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Video shows former
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by Brian Egeston
be@brianwrites.com
Double murder suspect and former DeKalb County deputy Derrick Yancey walked into a Greyhound bus station April 4 and boarded a bus bound for Los Angeles. Law enforcement officials say they don’t know if he’s in Mexico or the United States.
DeKalb County Sheriff Thomas Brown released the video showing Yancey buying a ticket sporting a beard and wearing a doo rag. Brown said he believes some of his family members may have helped him escape and those family members, whom he did not name, are now considered persons of interests.
Yancey is accused of shooting his wife Linda and Marcial Cax-Puluc, a day laborer. Yancey told authorities that he shot Cax-Puluc after the day laborer shot and killed his wife at their Stone Mountain home.
Yancey was later arrested and charged with murder. He was released on bond and put on house arrest at his parents’ Clayton County home.
When asked if any more murder suspects would be wearing ankle braclets and out on bond, Brown said, “I don’t know that’s not my job. I don’t make those rules.”
Surveillance cameras at the Atlanta bus station show Yancey at a time when authorities did not know he was missing. Yancey bought a bus ticket using the alias David Brown, authorities said. Yancey was picked up on cameras in Phoenix, Amarillo, Texas, and Dallas. Bus stations beyond those stops do not have surveillance cameras, Brown said.
If Yancey has crossed the Mexican border, he may become more elusive. “We are concerned because we do know that he has the ability to move easily among the Latino community because he worked with them often in his part time job,” said Brown. “It’s easy to get from Mexico to America so I assume it’s just as easy to get from America to Mexico,” Brown said.
There is a $10,000 reward for his capture, and Brown said the television show America’s Most Wanted has been a valuable resource.
After the murders, Yancey withdrew his entire pension of $18,000, Brown said. Yancey’s attorney Keith Adams did not confirm nor deny that he was paid with any of that money.
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