TRAVIS DECKER CASE: Judge Ignored Mom's Warnings - Three Children Lost Their Lives
Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary
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3 • 791 Ratings
🗓️ 23 June 2025
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Episode Description: Whitney Decker did everything right. She documented her ex-husband's homelessness, his mental health struggles, his medication non-compliance. She petitioned the court. She warned of danger. The judge ignored every red flag and granted Travis Decker unsupervised overnight visits anyway. This episode of Hidden Killers delves deep into the Travis Decker case, exposing how Colorado's family court system catastrophically failed three innocent girls. Despite Travis being diagnosed with PTSD and borderline personality disorder, living without stable housing, and refusing treatment, the court prioritized his parental rights over the children's safety. We examine the 1970's legal precedent that still governs modern custody decisions, the myth of judicial accountability, and the impossible position protective parents face when court orders endanger their children. Legal analyst Eric Faddis provides expert commentary on what went wrong and what must change. This heartbreaking case reveals a pattern of systemic failures that continue putting children at risk across America. Essential listening for parents in custody disputes, legal professionals, and anyone fighting for family court reform.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers with Tony Brewski. |
| 0:05.2 | The last photo Whitney Decker has of her daughters. |
| 0:09.7 | It shows three smiling little girls and matching sun dresses. |
| 0:16.2 | Peyton 9 stands tall and protective beside her younger sister. |
| 0:22.7 | Evelyn Eight grins with a missing front tooth. |
| 0:27.2 | Little Olivia, just five, clutches a stuffed unicorn. |
| 0:32.6 | It was taken two weeks prior to their father, taking their lives. |
| 0:39.9 | On May 30th of 2025, Travis Decker arrived for his court-ordered Friday visitation, |
| 0:46.1 | three hours unsupervised despite his homelessness, despite his untreated mental illness, |
| 0:52.2 | despite Whitney's desperate petitions to the court, |
| 0:55.6 | we'll see you at eight. He said quietly, too quietly, Whitney would never see her children again, |
| 1:07.5 | because they never came home. |
| 1:16.1 | What followed was a cascade of systematic failures that would end with three small bodies discovered at Rock Island Campground near Leavenworth, Washington. |
| 1:20.8 | Plastic bags over their heads, zip ties, binding their wrists. |
| 1:26.3 | The medical examiner would rule it homicide by suffocation, |
| 1:29.9 | clinical words that can't capture the horror of a father systematically, |
| 1:35.0 | not aliveing his daughters. |
| 1:39.0 | But this isn't just a story about one man's evil. |
| 1:42.0 | It's about every institution that had the power to save |
| 1:46.9 | these children and chose not to. The family court that ignored the red flags, the Amber |
| 1:53.6 | Alert system that deemed them ineligible for protection, the military that abandoned a mentally |
| 2:00.1 | ill veteran, the law enforcement agencies that |
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