WENATCHEE, Wash. (AP) — Forensic tests confirmed that human remains found on a remote mountain in Washington state this month were those of a former soldier wanted in the deaths of his three young daughters last spring, officials confirmed Thursday.

His remains were discovered in a remote wooded area in central Washington, south of the city of Leavenworth, the Chelan County Sheriff’s Office said.

Law enforcement teams have been searching more than three months for Decker ever since the bodies of daughters — 9-year-old Paityn Decker, 8-year-old Evelyn Decker and 5-year-old Olivia Decker — were found in early June along with his truck at a campground in outside of Leavenworth.

An autopsy determined the girls’ cause of death to be suffocation, the sheriff’s office said. They had been bound

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