Border Patrol agent Cody Bachman was scouring the steep slope of Grindstone Mountain north of the Enchantments with a four-man search crew and canine when his radio crackled with reports from a team thousands of feet below.

A green T-shirt, matching the outfit Travis Decker was last seen wearing. Army Ranger shorts. A can of chewing tobacco. A bracelet. And piles of bones.

The search for Decker, the 32-year-old ex-Army soldier from Wenatchee accused of killing his three daughters, was effectively over.

For more than 100 days, hundreds of law enforcement personnel from over a dozen government agencies searched for Decker. It took nearly $10 million, hundreds of miles searched and over 700 tips to find the significantly decayed remains of Decker three-quarters of a mile from and 1,200

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