Former FBI agent: ‘The ball was dropped’ in Travis Decker search
Sep 20, 2025, 5:00 AM
Human remains discovered in the Cascade Mountains may be of Travis Decker, the Army veteran accused of killing his three young daughters earlier this summer.
Authorities said the remains were found less than a mile from the campground where the murders occurred, a haunting development in a case that has devastated the Pacific Northwest.
Jennifer Coffindaffer, a former FBI Special Agent and law and justice contributor for NewsNation, joined “Seattle Morning News” on KIRO Newsradio to explain why the search took so long.
“To me, the ball was dropped a bit in this,” Coffinadaffer said. “The grid search was probably not properly conducted from a law enforcement perspective.”
Watch the full conversation in the video above.
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