CHELAN COUNTY, Wash. — A protection order petition filed by the mother of three murdered Wenatchee girls exposes the escalating behavior of Travis Decker in the weeks before their disappearance.
The June 3 court filing details Decker’s unraveling behavior and provides the clearest timeline yet of events leading to the tragedy.
Whitney Decker described escalating incidents that prompted her protection request, “He had seemed better, then it seemed like things just started happening one after another.”
Workplace struggles intensified Decker’s decline. According to the document, he faced bullying and isolation from colleagues, creating such concern that his supervisor issued a warning about his mental state.
“His boss told him or told me that he had talked to Travis on Friday and he seemed like he was on the brink of something really extreme,” the petition states.
The document reveals Decker had received daily counseling from a Georgia pastor for months, speaking several hours each day.
Four weeks before the murders, he abruptly ended these phone calls.
Court docs say a car wreck the week before the girls’ disappearance triggered more erratic behavior.
The new document states Decker called the children afterward, telling them “he was going to jail.” He then appeared at Whitney’s doorstep to apologize.
There is a specific reference to the divorced couple’s marriage anniversary, and Travis’s attempt to repair the marriage in that week before.
“Last week he tried to reconcile our marriage and had even made comments to the girls about him moving back in, and I rejected his advancements,” Whitney wrote.
The document describes multiple calls Decker made to his brother who he had not spoken to in years, attempting to reconcile that relationship. He also made a call to his father.
Authorities are continuing the search for Decker and anyone with information is asked to call 911.
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