Three sisters — Paityn (9), Evelyn (8), and Olivia (5) — are dead, leaving their mother, Whitney Decker, with unimaginable grief and a haunting sense that this could have been stopped.

Whitney says she begged police for help when the girls weren’t returned after a visit with their father, Travis Decker. She asked for an Amber Alert and warned authorities about his worsening mental health and violent behavior, but was told the case didn’t qualify.

Days later, the girls were found at a remote campsite near Leavenworth, Washington. They had been bound and suffocated. Travis Decker is now the main suspect and remains on the run.

The case has sparked national outrage and renewed calls for change, raising a painful question: how many warnings have to be ignored before children are truly protected?