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

The Chelan County Sheriff’s Office told KING 5 that a drone helped lead searchers to the site near Leavenworth where the remains, which included femur and feet bones, were found on Thursday. The aircraft captured images of a T-shirt known to have belonged to Decker. The site was less than a mile from the original scene, a remote area near Grindstone Mountain, according to the sheriff’s office.

“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 a shirt we had seen Mr. Decker w

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