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Search for suspect Travis Decker underway in Idaho’s Sawtooth National Forest • Idaho Capital Sun [1]
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Date: 2025-07
Several law enforcement agencies have begun searching Idaho’s Sawtooth National Forest for Travis Caleb Decker, who is a suspect in the disappearance and death of his three children, after law enforcement officials received a tip that Decker may be in the area.
The U.S. Marshals Service is requesting assistance from members of the public who were in the Bear Creek area of the Sawtooth National Forest on or around July 5 who may have seen Decker.
On Saturday, the U.S. Marshals Service received a tip from a family recreating in the Bear Creek area that was consistent with Decker, according to press releases the U.S. Marshals Service issued Sunday and Monday.
The press release said the description of Decker is of a white man with a long ponytail, beard and overgrown mustache who stands between 5 feet, 8 inches tall and 5 feet, 10 inches tall. The man was said to be wearing black gauged earrings, a cream colored shirt, shorts, a black Jansport backpack, a black Garmin-style watch and either Converse or Vans shoes.
The U.S. Marshals Office said Decker is suspected of murder and kidnapping in Chelan County, Washington, after his children, ages 5, 8 and 9, were killed May 30.
Supervisory Deputy U.S. Marshal Eric Toms announced Sunday that agencies were teaming up to initiate a search for Decker in the Sawtooth National Forest after receiving the original tip on Saturday.
“This morning we began our joint search with the U.S. Forest Service, U.S. Marshal Fugitive Task Force, Camas County Sheriff’s Office of areas believed to be accessible to a person in Decker’s condition,” Toms wrote in a press release issued Monday. “We are canvassing local residents/campers and people in the area recreating. Decker has a history of hitch hiking – we would like to encourage the public to not pick up any hitchhikers.”
Anyone with information about Decker is asked to call the U.S. Marshals Service at 1-800-336-0102 or submit a tip online at www.usmarshals.gov/tips.
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