GUILTY GA - Linda Yancey, 44, & Marcial Cax-Puluc, 23, murdered, Stone Mountain, 9 June 2008

[mysteriew]

I've been kind of watching this one too. If LE suspects him but don't have evidence to arrest, they won't say anything. If they decide it was a legitimate shoot, they will eventually clear him. I'm still hoping that the tests (whatever tests they were able to run on the evidence) will show something conclusive. But that may take time.

 

[Roxye]

I've been kind of watching this one too. If LE suspects him but don't have evidence to arrest, they won't say anything. If they decide it was a legitimate shoot, they will eventually clear him. I'm still hoping that the tests (whatever tests they were able to run on the evidence) will show something conclusive. But that may take time.

True, it could take time to find something conclusive. I am probably just being over-eager because I have thought this sounded fishy from the get-go. Justice is slow but usually it is fair. Let's hope the truth comes out in time, with an officer involved shooting, too often the truth never really comes out.

 

[TGIRecovered]

I'm glad I'm not the only one hoping to hear of progress in this case.
I'm afraid it will all come down to whether the initial invesitgation was clean and efficient or not. It looks like Yancy put some thought in to this, so he probably made some effort to make the ballistics tests appear to show residue on the worker's hands. JMO

Susan

 

[mysteriew]

I'm glad I'm not the only one hoping to hear of progress in this case.
I'm afraid it will all come down to whether the initial invesitgation was clean and efficient or not. It looks like Yancy put some thought in to this, so he probably made some effort to make the ballistics tests appear to show residue on the worker's hands. JMO

Susan

Yeah I am kinda afraid of that too. He is aware of forensics and would know how to stage many things. The only way they might catch him is by evidence that can't be altered like blood splatter and things. It is very possible they won't be able to charge on this one.

 

[Roxye]

http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/dekalb/stories/2008/07/14/yancey_deputy_home_shooting.html

More than a month after a DeKalb County sheriff's deputy Derrick Yancey said he killed a robber who had just killed Yancey's wife, authorities have neither cleared nor charged him.


Yancey's lawyer, Keith Adams, said he has been in touch with the district attorney's office and Yancey has submitted a DNA sample.

 

[Chicogirl36]

Any locals hear any news or speculation? What do most think that happened?

I think he did it and set up the laborer unfortunately.

 

[Tom'sGirl]

Grand jury indicts former deputy sheriff for murder
[SIZE=-1]Fort Mills Times - Fort Mill,SC,USA[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]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. ...[/SIZE]

Ex-Deputy Indicted on Two Counts of Murder
[SIZE=-1]WXIA-TV - Atlanta,GA,USA[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Officials were working on getting Yancey to surrender. Yancey claimed that Marcial Cax-Puluc was an intruder who shot and killed his wife, Linda, ...[/SIZE]

 

[RiverRat]

Thanks for providing this update that sadly isn't a surprise.

 

[Tom'sGirl]

Thanks for providing this update that sadly isn't a surprise.

Nope, no big surprise at all RR. His account of the crime from the beginning was lame

 

[TGIRecovered]

I am relieved to see that this one won't linger for years without charges. I'm tired of seeing this type of murder go unpunished.

Susan

 

[christine2448]

Ex-deputy charged with killing wife and day laborer

Derrick Yancey has surrendered to authorities

By DAVID MARKIEWICZ, DAVID SIMPSON
The Atlanta Journal-Const
Thursday, August 14, 2008
Former DeKalb County sheriff’s deputy Derrick Yancey was charged with murder Thursday in the shooting deaths of his wife and a day laborer at his home June 9.
Yancey was indicted on two counts of murder in the deaths of his wife, Linda Yancey, 44, and the laborer, Marcial Cax-Puluc, whom police said was age 23. Don Geary, DeKalb chief assistant district attorney, said Yancey, who resigned from the sheriff’s office on Monday, also faces two weapons charges in the incident.

DeKalb Sheriff's Office
Linda Yancey had worked most recently as intake officer in the juvenile court.

DeKalb Sheriff's Office
Derrick Yancey is a 17-year-veteran deputy whose job was to transport inmates.


Related links:

• Body of man shot by Dekalb deputy going back to Guatemala

• Roommates say Guatemalan man was timid, had no gun

• Deputy had hired day laborer

• DeKalb deputy says he shot man who killed his wife



Yancey told police he killed Cax-Puluc after the illegal Guatemalan immigrant shot Linda Yancey. Derrick Yancey said he had hired Cax-Puluc to do yard work. He said the man found one of Yancey’s guns in his home and used it to try to rob Linda Yancey. Authorities believe Yancey killed both of them.

 

[Lucy's mom]

Ex-deputy charged with killing wife and day laborerQUOTE]

Thanks for updating us...I knew it!!!!

 

[mysteriew]

I am actually surprised. LOL, not that he is accused of it, but that he was actually charged. I really wondered if he would get by with it.

 

[concernedperson]

Yep, Yancey is charged with double murder. We all thought it but like to believe the best in people when circumstances show otherwise.

http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/me...puty_murder.html?cxntlid=homepage_tab_newstab

 

[joe jones]

There was a similar case to this a few years ago, can't remember the names of the people involved, where a woman was harrassed by a man who had driven her home from the airport, her husband called the individual over to there home to sort out the problems, and he killed the man, and then killed his wife, he told LE that he had some upon the man killing his wife and killed the man in self defence

I wonder if the deputy had ever heard of this case, the man in this case was convicted,

 

[mysteriew]

Friends of Guatemalan man relieved at deputy’s arrest

Jose Cax Puluc never believed his brother was a killer. But DeKalb County sheriff’s Deputy Derrick Yancey claimed day laborer Marcial Cax Puluc killed Yancy’s wife in an armed robbery June 9, forcing Yancey to shoot him.

However, on Thursday, a DeKalb grand jury indicted the deputy, accusing him of both slayings.



Marcial Cax-Puluc had been in the United States six months when he was killed.

DeKalb Sheriff's Office

Linda Yancey had worked most recently as intake officer in the juvenile court.
Related links:

• Deputy charged with murder of wife, day laborer

• Body of man shot by Dekalb deputy going back to Guatemala

• Deputy had hired day laborer

• DeKalb deputy says he shot man who killed his wife

• DeKalb County newsRelatives and friends of the young illegal immigrant from Guatemala insisted from the beginning of the investigation that he was not a violent person.

His 30-year-old brother, Jose Cax Puluc, reached by phone Thursday as he painted a house in Florida, paused when told the news.

http://www.ajc.com/wireless/content/metro/dekalb/stories/2008/08/14/dekalb_deputy_murder.html

 

[Tom'sGirl]

Victim’s family upset ex-deputy got bond
[SIZE=-1]Atlanta Journal Constitution - GA, USA[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]By DAVID SIMPSON [/SIZE]

[SIZE=-1]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.[/SIZE]

 

[Chicogirl36]

Victim’s family upset ex-deputy got bond
[SIZE=-1]Atlanta Journal Constitution - GA, USA[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]By DAVID SIMPSON [/SIZE]

[SIZE=-1]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.[/SIZE]

Thanks TG for the latest info- What a freaking shame- :behindbar:behindbar

Quoted form above article:

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.

I obviously don't live in GA, but I find it hard to believe that this "law" (and I do mean that lightly) is used as often as they are making it sound. He did this is in his own jurasdiction, and as much as his ex-cowrkers/friends dont want to admit he did it, it seems they are making it very easy for him. Look how long it took to arrest him- ANyone else would have been picked up on the spot until proven innocent.

What a shame- poor Mrs, Yancy is getting bullied by him from the grave. He gets to sit at his mom's house, get waited on hand and foot, and Im sure there will be PLENTY of delays to keep him out a while!! What a SHAME!!

 

[mysteriew]

It sounds like there may be some court issues. I read an earlier article where the district attorney asked for the Dekalb judges to recuse themselves from the case because of the fact that Yancy had worked in their court. The judges refused.

If the law is really written that way, then they really do need to look at it. This way a person could go into one of their schools and blow away 30-40 kids and get out on bond as long as he didn't have a prior record.

 

[Chicogirl36]

Just doesnt seem right- Georgia would be over run be criminals is this were a commonly used law. Looks like his lawyer dusted off his case books and found this by the skin of his teeth.

Im sure he is not as much as a flight risk as the avge Joe, but look at Thomas Campano- He was a polititian and that is the only one I can think of now- Seems like the court is already showing some bias IMO in his case. I hope he serves the prpoper sentence for at least his wife and childreen's sake- Thay have already lost both parents, but at least the monster who did this will pay for killing their mom and a stranger to boot!! Plus- Im sure he lied straight to his WHOLE families faces and continues to do so!

What a !!! Hee needs to bunk up with Bobby Cutts- They are 2 peas in a pod!

Sorry for the rant- I just dont think this is fair at all!!!