WENATCHEE, Wash. — New details are emerging about how investigators located the presumed remains of Travis Decker, ending a three-month manhunt for the alleged murderer.

The Chelan County Sheriff’s Office told KING 5 that a drone helped lead searchers to the site south of Leavenworth where the remains were found. The aircraft captured images of a t-shirt known to have belonged to Decker. The site was less than a mile away from the original scene, a remote area known as Grindstone Mountain, according to the sheriff's office.

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“The drone work picked up some abnormalities in the images we had collected,” Sheriff Mike Morrison said. “We came back through, zoomed in on the abnormalities, and saw that it was consistent with

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