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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🗓️ 17 July 2025
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Chilling new dashcam video has been released showing fugitive child-killer father Travis Decker behaving erratically...days before he allegedly snuffed the life out of his 3 daughters. A pair of women in Florida allegedly forced a teen to drink alcohol & then set her up to be raped by one of the suspect's brothers. Plus, a 911 dispatcher's prank, ends with her in the clink! Jennifer Gould reports.
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| 0:00.0 | Crime Alert. I'm Nancy Grace. Breaking crime news now. Our Jennifer Gould standing by Jennifer. |
| 0:07.1 | Nancy, a father's chilling and ravelling has been caught on camera. Just three days before, |
| 0:12.4 | Travis Decker allegedly murdered his three young daughters. A newly released dash cam video shows |
| 0:18.9 | the Washington State Dad acting like a man on the very edge |
| 0:23.0 | during a bizarre roadside encounter. The May 27th footage from the Wenatchie police officer |
| 0:29.9 | Timothy Jeffries Cruiser captures Decker 32 in the aftermath of a minor car crash, but it's his unsettling behavior that truly alarms. |
| 0:42.3 | He's seen pestering the other driver reportedly with obsessive questions, repeating, |
| 0:47.4 | quote, are you okay at least six times in under two minutes, despite being reassured, according to King 5 TV. |
| 0:55.6 | His reported disjointed responses mumbling about, quote, needing to get somewhere, unquote, |
| 1:01.0 | and blank stares paint a portrait of a man spiraling before the unthinkable crime that shattered a community. |
| 1:09.3 | The driver, Decker crashed and two told King TV off camera that Decker |
| 1:14.0 | appeared, quote, nervous and fidgety, end quote, and kept telling him, quote, not to call police, end quote. |
| 1:20.2 | He even described Decker's body language as, quote, intimidating and his handshake, which lasted nine |
| 1:26.7 | seconds as, quote, tight. |
| 1:28.9 | The man stated he, quote, could tell he was not in his full senses, end quote, and that Decker admitted he, quote, feared going to jail, end quote. |
| 1:38.7 | Decker was cited for driving without insurance and authorities also noted he'd left the scene of a separate crash on May 4th. |
| 1:46.5 | Then on May 30th, a mere three days after this unsettling interaction, Decker picked up his |
| 1:53.3 | daughters, Peyton, 9, Evelyn, 8, and Olivia 5 for a court-ordered visitation. |
| 2:00.5 | He never returned them to their distraught mom, |
| 2:02.9 | Whitney Decker, sparking an immediate missing persons report. Then on June 2nd, the |
| 2:08.9 | unthinkable occurred. The girl's small lifeless bodies were discovered near Decker's |
| 2:14.3 | abandoned truck at Rock Island Campground in Chelan County, roughly 75 to 100 yards |
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