A law enforcement expert has revealed why he believes alleged killer dad Travis Decker is still alive – despite police considering the possibility he died on the run. 

The 33-year-old Army veteran has been missing for a month and stands accused of murdering his three young daughters – Paityn, 9, Evelyn, 8, and Olivia, 5 – before dumping their bodies near Washington’s Rock Island Campground. 

Last week, officials from the Kittitas County Sherriff’s Office (KCSO), said the fugitive may be dead, which may be why he has not been found yet. 

But law enforcement and security analyst Todd McGhee told ABC he believes Decker is still out there because canines have ‘not picked up on any type of cadaver or any type of presence of a deceased body.’

‘Canines are trained to look for cadavers and sniff for those types of odors, so he’s still maybe on the move,’ McGhee, a former Massachusetts state trooper, told the outlet. 

He even speculated that Decker has fled the country – citing the wanted man’s Google searches of ‘how does a person move to Canada’ and ‘how to relocate to Canada’ from before his disappearance. 

Decker’s extensive military background has enabled him to effectively dodge detection, McGhee said, noting the accused-killer’s ability to ‘navigate with limited resources in the wilderness.’ 

But McGhee said despite Decker’s best efforts, he will likely resurface at one point or another. 

A law enforcement expert has revealed why he believes alleged killer dad Travis Decker (pictured) is still alive – despite police considering the possibility he died on the run

The 33-year-old Army veteran has been missing for a month and stands accused of murdering his three young daughters – Paityn, 9, Evelyn, 8, and Olivia, 5 (pictured)

Law enforcement and security analyst Todd McGhee (pictured) believes Decker is alive because no canines have detected his dead body

‘He’ll eventually have to surface through seeking shelter, seeking food, nutrition – those types of things will require him to come out of hiding and, to some degree, expose himself to the general public,’ he told ABC. 

‘I’m confident that something should reveal itself as far as a resolution as to where his existence is and hopefully a capture and an arrest.’ 

This expert opinion comes as investigators have admitted that no DNA evidence from the extensive search – now focused in the Teanaway Valley, Liberty, Lauderdale and Blewett Pass areas – has matched Decker. 

Authorities said some of their search resources have been ‘redirected to find and recover’ Decker’s corpse, with Chelan County Sheriff Mike Morrison confirming the use of cadaver dogs in these efforts. 

Tactical teams have scoured the mountains near the city of Leavenworth for weeks, but there has been no evidence of Decker in the area, according to an update from Morrison on Friday. 

‘We do have some items that have come back from the scene, that have come back to match the DNA that we have for what we believe to be Travis’s DNA,’ he said, per KIRO7.

‘But no other DNA that’s come back to show anyone else was on scene. Nothing in the mountains.’

Decker has been missing since May 30, when he failed to return the three little girls back to their mother Whitney after a visit. 

On June 2, a search party led to the chilling discovery of the sisters’ dead bodies near Rock Island Campground (pictured) in Chelan County along with Decker’s truck

Decker has been missing since May 30, when he failed to return the three little girls back to Whitney after a visit 

An autopsy revealed the girls died from suffocation and police reported their wrists were zip-tied and plastic bags were over their heads when they were found (pictured: Paityn Decker)

Whitney, who is divorced from the veteran, told police that he had picked the girls up around 5pm but had not returned them by 8pm, and his phone went straight to voicemail, court documents said.

Detectives said she ‘expressed concern because Decker reportedly has never done this before and … is currently experiencing some mental health issues.’

She also told law enforcement officials that Decker was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder and believes he did not take medication for the condition, according to court documents.

He was court-mandated to seek out mental heath and domestic violence anger management counseling, but refused treatment. 

At the time of his disappearance and his daughters’ deaths, Decker was living out of a white 2017 GMC Sierra pickup truck, police said. 

‘He clearly had some sort of break and everything that he had been living with, everything that had been bottled up inside of him for so long as far as trauma, just won out,’ Whitney’s lawyer, Arianna Cozart, previously told the Seattle Times. 

On June 2, a search party led to the chilling discovery of the sisters’ dead bodies near Rock Island Campground in Chelan County along with Decker’s truck.

Deputies found the girls’ bodies about 75 to 100 yards from Decker’s truck. 

Decker (pictured) was court-mandated to seek out mental heath and domestic violence anger management counseling, but refused treatment 

Whitney (pictured with her daughters) told police that Decker had picked the girls up around 5pm but had not returned them by 8pm, and his phone went straight to voicemail 

An autopsy revealed the girls died from suffocation and police reported their wrists were zip-tied and plastic bags were over their heads when they were found, court documents said. 

Police collected ‘a large amount of evidence’ from the truck, including male blood and non-human blood. 

The alleged-killer’s dog was found nearby as well and taken to an animal humane society, Fox 8 reported. 

Chilling audio from just months before the harrowing murders captured the fugitive father begging for more custody time to go camping with his daughters. 

In the recording from a September 2024 custody hearing, Decker makes an eerie promise that no harm would come to the girls if he’s given more time to take them camping in Washington’s wilderness.

With an extensive combat background, authorities and locals have been concerned about Decker being on the loose.  

He joined the Army in 2013, serving in Afghanistan before transferring to the Washington National Guard in 2021, Karina Shagren, communications director for the Washington Military Department, confirmed to the Daily Mail.

He was a full-time member of the Guard until 2023 or 2024, when he switched to part-time.

Police release images of accused child killer Decker (pictured) as they believe the ‘dangerous’ suspect may have changed his appearance to dodge detection

Chelan County Sheriff Mike Morrison (pictured) announced the deployment of canines to find Decker’s body last week

Decker stopped attending mandatory monthly drills a little over a year ago, and the Guard was in the process of a disciplinary discharge.

He likely has advanced combat training and was an airborne paratrooper who earned the elite rank of ‘Ranger,’ indicating he would have excellent wilderness and survival skills, Fox 13 Seattle reported, citing social media posts.

Decker is charged with three counts of first-degree murder and first-degree kidnapping.