The still-on-the-loose homeless veteran’s escalating behavior became so concerning that his ex-wife — who has since said Decker is more a “broken’’ man than a cold-blooded killer — hurriedly filed a protection order petition against the accused killer.

“He had seemed better, then it seemed like things just started happening one after another,” Whitney Decker wrote in the documents, obtained by KXLY.com.

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