TRAVIS DECKER FOUND? BONES RECOVERED IN 100 DAY SEARCH!

Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan

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🗓️ 11 September 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

The search for Travis Decker began when he failed to return his three daughters to their mother after court ordered visitation. It took less than 72 hours to find the girls bodies, suffocated with bags over their heads in the campground area their homeless father called 'home'. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack update the story as bones have been discovered "in the area" where Decker allegedly killed his daughters.

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00:01.57 Introduction

05:05.93 Travis Decker is homeless living in a camp he made in the woods

09:30.35 The Decker girls bodies are found where there father was living

15:03.03 Bones found near Decker campsite

20:20.68 Why were bones found after three months of searching?

25:32.15 Suzanne Morphew bones were bleached white when found

30:42.68 Fractured, small parts of bone can be carried off my animals

35:22.50 Animal bones will be more robust than human bones

40:19.62 Decker used grocery bags around campsite, used to suffocate girls

45:21.88 Bones from big animals possible

49:12.12 Conclusion

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:05.5	Bodybacks with Joseph Scott Moore.
0:10.0	One of the more frustrating aspects in forensics is sometimes you're left wanting.
0:16.7	You don't necessarily have all of the answers that you might wish to have.
0:24.0	I'm sorry to inform you, but sometimes not all of the answers rest in science.
0:30.4	Now, we can back up things.
0:32.8	We can give you not just qualitative results, but also quantitative results.
0:39.4	But it still leaves us frustrated because we don't have that solid foundation many times to rest upon
0:46.5	that we can go back and definitively say something is concluded.
0:57.0	Some things are never concluded. Today we're going to talk about an update.
1:03.0	An update that we have in regards to the Travis Decker case.
1:09.0	More specifically, Travis Decker case. More specifically,
1:11.9	Travis Decker's murder,
1:15.0	allegedly, of his three daughters.
1:21.6	Coming to you from the beautiful campus of Jacksonville State University,
1:27.1	I'm Joseph Scott Morgan, and this is Bodybacks.
1:35.2	Dave, I have so many people that will approach me.
1:38.9	We just have gotten back from CromCon.
1:41.2	And again, we're faced many times with the why question. People want to
1:49.2	know why. Something has not been solved. Why the data that comes out doesn't necessarily marry up
1:57.8	with what they were perhaps predisposed in their thinking to.
2:04.4	And, you know, the beauty of science is that it, there's an elegance to it where it lays out.
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