A 32-year-old man from Washington state, a former U.S. Army soldier with “extensive training,” is on the run, accused in the gruesome murders of his three daughters, all under the age of 10, according to police and media reports.

On May 30, the girls’ mother told officials at the Wenatchee Police Department that her ex-husband, Travis Decker, failed to return with 9-year-old Paityn, 8-year-old Evelyn and 5-year-old Olivia after a planned visitation that day.

Additionally, calls to the 32-year-old's cellphone were going straight to voicemail.

Police in Wenatchee, a town about 100 miles east of Seattle, said the visitation was part of the arranged “parenting plan,” his failure to return was “cause for alarm,” presumably because detectives said the girls’ mother believed Decker was experie

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