3 Sisters Who Vanished During 'Planned Visitation' with Dad Are Dead — and He's Still Missing: Police

The three young sisters who were last seen on Friday, May 30, after leaving their Washington State home for a “planned visitation” with their father have been found dead.

Paityn Decker, 9, Evelyn Decker, 8, and Olivia Decker, 5, were found dead on Monday, June 2, at 3:45 p.m. after authorities located their father’s car near the Rock Island Campground in Chelan County, Wash., the Wenatchee Police Department said in a press release on Tuesday, June 3. Police did not share their causes of death or the exact location of where their bodies were found.

Their father, 32-year-old Travis Decker, was not located at the scene and remains missing, according to police. Police said Decker is now wanted on three counts of first-degree murder and one count of kidnapping.

“It is unknown whether Decker is currently armed, but he may pose a significant risk, if approached,” police said, adding that the father has former military experience.

The girls had left Friday, May 30 with Decker, who also has a warrant out for his arrest on custodial interference charges. The Wenatchee Police Department previously said Decker is “homeless and living in his vehicle or at various hotels/motels or at campgrounds in the area.”

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“The visitation was part of a parenting plan, but he has since gone outside the parameters of it, which is not normal and cause for the alarm,” the police department further said, adding that the father could not be contacted after the girls did not return on time.

Police shared photos of the sisters and said they are “believed to be missing and unable to return home on their own” as they asked for public assistance in locating them.

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On Saturday, May 31, the day after the sisters were last seen, Washington State Patrol issued an endangered missing person alert, declared the girls and their father “at-risk/missing,” and shared a photo of their dad’s 2017 white GMC Sierra pickup truck with the license plate D20165C.

Then on Monday, June 2, Washington State Patrol announced the cancellation of the endangered missing persons alert for the Decker sisters. At the time, it wasn’t immediately clear what changed in the investigation. PEOPLE earlier reached out to police for further comment.

Anyone with information on Decker’s whereabouts is asked to call 911. He stands at 5 foot 8 inches tall and weighs 190 lbs., police said. He was last seen wearing a light shirt and dark shorts.