The whereabouts of Travis Decker – the man police believe murdered his three young daughters in a Washington campground – has finally been determined by DNA results on human remains found last week not far from the scene of the crime.

Decker, a 33-year-old Army veteran, was declared dead this week after a three-month manhunt for the man, believed to be a survivalist, who authorities thought may have been evading capture in the Washington wilderness.

“He is deceased. Our DNA results confirm that, and that brings a close to this case,” Chelan County Sheriff Mike Morrison said during a press conference Thursday evening.

Morrison called the killings, the manhunt, and the discovery of his remains and articles of his clothing a “dark chapter” in the history of Chelan County.

The remains were

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