EXCLUSIVE See all the spine-chilling pictures of forest murder camp where Travis Decker 'brutally slaughtered his three little girls'... and what he left behind
It could not be more picturesque: a natural beach on the glacial Icicle Creek backdropped by the towering pines and flowering shrubs of the Okanogan–Wenatchee National Forest.
But the beauty of this Washington State riverside clearing hides a dark reality: this is the isolated campground where killer dad Travis Decker allegedly and where their bodies were discovered on June 2.
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