Fugitive dad Travis Decker heard in new audio before allegedly murdering 3 daughters

New audio from a household tribunal proceeding shows Travis Decker pleading with a justice to fto him walk much clip with his 3 daughters, who he's accused of killing.

The bodies of Decker's 3 daughters, Paityn, 9, Evelyn, 8, and Olivia, 5, were recovered successful a wooded country astir 30 miles from Rock Island Campground successful Washington, according to the Chelan County Sheriff's Office successful a statement. Federal authorities took implicit the hunt connected June 8 aft section officials said they needed assistance. Decker is simply a erstwhile Army worker with "extensive" training.

"We had reached a constituent wherever we request to remainder our section resources," the connection said. "However, CCSO enactment remains intimately progressive successful hunt coordination and continues their pb with the transgression investigation."

According to Fox 13, Decker's visitation clip with the 3 girls had been reduced successful caller years. Whitney, Decker's ex-wife, and her lawyer cited alleged endangerment of the 3 children, declining intelligence wellness and deficiency of connection successful their petition to alteration Travis' visitation time.

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Travis Decker, left, is wanted for 3 counts of execution and kidnapping aft his 3 young daughters were recovered dead. (Wenatchee Police Department)

During a household tribunal proceeding successful September 2024, a household tribunal justice allowed Whitney to instrumentality near-full custody of the girls, alleging neglect and affectional distress. Travis was allowed to sojourn the children each different play for a acceptable fig of hours.

Decker expressed vexation with the parenting program and told the household tribunal justice he'd similar to spot his daughters more.

"I already lone get a time and a half, 2 days, with my daughters, and it's 2 nights. It's a Friday night, Saturday night, and due to the fact that of my existent occupation and the existent location, I'm successful Idaho working. I americium successful the U.S. [Carpenter's Union], truthful wherever I go, wherever the enactment is, is wherever I come, and done the caller parenting plan, it takes distant fundamentally each my opportunities to beryllium astir the girls erstwhile I'm not astatine work. If I person the accidental to beryllium determination for my daughters, I consciousness similar I should beryllium capable to beryllium determination for them and not person to find my mode to beryllium astir my daughters," Decker said.

Decker's children were allegedly heard crying implicit the telephone with their parent during an overnight travel with their begetter astatine the Wenatchee armory, according to tribunal records. The incidental was cited with others arsenic reasons wherefore Decker shouldn't beryllium allowed to support the kids overnight.

"I don't judge that my weekends should beryllium wholly taken distant since I person been gone. Every clip I've had the girls, we person been successful campsites, successful nationalist forests and paid campsites that person campers. We've ne'er done thing that was unsafe oregon thing I wouldn't privation to enactment myself in," Decker told the judge.

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Travis Decker (Courtesy of Chelan County Sheriff's Office)

After the justice signed disconnected connected the parenting program that reduced the clip Decker would walk with his daughters, helium continued to inquire for a antithetic outcome.

"And past thing tin alteration that? Nothing, my signature doesn't substance anyway, right? So if I don't motion it, past ..." Decker said.

When Decker didn't driblet the girls disconnected by the 8 p.m. curfew connected May 30, Whitney tried calling him, but helium didn't prime up, according to an affidavit. According to the tribunal document, Decker had ne'er missed a curfew to instrumentality the children.

The tribunal documents indicated Decker had mental health issues and borderline property disorder, adding helium is stateless and lives successful campgrounds and motels.

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Travis Decker was believed to beryllium surviving retired of his pickup truck. (Wenatchee Police Department)

Decker was charged with 3 counts of aggravated first-degree execution and kidnapping.

Fox News Digital's Julia Bonavita and Sarah Rumpf-Whitten contributed to this report.