How Travis Decker died will likely never be known, the Chelan County Coroner said Friday.

DNA lab results on Thursday confirmed that Decker, accused of killing his three daughters outside of Leavenworth, is dead. Decker’s remains were found less than a mile from where the girls — Olivia, 5; Evelyn, 8; and Paityn, 9 — were found dead in early June.

The news officially brought an end to a nearly four-month search through rugged terrain for the Army veteran.

But an autopsy to determine time and manner of death is not possible on the remains, according to Chelan County Coroner Wayne E. Harris.

The few skeletal bones that authorities found were damaged by summer heat and animal activity in the area, Harris wrote in an email. The remains were found in five different areas, hundreds of yards

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