolo, you know, a be on the lookout for this guy.

We want him brought to justice as quickly as possible.

Although I don't know if that's going to happen and we'll get into that in a couple of minutes.

But Stephanie, what are your initial thoughts? Well, I just posted a video about this case over the weekend um so

I'm I'm pretty well versed in it and up to date I obviously he's he's on the loose no one it knows where

he is but let me give you a few details of the case. The three little girls that we're

talking about are five-year-old Olivia Decker, eight-year-old Evelyn Decker, and nine-year-old

Peyton Decker, and all three attended Lincoln Elementary School in the Wenatche School District,

which is in Washington State. So what seems to have happened here is Travis and his

wife Whitney had gone through a divorce a few years prior. He had visitation with the girls. So he would

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