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Saturday, November 20, 2010

[GA] Deputy Yancey's wife-murder scheme stole two lives - and got him back-to-back life sentences


FROM EXCERPTS BELOW:
An ex-DeKalb County Sheriff’s deputy [Derrick Yancey] convicted of killing his wife [Linda Yancey] and another man [Marcial Cax-Puluc], will be 111 before he is eligible for parole... DeKalb County sheriff’s deputy Danita Huff told the courtroom that Linda Yancey was afraid her husband might hurt her. "She told me that he would shoot her, and he would kill her"... On the day of the verdict, Yancey [had] asked the judge to delay sentencing until his mother could be present. “Upon being convicted and found guilty he called for his mother,” Linda Yancey’s brother Eugene Thomas told the court. “I thought that was ironic since you had just killed the mother of your two children. During the dark days, who are they going to call on? Can they call on their mother? No, because she is laying over there in a grave”... "She was an officer, she was a wife, she was a mother, she was a daughter, she was a sister, she was a friend. Mr. Cax-Puluc, who had barely began to live his life, he died that day. It's not lost on the court, and probably yourself, that today an officer has fallen because you were a law enforcement officer entrusted with so many responsibilities"...

THANK YOU TO ALL THE LAW ENFORCEMENT PERSONNEL, COURT WORKERS, AND LEGAL FOLKS INVOLVED IN PUTTING THIS MAN IN JAIL FOR THE REST OF HIS LIFE. TRUTH, NOT YANCEY'S LIES, PREVAILED. IF YOU PRAY PLEASE ADD *ALL* THE INVOLVED FAMILY MEMBERS TO YOUR PRAYERS. NOBODY WINS. EVERYBODY STILL LOSES.


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EX-DEPUTY GETS BACK-TO-BACK LIFE SENTENCES IN WIFE'S KILLING
WSBTV
November 19, 2010
DECATUR, Ga. -- A former DeKalb County sheriff's deputy was sentenced to back-to-back life sentences in the killings of his wife and a day laborer on Friday morning. Derrick Yancey, 51, was found guilty in the shooting death of his wife, Linda Yancey, and Marcial Cax-Puluc in 2008. Channel 2 Action News reporter Jeff Dore was in the courtroom and said Yancey did not react when the verdicts were read two weeks ago During deliberations, jurors briefly halted the session to hear a 911 tape again and review a video of the crime scene... [LINK]

FORMER GEORGIA DEPUTY GETS LIFE IN MURDERS OF WIFE, DAY LABORER
CNN.com, In Session
By Nancy Leung, Field Producer
November 19, 2010
[Excerpts] A former Georgia sheriff's deputy convicted of murder in the slaying of his wife and a day laborer in 2008 was sentenced Friday to two consecutive life sentences plus five years in prison. That means that Derrick Yancey, 51, will have to serve at least 60 years before he is eligible for parole. He stared straight forward and showed no emotion as a Superior Court judge imposed the sentence... Referring to Linda Yancey, Judge Linda Hunter said, "She was an officer, she was a wife, she was a mother, she was a daughter, she was a sister, she was a friend. Mr. Cax-Puluc, who had barely began to live his life, he died that day. It's not lost on the court, and probably yourself, that today an officer has fallen because you were a law enforcement officer entrusted with so many responsibilities"... Speaking on behalf of his family, Linda Yancey's brother, Eugene Thomas, addressed Derrick Yancey, a father of two, directly. "You had just killed the mother of your two children. During the night, or during the hard times or dark days, who are they going to call on? Can they call on their mother? No. She's there lying in her grave. That's because of your actions, Derrick." Relatives and friends of both sheriffs' deputies packed the courtroom during the sentencing... [Full article here]



FORMER DEKALB DEPUTY SENTENCED TO 65 YEARS
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
By Megan Matteucci
November 19, 2010
[Excerpts]
An ex-DeKalb County Sheriff’s deputy convicted of killing his wife and another man, will be 111 before he is eligible for parole. Derrick Yancey, 51, showed no emotion Friday as Superior Court Judge Linda W. Hunter sentenced him to 65 years in prison. He must serve two life sentences – 60 years – before being eligible for parole... “Mr. Yancey, I’ve known you for a long time,” the judge said before issuing her ruling Friday. “June 9, 2008, an officer fell that day. Ms. Yancey, she was an officer. … Today an officer has fallen. You were a law enforcement officer, entrusted with so many responsibilities. But we can’t go back and change the verdict of the jury.” On the day of the verdict, Yancey asked the judge to delay sentencing until his mother could be present. “Upon being convicted and found guilty he called for his mother,” Linda Yancey’s brother Eugene Thomas told the court. “I thought that was ironic since you had just killed the mother of your two children. During the dark days, who are they going to call on? Can they call on their mother? No, because she is laying over there in a grave.” The couple leaves two sons, ages 20 and 11. The jury found Derrick Yancey shot Cax-Puluc and Linda Yancey several times, including a final blow as the gun was pressed into his wife's heart. He then concocted a story to look like the 20-year-old laborer had tried to rob the wife and he fired in self-defense... Derrick Yancey had a $700,000 life insurance policy on his wife.... The life insurance policy will go to the couple’s children... Derrick Yancey had threatened divorce and was “paranoid.” Thomas, the wife’s brother, said he feels his family finally has justice... former District Attorney Gwen Keyes Fleming decided not to push for death... Yancey will remain at the DeKalb jail in isolation until his appeal is filed... Deputies said they are anxious for Yancey to move to a state prison and put an end to the emotions that the murder has brought to county law enforcement... [Full article here]

DURING THE TRIAL:


PROSECUTORS: EX-DEKALB DEPUTY SHOT WIFE IN HEART: Derrick Yancy charged with killing wife and day laborer
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
By Megan Matteucci mmatteucci@ajc.com
October 25, 2010
[Excerpts] Thirty years of marriage for two high school sweethearts ended with a DeKalb County sheriff’s deputy [Derrick Yancey] shooting his wife point-blank in the heart, prosecutors told jurors Monday. A shot first hit Linda Yancey in the chest. Another ran through her neck and out her ear, before her husband pressed the gun into the center of her chest as she lay on the floor, prosecutors said. “That shot would blow away a portion of her heart,” Assistant District Attorney Ken Hutcherson said... On Monday, prosecutors told jurors that Yancey “executed” his wife and Cax-Puluc, lied to police, cut off his ankle monitor and then fled to Belize... Police testified that Yancey wasn’t considered a suspect. Investigators testified that Yancey was never handcuffed or detained when police responded to his 911 call. He told the dispatcher his wife had been shot and he needed instructions on how to do CPR. This ultimately helped raise officers' suspicions. Investigator Greg Johns, of the county medical examiner’s office, said Linda Yancey had no bloody handprints on her shirt nor any indication she received chest compressions. Prosecutors said they also didn’t know why Yancey, a trained officer who had completed several first-aid courses, needed 911 to tell him how to perform CPR... McMullin, the defense attorney, said her client was set up by police to alleviate pressure that officers were receiving during a grand jury investigation involving a high number of police-involved shootings. McMullin called the way her client was treated by police a "second tragedy"... The families declined to comment until the end of the trial. Prosecutors and defense attorneys declined, citing a gag order issued by Superior Court Judge Linda W. Hunter. The trial is expected to extend through Nov. 12. [Full article here]

WITNESS: EX-COP'S WIFE FEARED HUSBAND WOULD KILL HER
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
By Megan Matteucci
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
[Excerpts] Six months before she was killed, DeKalb County Sheriff’s Deputy Linda Yancey told her friend [Danita Huff] she was scared her husband would kill her, a fellow deputy said Wednesday... “Linda told me on several occasions that she was upset with him and told me that he would shoot her and kill her”... Defense attorneys objected to Huff’s testimony, calling it hearsay. A judge is now deciding whether it can be part of the case... Yancey has remained silent throughout the trial. On Wednesday, he stared straight ahead as he listened to a recording of the 911 call he made that afternoon. Jurors listened as the 911 operator instructed Yancey how to perform CPR. “He shot my wife. Please hurry,” he cried on the call. “Linda, please wake up.” During the middle of the call, Yancey stopped performing CPR and went to look for police. The 911 operator testified Wednesday that it is “unusual” for someone to walk away in the middle of giving CPR. Prosecutors have also questioned why Yancey, who was certified in CPR in 2004 and 2007, needed instructions on how to help his wife... [Full article here]

EX-DEKALB DEPUTY WILL NOT TESTIFY IN HIS MURDER TRIAL
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
By Megan Matteucci
Thursday, October 28, 2010
[Excerpts] Despite claims of self-defense, a former DeKalb County Sheriff's deputy [Derrick Yancey] will not testify at his murder trial... On Thursday, the prosecution rested its case and the defense put up several witnesses, including the defendant’s mother [Barbara Jordan]...“I had noticed that he was very, very depressed. I would try to conversate with him, but he talked very little,” she told jurors... The mother made no other statements and the defendant’s only other witnesses testified for less than an hour. Earlier Thursday, defense attorneys asked the judge to acquit Yancey, alleging prosecutors did not present any evidence that he killed his wife. However, Superior Court Judge Linda W. Hunter refused... Danita Huff, a fellow detention officer and friend of Linda Yancey, said the wife complained six months prior to her shooting that she was scared her husband would shoot her. But the judge called her statements hearsay and refused to allow them into trial. “They just want to offer it because it sounds bad,” defense attorney Letitia Delan said. “This is nothing more than a speculative statement made in a vacuum.” [Full article here]

ROOMMATE TESTIFIES SLAIN DAY LABORER COULDN'T USE GUN
WSBTV.com
October 28, 2010
[Excerpts] ...[Guatemalan day laborer Marcial] Cax-Puluc’s childhood friend and roommate, Edvin Xujur, testified his friend didn’t even know how to use a firearm... [Detective Hilton Stafford] said the day laborer was seven to ten feet away when he started shooting, but a forensics expert testified Tuesday that Yancey couldn't have been more than 10 inches away when he shot Cax-Puluc... One family friend said Linda Yancey feared her husband Derrick might kill her. DeKalb County sheriff’s deputy Danita Huff told the courtroom that Linda Yancey was afraid her husband might hurt her. "She told me that he would shoot her, and he would kill her," said Huff, though he had not made a specific threat against his wife. But the jury never heard any of Huff’s comments. Superior Court Judge Linda Hunter said it was too late in the trial to introduce what the defense called "heresay evidence"... Yancey's eldest son testified about his parents' rocky relationship. Karron Yancey said his father often talked about seeking a divorce from his wife. Karron said his parents argued a lot, though he said he never saw the arguments get physical. [Full article here]

DEFENSE RESTS IN EX-DEPUTY'S MURDER TRIAL
WSBTV.com
October 29, 2010
Attorneys rested their defense Friday in the trial... Prosecutors told jurors that Yancey killed his wife, then Cax-Puluc... Yancey's attorneys told a different story. Ruth McMullen told jurors that Cax-Puluc is the real villain and tried to rob the Yanceys to pay back $6,000 he owed to the people who smuggled him into the U.S. just a month before he was killed. She also claimed DeKalb police were under a lot of pressure to solve this case and immediately developed a bad attitude toward Yancey... [Full article here]

EX-DEKALB DEPUTY FOUND GUILTY OF MURDER
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
By Megan Matteucci
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
A former DeKalb County Sheriff’s deputy brutally killed his wife and a day laborer, shooting both of them several times in a staged robbery, a jury found Wednesday. The jury returned four guilty verdicts against Derrick Yancey... Sentencing has not been scheduled. Yancey asked for it to be delayed because his mother was not in the courtroom... After waiting those three days, Cax-Puluc’s older brother, Jose, said he was eager to call their mother in Guatemala. “My mother said she wanted justice. My brother didn’t know anything about guns. Yes, we feel there is justice now”... Linda Yancey’s family declined to talk to reporters, saying they wanted to wait until after sentencing. They are discussing a possible civil suit. Prosecutors spent last week telling jurors how Derrick Yancey shot his 44-year-old wife several times in the chest and once in the neck before a final shot as the gun was pressed into her heart. “That shot would blow away a portion of her heart,” Assistant District Attorney Ken Hutcherson told jurors last week... Yancey staged the scene to look like Cax-Puluc, a 20-year-old laborer from Guatemala, robbed the wife... Prosecutors say that was just a story he used to cover up the murders. The couple’s 20-year-old son told jurors last week that his parents frequently argued and Derrick Yancey talked of getting a divorce. Investigators later charged Yancey after finding blood splattered on his hand and legs matched the shooter... [Full article here]

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Friday, June 5, 2009

[GA] Deputy Derrick Yancey videotaped fleeing his murder charges


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...Officials said former DeKalb County sheriff's deputy Derrick Yancey had cut off his ankle monitor... He was last spotted at a bus station in Phoenix, Az. Authorities believe he could be anywhere between Phoenix and Los Angeles or even in Mexico...



FUGITIVE TOOK BUS HEADING WEST
Atlanta Journal Constitution
Ex-deputy wanted in double slaying.Tape shows Yancey leaving area, but trail grows cold out West.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
By Rhonda Cook
Friday, June 05, 2009
[Excerpts] Former DeKalb County sheriff's deputy and now fugitive murder suspect Derrick Yancey escaped Atlanta on a westbound Greyhound bus and then vanished somewhere between Phoenix and Los Angeles, Sheriff Thomas Brown said Thursday. Yancey, who worked in the DeKalb County Jail until a year ago, is accused of shooting his 44-year-old wife and a day laborer. At the time, Yancey claimed he shot 20-year-old Marcial Cax-Puluc after the Guatemalan immigrant shot and killed Yancey's wife, Linda, during an attempted robbery at their home. His story fell apart and Yancey was charged with two counts of murder. He was released on $150,000 bond and ordered to wear an ankle bracelet monitor. Police say Yancey removed that ankle bracelet at 5:41 a.m. April 4 and left his mother's Clayton County house... The first image recorded Yancey, using the name "David Brown," at the Atlanta bus station at 7:10 a.m. buying a ticket to the West Coast. Other bus station cameras tracked Yancey to Dallas, to Amarillo, Texas, and then to Phoenix, where he transferred to a 12:40 p.m. Greyhound to Los Angeles. Yancey was not seen after that because the four stops on the route to Los Angeles did not have cameras, Brown said... Yancey might have headed into Mexico, considering he's fluent in Spanish... A $10,000 reward is being offered for his capture and the television show "America's Most Wanted" (9 p.m. Saturdays on Fox) will broadcast an unscheduled segment... The sheriff said family members also might have helped Yancey get away and, if they did, they will be charged. Investigators suspect Yancey may have altered his appearance... The video from the Atlanta bus station showed him with a new mustache, longer hair and the beginnings of a beard... Most likely, the sheriff said, Yancey will be captured during a traffic stop. [Full article here]

VIDEO SHOWS DERRICK YANCEY LEAVING
Family May Have Helped Yancey Escape, Sheriff Says
WGCL
June 4, 2009
[Excerpts] Derrick Yancey, the ex-deputy accused of killing his wife and a day laborer, is seen on video leaving the area, officials say... Security guards at the bus station didn't even notice him, and with good reason -- Yancey had quite the head start on authorities. Officials said he had cut off his ankle monitor, but 11 hours would pass before the monitoring company would report the breach to authorities. He was last spotted at a bus station in Phoenix, Az. Authorities believe he could be anywhere between Phoenix and Los Angeles or even in Mexico. "We do know that he is quite proficient in the Spanish language," Brown said. Yancey's wife Linda, who was also a DeKalb County deputy, and a day laborer were shot to death in Yancey's home in Stone Mountain in June 2008... "Weeks before he disappeared, he applied to receive a lump sum payment of his pension that he had contributed to DeKalb County," Brown said... [Full article here]

VICTIMS:

Marcial Cax Puluc

Marcial Cax Puluc is the man who is believed to have been killed as a part of a contrived story Deputy Yancey told authorities, as a cover-up in his (premeditated?) murder of his own wife, Dekalb Sheriff's Officer Linda Yancey. Marcial is more than a dead prop. He was a young man with a family who loves him - who was here to help them by earning money to send home. Linda was much more than a wife. She's a mother, sister, friend, and missed co-worker. Her sweetness lingers heavy in the air over all of this.
Linda Yancey
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Wednesday, October 27, 2010

[GA] Trial starts: Did Deputy Yancey kill his wife, Dekalb Sheriff's Officer Linda Yancey, and day laborer Marcial Cax-Puluc?

Thirty years of marriage for two high school sweethearts ended with a DeKalb County sheriff’s deputy [Derrick Yancey] shooting his wife [Dekalb Sheriff's Officer Linda Yancey] point-blank in the heart, prosecutors told jurors Monday... Prosecutors said Yancey “executed” his wife and [day laborer Marcial] Cax-Puluc, lied to police, cut off his ankle monitor and then fled to Belize. Investigators testified that Yancey was never handcuffed or detained when police responded to his 911 call. He told the dispatcher his wife had been shot and he needed instructions on how to do CPR. This ultimately helped raise officers' suspicions...


EX-DEKALB DEPUTY MURDER TRIAL CONTINUES
MyFox Atlanta
Tuesday, 26 Oct 2010
[Excerpts] A former DeKalb deputy says it was a day-laborer who shot and killed his wife. Monday morning in court, one of the prosecutor's witnesses says the immigrant did have gun powder residue on his hands... But prosecutors created doubt asking, "if you are shot at close range and put your hand on the wound?"... Derrick Yancey is charged with two counts of murder and two counts of possession of a weapon in connection with the deaths of his wife, Linda Yancey, and laborer Marcial Cax-Puluc. He faces a minimum of two life sentences... [Full article here



GBI: BLOODSTAINS SHOW EX-DEPUTY WAS SHOOTER
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
By Megan Matteucci
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
[Excerpts] Blood found on a former DeKalb County Sheriff’s deputy shows he shot his wife, a GBI crime analyst testified Tuesday. Former deputy Derrick Yancey, 51, is on trial on charges he killed his wife, Linda Yancey, and day laborer Marcial Cax-Puluc ... GBI Special Agent Cecil Hutchins told jurors that blood splatter found on Derrick Yancey’s feet, shins and between his fingers are consistent with the wounds on his wife’s body ... Linda Yancey was shot in the chest, neck and in the heart with the gun pressed into her chest, prosecutors said... On Monday, a DeKalb police officer, who was the first at the scene of the shooting in June 2008, testified that Derrick Yancey was holding a gun when the officer arrived. The officer said he ordered Yancey to throw the gun on the lawn, but said he didn’t suspect Yancey was the shooter. Prosecutors said Yancey “executed” his wife and Cax-Puluc, lied to police, cut off his ankle monitor and then fled to Belize. Yancey’s attorney, Ruth McMullin, said Monday that her client was the victim and Cax-Puluc shot the woman in an attempt to steal $2,000. She also claims her client was treated unfairly by police... [Full article here]



PROSECUTORS: EX-DEKALB DEPUTY SHOT WIFE IN HEART: Derrick Yancy charged with killing wife and day laborer
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
By Megan Matteucci
October 25, 2010
[Excerpts] Thirty years of marriage for two high school sweethearts ended with a DeKalb County sheriff’s deputy shooting his wife point-blank in the heart, prosecutors told jurors Monday. A shot first hit Linda Yancey in the chest. Another ran through her neck and out her ear, before her husband pressed the gun into the center of her chest as she lay on the floor, prosecutors said. “That shot would blow away a portion of her heart,” Assistant District Attorney Ken Hutcherson said... Police testified that Yancey wasn’t considered a suspect. Investigators testified that Yancey was never handcuffed or detained when police responded to his 911 call. He told the dispatcher his wife had been shot and he needed instructions on how to do CPR. This ultimately helped raise officers' suspicions. Investigator Greg Johns, of the county medical examiner’s office, said Linda Yancey had no bloody handprints on her shirt nor any indication she received chest compressions. Prosecutors said they also didn’t know why Yancey, a trained officer who had completed several first-aid courses, needed 911 to tell him how to perform CPR. DeKalb Detective Richard Ward Thompson, who was the first to arrive at the scene, said Yancey told him the deaths were the result of a robbery and gunfight. “He seemed relatively calm to me for someone just in a gunfight,” the officer testified... Yancey worked for the sheriff’s department for 18 years. McMullin, the defense attorney, said her client was set up by police... McMullin acknowledged that Yancey fled, but did not say why. “I can’t ignore the elephant in the room. Yes, Mr. Yancey cut his ankle bracelet off,” she told jurors. “Yes, he left. He did. But it did not happen in the days and weeks following the slaughter of his wife.” The families declined to comment until the end of the trial. Prosecutors and defense attorneys declined, citing a gag order issued by Superior Court Judge Linda W. Hunter... [Full article here]

DEPUTY YANCEY'S [ALLEGED] VICTIMS:

His wife Linda Yancey, and an unsuspecting day laborer, Marcial Cax Puluck - who is thought to have died not knowing why.


Marcial Cax Puluc is the man who is believed to have been killed as a part of a contrived story Deputy Yancey told authorities, as a cover-up in his (premeditated?) murder of his own wife, Dekalb Sheriff's Officer Linda Yancey. Marcial is more than a dead prop. He was a young man with a family who loves him - who was here to help them by earning money to send home. Linda was much more than a wife. She's a mother, sister, friend, and missed Dekalb Sheriff's Officer co-worker. Her sweetness lingers heavy in the air over all of this.


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Friday, August 15, 2008

[GA] "Resigned" Deputy Yancey indicted for double murder of Linda and Marcial.

..."This is a case that's going to lean heavily on the forensics and ballistic evidence, which we have quite a bit of, and it's powerful. It will prove beyond a reasonable doubt what we've thought all along - Deputy Yancey's guilty"...

A DeKalb County grand jury indicted Derrick Yancey yesterday on 2 counts of murder in the June 9 shooting deaths of his wife, DeKalb County Detention Officer Linda Yancey, and day laborer Marcial Cax-Puluc. Deputy Yancey resigned last month before this month's charges.

Prayers are lifted for all family members and friends of Linda, Marcial, Derrick, and the law enforcement officers who are seeing this through professionally despite their own disappointment in what appears to be the outcome .
EXCERPTS FROM NEWS VIDEOS NOT FOUND IN ARTICLE TEXTS:
...Dekalb County Sheriff's Sgt. Dave Fonseca: "This is a case that's going to lean heavily on the forensics and ballistic evidence, which we have quite a bit of, and it's powerful. It will prove beyond a reasonable doubt what we've thought all along - Deputy Yancey's guilty"...
...The old boss of both Yancey's - Sheriff Thomas Brown - arranged for Thursday's surrender: "I've seen a lot in my 23 years in law enforcement. This is a first... Linda Yancey was a phenomenal wife, employee, mother..."
...Yancey will be seeking bond - possibly as early as this morning...
...Eugene Thomas, Linda Yancey's brother: "I did not have any idea. I was surprised. I was shocked. I was devastated. And I haven't had a good night's sleep since it occurred"...

FORMER DEKALB SHERIFF'S DEPUTY CHARGED IN WIFE, DAY LABORER'S SHOOTING DEATHS
MyFox Atlanta, GA
15 Aug 2008, 5:53 AM EDT
Friday, 15 Aug 2008, 5:45 AM EDT
A former DeKalb County sheriff’s deputy has been charged in the June 9 shooting deaths of his wife and a day laborer killed in the deputy's home. Derrick Yancey turned himself in to authorities on Thursday. Yancey told police that the day laborer, Marcial Cax-Puluc, had shot Linda Yancey to death in an apparent robbery attempt, and he killed Caz-Puluc. Geary would not disclose evidence or a motive that led to Yancey's indictment on two counts of malice murder and two counts of possession of a handgun during a felony. [LINK]

EX-DEPUTY INDICTED ON TWO COUNTS OF MURDER
11alive.com
Tracey Christensen
tchristensen@wxia.gannett.com
8/14/2008
[Excerpts] DECATUR, Ga. -- A grand jury returned an indictment Thursday charging a DeKalb County Sheriff's deputy with two counts of murder in the deaths of his wife and a day laborer inside his home last June. A grand jury warrant was issued for the arrest of Derrick Yancey, who turned himself into the DeKalb County jail Thursday afternoon. Yancey was searched personally by Sheriff Thomas Brown, booked, and then moved to an undisclosed jail for his own protection. Assistant District Attorney Don Geary said Yancey, who resigned from the department last month, was informed of the indictment about noon Thursday. Yancey claimed that Marcial Cax-Puluc was an intruder who shot and killed his wife, Linda, during a robbery attempt inside the couple's two-story brick home on June 9. Yancey said he then killed Cax-Puluc, who had arrived in the United States just six weeks earlier from Guatemala... The indictment also charges Yancey with two weapons offenses of possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony. Linda Yancey, 44, was a DeKalb County detention officer for 13 years who most recently worked in the juvenile intake section... Yancey's attorney said he has every confidence his client will be found not guilty. Keith Adams told 11Alive News that he is working on getting his client's bail set and that he and the district attorney simply disagree on the evidence. [Full article here]

EX-DEPUTY CHARGED WITH KILLING WIFE AND DAY LABORER
Derrick Yancey has surrendered to authorities
Atlanta Journal Constitution
By David Markiewicz, David Simpson
Thursday, August 14, 2008
[Excerpts] ...Yancey surrendered to authorities at the DeKalb County Jail at 2:40 p.m. Thursday, said Mikki Jones, a spokeswoman for the sheriff’s office. She said he would be moved to another jail because of his former job with the sheriff’s office, which oversees the DeKalb jail... [Full article here]
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Sunday, April 5, 2009

[GA] "DESPARATE, ARMED, AND DANGEROUS" - Double murder suspect Deputy Yancey has cut off his electronic monitor and is missing

...The sheriff's office said on Saturday it assumes that Derrick Yancey is desperate, armed and dangerous...“He was on an electronic monitor and was restricted to the house... We received info that he cut the bracelet off and left his residence.”

Somebody tell me WHY anyone suspected of murdering his wife and an uninvolved day laborer would be on house arrest!

FORMER GA. LAWMAN CHARGED IN KILLINGS GOES MISSING
WALB-TV
Associated Press
April 5, 2009 12:54 AM ET
DECATUR, Ga. (AP) - Authorities are hunting for a former DeKalb County sheriff's deputy who is missing while free on bond on charges of killing his wife and a day laborer. The sheriff's office said on Saturday it assumes that Derrick Yancey is desperate, armed and dangerous. The DeKalb County fugitive squad is looking for the 49-year-old suspect. Yancey was indicted in August in the fatal shootings of his wife and a Guatemalan day laborer who he claimed had killed his spouse at their Stone Mountain home. Prosecutors say Yancey fabricated the story about the June 9 shootings. Yancey was released after his August arrest on $150,000 bond and placed under house arrest. The sheriff's office said he was last seen Friday night at his family's home in Jonesboro. [LINK]

VICTIMS:

Marcial Cax Puluc

Marcial Cax Puluc is the man who is believed to have been killed as a part of a contrived story Deputy Yancey told authorities, as a cover-up in his (premeditated?) murder of his own wife, Dekalb Sheriff's Officer Linda Yancey. Marcial is more than a dead prop. He was a young man with a family who loves him - who was here to help them by earning money to send home. Linda was much more than a wife. She's a mother, sister, friend, and missed co-worker. Her sweetness lingers heavy in the air over all of this.
Linda Yancey

FORMER DEPUTY AWAITING TRIAL FOR WIFE’S MURDER MISSING
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
By Marcus K. Garner
Saturday, April 04, 2009
Updated: 12:20 a.m. April 05, 2009
A former DeKalb County Sheriff’s deputy, out on bond as he awaited trial in the deaths of his wife and a day laborer, has gone missing, authorities said Saturday. The sheriff’s office’s fugitive unit is looking for Derrick Yancey... “He was [on] an electronic monitor and was restricted to the house,” [sheriff’s spokeswoman Lt. Billi] Akins said late Saturday night. “We received info that he cut the bracelet off and left his residence.” Yancey was indicted and arrested in August for the June shooting death of his wife Linda, 44, and day laborer Marcial Cax Puluc, 20... The court ruling last August allowing Yancey to be released drew a sharp response at the time from his wife’s siblings. In a statement, lawyer Loletha Denise Hale, who said she spoke for Eugene Thomas and Gloria Thomas Sanders, accused prosecutors of giving Yancey “preferential treatment as a result of his previous employment with the DeKalb County court system”... Akins said Sheriff Thomas Brown is taking Yancey’s disappearance seriously because of the deaths involved. “We’re concerned that he is desperate and may be armed and dangerous,” she said. She said anyone who knowingly harbors or assist him would be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Sheriff’s deputies are asking anyone with information to call the DeKalb’s fugitive squad at 404-298-8200. [Full article here]

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Thursday, November 13, 2008

[GA] Trial delays for double-murder accused Deputy Yancey

Ex-deputy to get new judge in murder trial
Atlanta Journal Constitution,
David Simpson
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
The murder case of ex-DeKalb County sheriff's deputy Derrick Yancey is getting a new judge. Yancey, 49, is accused of killing his wife and a day laborer in his home June 9. He claimed he shot the laborer after the laborer killed his wife during an attempted armed robbery. The district attorney's office wanted all DeKalb County judges to step aside because Yancey had often worked in the courthouse. Superior Court Judge Anne Workman refused. The state Supreme Court upheld her ruling, but the appeal process delayed preparations for a trial. Workman filed an order last week saying she was concerned she would not be able to complete Yancey's trial before her retirement takes effect Dec. 31. The case now is before Superior Court Judge Linda Hunter. [LINK]

This short article's author didn't mention the names of Deputy DY's (alleged) victims. That has to be wrong. (It just has to be.) May these two stolen lives never be considered incidental in the prosecution or coverage of this case.
Marcial Cax Puluc
is the man who is believed to have been killed as a part of a contrived story Deputy Yancey told authorities, as a cover-up in his (premeditated?) murder of his own wife, Dekalb Sheriff's Officer
Linda Yancey.
Marcial is more than a dead prop. He was a young man with a family who loves him - who was here to help them by earning money to send home. Linda was much more than a wife. She's a mother, sister, friend, and missed co-worker. Her sweetness lingers heavy in the air over all of this.
Who's NOT in a jail right now?
Derrick Yancey.

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Saturday, August 30, 2008

[GA] "Resigned" Deputy Yancey walks out of jail with double-murder charges

Granted bond - Aug 28


Yancey Released - Aug 29


Victim’s family upset ex-deputy got bond ‘Preferential treatment’ got Derrick Yancey house arrest, they say
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
By DAVID SIMPSON
August 28, 2008

Former DeKalb County sheriff’s deputy Derrick Yancey can await his double murder trial under house arrest and a $150,000 bond, a judge ruled Thursday.

The ruling drew a response from a representative for two siblings of Yancey’s wife, whom Yancey is accused of killing. An attorney who said she spoke on behalf of the siblings of Linda Yancey said the DeKalb district attorney’s office failed to do enough to prevent Yancey’s release.

“It appears Mr. Yancey is receiving preferential treatment as a result of his previous employment with the DeKalb County court system,” said a statement issued by lawyer Loletha Denise Hale, who said she spoke for Eugene Thomas and Gloria Thomas Sanders.

Asked about the statement, chief assistant district attorney Don Geary said Yancey “will be treated as any other criminal defendant charged in DeKalb County. We will vigorously prosecute within the limits of the law, and we will do everything we can to be mindful and considerate of the wishes of the victims’ family.”

Linda Yancey, 44, and day laborer Marcial Cax Puluc, about 20, were killed at the Yanceys’ home near Stone Mountain June 9.

Yancey told police that Cax Puluc killed his wife in an armed robbery attempt, forcing Yancey to shoot him. But authorities say lab tests showed Yancey shot both victims.

Derrick Yancey, 49, escorted prisoners to appearances in the county courthouse for 11 years until he was placed on leave because of the shootings. He resigned Aug. 11 and was jailed Aug. 14, when a grand jury indicted him.

Superior Court Judge Linda Workman issued a bond order Thursday, specifying that Yancey must wear an ankle monitor and leave his mother’s Clayton County home only for legal or medical appointments.

Workman’s order quoted a Georgia law which makes defendants eligible for release on bond if they pose “no significant risk” of fleeing, intimidating witnesses or committing other crimes. Unlike many other states, Workman wrote, Georgia does not further restrict bond for murder defendants unless they have been convicted of a prior violent crime.

Geary opposed bond in a Wednesday hearing, telling Workman that Yancey became more of a risk to flee after quitting his job and placing his 8-year-old son with his mother. Workman’s order noted, however, that Yancey had taken those steps before his indictment and still reported to jail voluntarily when an arrest warrant was issued.

Geary did not offer evidence about the shootings or suggest that Yancey might be a threat to others.

Defense attorney Keith Adams said Thursday he expected it would take “a couple of days” to arrange the bond and electronic monitoring. Yancey is being held in an undisclosed jail.

Yancey was a 17-year veteran of the sheriff’s office. Linda Yancey also worked for the sheriff’s office for 13 years, most recently as an intake officer in Juvenile Court.

Workman’s order said she expects Yancey to be tried by the end of the year.
[LINK]

Links to videos on Youtube:
[GA] Deputy Yancy says he killed man who killed wife Linda
[GA] Deputy Yancey's wife Linda & man dead
[GA] Deputy Yancey's jailer wife and a man are dead
[GA] Deputy Yancey's jailer wife and a man are dead (2)
[GA] Deputy's wife Linda Yancy & unidentified man killed
[GA] Deputy Yancey dv calls to his house before wife shot
[GA] Sheriff Brown on the shooting of Linda Yancey & man
[GA] Police Chief Bolton on Officer Linda Yancey murder
[GA] Funeral for Officer Linda Yancey
[GA] Sister of slain Officer Linda Yancey
[GA] Friend : Marcial Puluc had no gun to shoot Linda Yancey
[GA] Police want to talk to Deputy Yancey re: wife's murder
[GA] Deputy Yancey charged on double-homicide 1
[GA] Deputy Yancey charged on double-homicide 2
[GA] Deputy Yancey charged on double-homicide 3
[GA] Charged with double-murder, Deputy Yancey wants out
[GA] Ex-deputy Yancey granted bond on double-murder charge
[GA] Ex-deputy Yancey RELEASED on double-murder charge
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Sunday, June 29, 2008

[GA] Who believes Deputy Yancey didn't murder Linda & Marcial?

...FOX 5 NEWS HAS LEARNED DEKALB POLICE WANT TO TALK TO DEPUTY DERRICK YANCEY ABOUT THE DOUBLE KILLINGS AT HIS HOUSE, AGAIN. IT APPEARS HIS ACCOUNT OF THE INCIDENT IS BEING QUESTIONED...

I can't say who did what, but besides his own attorney, & by the third day after the killings of Linda & Marcial, there appears to be no one speaking out for the innocence, or even character, of DeKalb Deputy Derrick Yancey. Even sadder, the things that his attorney comes up with seem to further heighten, not lessen, the appearance of a double homicide.

...[DEFENSE ATTORNEY KEITH] ADAMS SAYS [DEKALB DEPUY DERRICK] YANCEY EVEN PREPARED LUNCH FOR CAX-PULUC. AT SOME POINT, THE ATTORNEY SAYS, LINDA YANCEY CAME HOME AND THE THREE OF THEM ENDED UP IN THE BASEMENT. THE DEFENSE ATTORNEY SAYS THAT'S WHEN YANCEY HANDED HIS WIFE ABOUT $2,000 CASH. "HE'S STANDING THERE AND IN A COUPLE OF SECONDS HIS WIFE IS SHOT. AND HE'S GOT TO DO SOMETHING..." ATTORNEY ADAMS ALSO SAYS BOTH OF THE WEAPONS FOUND ON THE SCENE DID BELONG TO YANCEY...

[See all previous blog entries on the deaths of Linda Ann Thomas Yancey & Marcial Cax Puluc here.]

EXCERPTS FROM NEWS SINCE THE LAST TIME I POSTED:

DAY WORKER SHOT BY DEPUTY WAS 'INNOCENT,' FRIENDS SAY
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
By MARY LOU PICKEL mpickel@ajc.com
Published on: 06/17/08
Roommates of a Guatemalan man shot and killed last week by an off-duty DeKalb County sheriff's deputy say their friend was a quiet day laborer who arrived in the United States six weeks ago. Deputy Derrick Yancey told police he shot Marcial Cax-Puluc because the man fatally shot his wife in the deputy's home during an attempted robbery June 9. Yancey had picked up Cax-Puluc at a gas station earlier that day to perform work around the house, according to a police report. Cax-Puluc's roommates doubt the deputy's version of events. "We're not going to stop until this gets cleared up," roommate Jose Perez, 29, said. "We know they killed an innocent guy who was just trying to get some money to help his mama in Guatemala," Perez said... Roommates at the Stone Mountain-area apartment complex where Cax-Puluc lived described him as a "timid" teenager who didn't speak much. "He was a quiet kid. He didn't smoke. He didn't drink," Jose Perez said... The men said Cax-Puluc was 18 years old, although police have given his age as 23. The undocumented day laborer came from the town of San Pedro Sacatepequez, Guatemala... [Full article here]

DAY LABORER'S ROOMMATES SAY HE WAS 'TIMID'
Killing case: Consul general of Guatemala in Atlanta plans to meet with DeKalb police chief.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
By Mary Lou Pickel
06/18/08
...The roommates want to hold a wake for Cax-Puluc in their home on Saturday. "We want justice, and that this never happens again," said Luis Perez. Beatriz Illescas, consul general of Guatemala in Atlanta, said the Guatemalan government will help defray the cost of sending the body back to Guatemala. Illescas said DeKalb police Chief Terrell Bolton will visit the consulate today to talk about the investigation. Bolton has assured her the police will be impartial in their handling of the case, she said... [Full article here]

LAWYER: EVIDENCE WILL SUPPORT DEKALB DEPUTY
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
By DAVID SIMPSON
06/19/08
A lawyer for DeKalb County sheriff's deputy Derrick Yancey said Thursday that the evidence will prove Yancey is telling the truth about the fatal shootings of his wife and a day laborer in his home... "His account of what occurred can be supported by the evidence and numerous witnesses," [defense attorney Keith] Adams said. Adams said at least one witness saw Linda Yancey alive some time after Cax-Puluc had begun working at the home, which would contradict any suspicion that Yancey brought the laborer to his home after his wife was killed. Adams said he had not been told the results of any laboratory tests which might show whether Cax-Puluc fired a weapon. Linda Yancey, 44, also was an employee of the sheriff's office... [Full article here]

CONSUL: CHIEF SAYS PROBE INTO LABORER'S KILLING WILL BE FAIR
Roommates say Guatemalan man was timid, had no gun
Atlanta Journal Constitution, USA
By MARY LOU PICKEL
Published on: 06/18/08
DeKalb County Police Chief Terrell Bolton assured the Guatemalan consulate today that he is working hard to solve the case of the slain sheriff's deputy and the day laborer. "He was very eager to show me he was going to find out things exactly the way they happened," said Guatemalan Consul General of Atlanta Beatriz Illescas... THE ROOMMATES OF THE SLAIN IMMIGRANT SAY THEY DOUBT THE DEPUTY'S VERSION. They say Cax-Puluc arrived in the United States six weeks ago and dedicated himself to waiting at a nearby gas station, hoping to work odd jobs. He was timid, they said, and didn't own a gun... [Full article here]

BODY OF MAN SHOT BY DEKALB DEPUTY GOING BACK TO GUATEMALA
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
By MARCUS K. GARNER
Published on: 06/21/08
Marcial Cax-Puluc's only friends in America gathered in the south Atlanta area Saturday night to bid him one last goodbye. "We are not promised tomorrow," Malcolm Lewis said, consoling the younger mourners who gathered for a visitation at the Airport Mortuary Shipping Service in Hapeville, near Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport. Lewis is a Stone Mountain contractor who had hired the young day laborer from Guatemala to lay tiles. "When I paid him the $80 for the day, he was like a kid getting a new popsicle," Lewis said. Such was the enthusiasm Cax-Puluc had about working to send money home to his mother. But that was not to be... Oscar Perez, 28, who lived and worked with Cax-Puluc for the six weeks he was in the U.S., said he couldn't believe his friend would have done what Yancey said he did. "He was the kind of person who didn't drink or smoke," Perez said. "But the only proof I have is myself and anyone that knew him." Another roommate, Alejandro Montes, said he had run the deputy's account of the incident past many of his friends. "They don't believe it," Montes said. "I don't believe it, either. I'm going to keep telling people this was wrong"... The Guatemalan Consul General in Atlanta, Beatriz Illescas Putreys, paid half of the $4,000 cost to send his body back to his family. The body leaves on Tuesday, said Putreys, who also attended the visitation. "His friends came up with the rest (of the money)," she said. "Although they are very poor, they worked very hard." Saying this won't be the first sad story she's seen in her position, Putreys said she hopes justice is done. "But if he is innocent, this is the very worst thing I've seen," she said. [Full article here]

FRIENDS ATTEND SERVICE FOR SLAIN DAY LABORER
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
By Marcus K. Garner
06/22/08
Marcial Cax-Puluc's only friends in America gathered in the south Atlanta area Saturday night to bid him one last goodbye. "We are not promised tomorrow," Malcolm Lewis said, consoling the younger mourners who gathered for a visitation at the Airport Mortuary Shipping Service in Hapeville... Lewis is a Stone Mountain contractor who had hired the young day laborer from Guatemala to lay tiles. "When I paid him the $80 for the day, he was like a kid getting a new popsicle," Lewis said. Such was the enthusiasm Cax-Puluc had about working to send money home to his mother. But that was not to be... The Guatemalan Consul General in Atlanta, Beatriz Illescas Putreys, paid half of the $4,000 cost to send his body back to his family. The body leaves on Tuesday, said Putreys, who also attended the visitation. "His friends came up with the rest" of the money, she said. "Although they are very poor, they worked very hard." Saying this isn't the first sad story she's seen in her position, Putreys said she hopes justice is done. "But if he is innocent, this is the very worst thing I've seen," she said. [Full article here]

[GA] POLICE WANT TO TALK TO DEPUTY YANCEY RE: WIFE'S MURDER

...DEPUTY DERRICK YANCEY SAYS HE IS HAVING A DIFFICULT TIME COPING WITH HIS WIFE LINDA'S UNTIMELY DEATH. THE CAREER LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER THOUGHT THE INVESTIGATION INTO THE DEADLY SHOOTING OF HIS WIFE LINDA AND DAY LABORER MARCIAL COX-PULUC WOULD HAVE FINISHED BY NOW. INSTEAD SUSPICION SEEMS TO BE SWIRLING AROUND YANCEY...

POLICE SEEK TO QUESTION DEKALB DEPUTY IN SHOOTING DEATH AT HIS HOME
myfoxatlanta.com
Aungelique Proctor
23 Jun 2008
There is new information in the case of a DeKalb County deputy who says he shot and killed a day laborer who had just killed his wife. Linda Yancey and Marcial Cox-Puluc were both killed in what Deputy Yancey says was a robbery attempt. FOX 5 News has learned DeKalb police want to talk to Deputy Derrick Yancey about the double killings at his house, again. It appears his account of the incident is being questioned but his attorney says Yancey story can be backed with evidence. Deputy Derrick Yancey says he is having a difficult time coping with his wife Linda's untimely death. The career law enforcement officer thought the investigation into the deadly shooting of his wife Linda and Day Laborer Marcial Cox-Puluc would have finished by now. Instead suspicion seems to be swirling around Yancey. Because of the on-going investigation, the 17-year veteran is talking through his attorney. "It's difficult for Derrick Yancey now," said Yancey's Attorney Keith Adams, "because there has been five million stories and speculations, rumors about what happened there. The fact of the matter is when the incident occurred he called 911 right away." Adams says Yancey picked up Guatemalan Day Laborer Cox-Puluc at a Chevron... the next stop was at the Home Depot where Yancey bought pinestraw and Roundup. "That can be collaborated..." said Yancey. Adams says Yancey even prepared lunch for Cox-Puluc. At some point, the attorney says, Linda Yancey came home and the three of them ended up in the basement. The defense attorney says that's when Yancey handed his wife about $2,000 cash. "He's standing there and in a couple of seconds his wife is shot. And he's got to do something. And that's unfortunate. It's a terrible, terrible tragedy. All the way around"... Attorney Adams also says both of the weapons found on the scene did belong to Yancey. The deputy believes Cox-Puluc took one of his guns and used it to kill his wife... [Full article here]
PUBLIC COMMENTS FROM HERE AND THERE

AN INSIGHT?
Anonymous said...
Derrick was going to prevent Linda leaving anyway possible. When he first learned of her plans to end the marriage and file for divorce he went absolutely nuts. Derrick thought he planned the perfect crime. He had no inention of sharing what "HE" worked so hard far . He would set the house on fire first before he woulkd sell it in a divorce. [Comment found here]

A PARALLEL:
Dakota Valkyrie
Jun 10, 2008 at 10:19 am -
There was a case some time ago where a man set up a guy in order to kill his wife.
Wife had gotten weirded out by a taxi driver. Husband called taxi company and complained. He then called the driver and asked him to come over to discuss the situation. When the driver got there, hubby had beaten his wife to death, then shot the driver. He planted the gun on the dead driver. [Newslink]
Wonder if this is going to be a similar story. [Comment found here]

A COMMON COMMENT:
jenjen0135
Jun 11, 2008 at 12:59 pm -
Here’s the link from Fox5 Atlanta. They have been following the story since it broke.
Even though they used day laborers often for landscaping, a lot of folks around here seem to go with the opinion that: He may have brought this guy home to use as a “pawn” in his game of lets get rid of the wife without them pinning it on me… And he could of course shoot the laborer in “self-Defense” of the guy having a gun and “robbing” them. Dead dudes don’t talk... [Comment found here]

SOMEONE HAS QUESTIONS:
Anonymous said...
Fact: Officer Yancey, AKA Antonio, is or was in the weekend landscaping business. He is known by me and other to have picked up Hispanic guys at Central Dr. and Hairston to do work at his home and others. He hire these men (day laborers)to work at the homes of other police officer's, attorney's, entertainer's and more. Sometimes he buys beer and serve food to these guys. Once Officer Yancey befriends the day labors he exchanges telephone numbers and if one of them has a vehicle he will have that person pick up the others and bring them to his house. Soooooo, there is no need for him to cruise Central Dr, he just have to call one of his buddies to get the guys. Also never just hire one person to do a job, it's always two or more. Fact: Almost all the men have no transportation, have no idea of where they are when they get to the "job". They are escorted to and from the location by "Antonio" or he instructs one of them where to take the others.
Ques. Why did the officer need to go to Central Ave himself and only hire just ONE person? If that person planned to rob his employer what was his exit strategy? Hitch hike out of the complex and then jump on the Marta?
Antonio, Antonio, Antonio!!!! Was things between you and your wife that bad that you had to kill an innocent man to cover up your evil doing? Do you not value human life? Do you think Hispanic lives are of no value and that this man will not be missed? If so, Antonio, you were WRONG.
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PEOPLE TALK, BUT WHO KNOWS?:
Anonymous said...
A question for Mr. Jose Perez of AJC. Have you heard anything about another day laborer found dead the same day Officer Yancey killed Mr. Cax-Puluc in his home, June 9, and also in the Stone Mountain area?
Saturday, June 28, 2008 6:26:00 PM PDT
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