Man Threatens to Pull a Travis Decker, Taking His Two Young Children and Threatening to Kill Them | Crime Alert 10AM 11.20.25

A Washington father compares himself to Travis Decker as he stands accused of taking his two young children and saying he would kill them, and police move fast to find them safe. A man in New York pleads guilty after planning a mass-casualty attack that aimed to poison Jewish children with candy handed out by someone dressed as Santa. Drew Nelson reports.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Crime al Art hourly update, breaking crime news Now. I'm
Drew Nelson. A Washington father compares himself to Travis Decker
as he stands accused of taking his two young children
and saying he would kill them and police move fast
to find them safe. The children's mother told police the
man said quote he was going to be like Travis
Decker and kill the kids. Decker, of course, the Shelan
County father whose remains were found in September after a

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massive man hunt, making headlines after police say he absconded
with his three young daughters in June and killed them.
No names have been released in the new case.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
We're all aware of the Decker case and its impacts
on people across the state. I can tell you that
you know, we acted on the information we had in
this case.

Speaker 1 (00:41):
Commander Paul Ryan telling Komo. Investigators used cell phone data
to track the suspect's car. Kiddados County Deputies founded in
KLi Ellum. The two children were inside. They were not hurt.
When Roe police reached the scene and took the father
into custody. His bailist set it two hundred thousand dollars
and no contact order bars him from contacting the children
or their mother. The case began when the mom called

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for help on Friday night. She said the man tackled
her in the street outside her home. She said he
took her car keys and tried to hit her with
the car. She says she did not know that children
were missing until police reached her home, one child ten
months old, the other seven years old. Como says fear
grew when police learned of the decker threat. Officers then
pushed for speed as they searched.

Speaker 2 (01:25):
We take cases like this very serious. You know, we
understand the consequences of not investigating a case like this
at our best.

Speaker 1 (01:34):
Thankfully, police say the joint work with the klee Ellum
Police Department and Kittitas County Sheriff's Office led to a
good conclusion. The children are home safe. The father is
in jail as prosecutors review possible charges. More crime and
Justice news after this, A man in New York pleads

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guilty after planning a mass casualty attack that aimed to
poison jewish his children with candy handed out by someone
a dressed as Santa Claus. The Justice Department said the
man is Mikhail Chikik Vishfeli. They said he was the
leader of the group known as the Maniac Murder Cult
that urged violence in Brooklyn. He pleaded guilty to soliciting
hate crimes and sending instructions to make bombs and rising.

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Officials say he directed an undercover FBI employee to hand
out poisoned candy to quote many racial minorities and traitors.
They said he pushed for a larger plot in early
twenty twenty four that targeted Jewish schools and Jewish children
in Brooklyn. He told the undercover agent to use a
Santa suit. Federal leaders say his words sparked real attacks.

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They set. A seventeen year old at Antioch High School
in Nashville, Tennessee, killed one person and injured another before
killing himself. They said. The teen shooter named chikik Vishfeeli
in a manifesto. They said. An attacker in Turkey stabbed
people outside a mosque in twenty twenty four and posted
a link to the hater's handbook, which chickik Vishfeeli wrote
his group pushed for mass killings and urged school shootings.

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Attorney General Pamela Bondi said, quote violent nihilistic racist groups
like these are an ongoing threat to the American people.
Our vigilance will not waiver as we protect our citizens.
Assistant Attorney General John A. Eisenberg said chikik Viishfieli's monstrous
plots and propaganda calling for racially motivated violence against civilians,
including children, posed a grave threat to public safety. Federal

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officials say he traveled to Brooklyn in late twenty twenty two.
They said he pushed for hate crimes on the Telegram
messaging platform and started passing out the Hater's Handbook In
twenty twenty one. He told the undercover agent quote, I
see USA as big potential because accessibility to firearms and
other resources. He was indicted in July of twenty twenty
four and extradited from Moldova in May. He now faces

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up to forty years in prison, telling the court quote,
I'm going to do better with my life. A long
search in Washington continues as federal agents try to learn
what happened to Giovanna JOHNA. Tyler, a twenty nine year
old mother who vanished under suspicious conditions. Giovanna Tyler was
last seen at her home in the two thousand block
of East Gregory Street in Tacoma. She disappeared in late

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March of twenty twenty four. Her parents reported her missing
in April after two weeks with no calls and no visits.
She had four children. She had filed for an order
of protection against her husband in August of two thousand
and three. She never reached out again. No one has
ever been found who spoke with her after she vanished.
The FBI says she is an American, Indian, and Alaska
Native woman, a member of the Macaw tribe. She had

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ties to Tacoma and Nia Bay. She had a large
multicolored dragon tattoo on her left shoulder. Five foot nine,
one hundred and seventy pounds, She had brown hair and
brown eyes, last seen wearing blue jeans and a gray hoodie.
The FBI is offering a reward of up to ten
thousand dollars for information that leads to her recovery and
the conviction of anyone tied to her disappearance. Anyone with
information in the cases as to call eight hundred, call FBI,

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or go to Tips dot FBI dot gov. For the
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on your favorite podcast app with this crime alert. I'm
Drew Nelson,