DeKalb County Sheriff Thomas Brown on Monday will announce "significant developments" in the search for Derrick Yancey, the former DeKalb County deputy accused in the 2008 slaying his wife and a day laborer, a sheriff's department spokesman said.
No further details on the new developments were released early Monday morning. The press conference is scheduled for 3 p.m.
Yancey, who worked in the DeKalb County Jail, 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.
A series of bus station surveillance cameras began picking up Yancey about two hours later, even though authorities had yet to discover he had fled.
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, police said.
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