Federal authorities have taken over the search for Travis Decker, the father accused of kidnapping and murdering his three young daughters at a campsite in Washington state.

The Chelan County Sheriff's Office has been looking for Decker since the evening of May 30. That's when his ex-wife, Whitney Decker, alerted police that their three daughters — Olivia, 5; Evelyn, 8; and Paityn, 9 — had not returned from a planned visitation with him.

On June 1, after a weekend of searching, law enforcement discovered Decker's empty vehicle near a campground in central Washington state — and the bodies of his daughters nearby. Decker, 32, was nowhere to be found.

The large-scale search for Decker has grown to involve state, local and federal law enforcement agencies. On Saturday, Gov. Bob Ferguson a

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