Ex-military father AT large after 3 daughters found dead in central Washington
Ex-military father AT large after 3 daughters found dead in central Washington
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Three girls are dead in central Washington, and the search is on for their father.
Wenatchee police say the girls’ mother called Friday saying they hadn’t returned from a custodial visit with their father, 32-year-old Travis Decker.
Horrific... I know he killed himself already. I know there is no real justice in this world. I can't stop my primal brain from wishing stringing him up by his feet and torturing him to death would bring those girls back or prevent others from doing the same. Edit: He ziptied thier hands and put plastic bags over their heads to suffocate them. This is not a mental health thing, this is an evil incarnate thing.
Family annihilators are almost always conservative men, and their reasoning invariably involves the belief that women and kids first and foremost exist at the pleasure of the patriarch. He was likely emasculated by his divorce.
this is an evil incarnate thing.
This is a human thing.
Infanticide of both kin and non kin is a rare but incredibly well documented part of our behavioral repertoire.
There's an urge to distance ourselves from someone who does this, to say that he is evil, a demon, not human. But he's us. In very specific and awful conditions, this is what we're capable of.
News has had a weird focus on state patrol not issuing an amber alert but I think the right time to intervene would have been when he failed to get an evaluation and counseling.
Even with mental health issues, I can’t understand how a person could kill children like that. Those poor girls and that poor mom.