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Detective Yancy

For other uses of Vince, see Vince (disambiguation).

“There were others who were as good with a sketch or a comp-generated image, but Yancy had a way of helping a witness remember details, ot talking them through the process.” - Visions in Death[1]

Yancy, Detective Vince

Introduced in Portrait in Death (August 8-15th, 2059)

Personal Information

Introduction

  • First appeared in Portrait in Death when he was called in to try to create an image of Gerald Stevenson.[5]

Description

  • Pretty-faced;[6] young and what Peabody would have called a cutie.[7]
    • Trina called Yancy “Detective Hot Ass” and thought he was “a yummy one” (when they worked on The Groom’s image).[8]
  • His mop of hair curled appealingly around his striking face.[9]
  • He could pass for twenty-two or -three, Eve thought. Younger if he worked at it. Then his eyes opened, and she added another five years. The eyes knew too much for barely two decades.[9]
  • ”Peabody would’ve called him a frosty-looker with his pretty face, curling black mop, dreamy eyes.”[10]

Personality

  • He was personable and would “chat up” and/or flirt with a witness if it might help put them at ease; it was part of his technique.[11]
    • Yancy worked by getting the witness to relax, engaging in small talk, and easing them in.[8]
    • He was good at digging out the details.[12]

On the Job

  • According to Dallas, he was the best Ident artist in the city.[13]
    • Yancy was Eve’s favored artist.[14]
  • He worked on an image for Dallas in Remember When[15] and in Visions in Death where he worked on the image with one of Roarke’s image programs.[16]
  • In Visions in Death, Eve directed the witnesses to John Blue’s attack on Peabody to “Level Three, Section B, Identification Procedure.”[1]
  • He also aged John Massey’s photo in Haunted in Death.[17]
  • He worked with Carmine, a crime lab tech who was an expert on facial structure, in Bonded in Death to get an idea of what was under the mask in the security feed from the killer’s chauffeur disguise when he picked Giovanni Rossi up at the international shuttle station: “something about face shape, bone structure. Eyes, ears, and whatever.”[18]
  • ”Eve considered him a genius as a police artist, and a damn solid cop.”[10]

Interesting Facts

  • Yancy said that meditating for a few minutes cleared his head.[19]
  • In January 2061 Yancy started dating Laurel Esty, who had been a witness in Brotherhood.[20] (She called him Vince,[20] which was the first mention of his given name.)

YANNI

  • Yancy may have been promoted off-page, but he was called “Officer” in Portrait in Death (August 8-15th, 2059),[21] appeared as “Yancy” (still summer heading toward fall in Visions in Death),[22] and as “Detective” in Survivor in Death (October, 2059; three weeks after Visions).[23]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Visions in Death, Chapter 20
  2. ↑ Portrait in Death (ISBN 0-425-18903-1), p. 313
  3. ↑ Kindred in Death (ISBN 978-0-7499-2899-5), p. 183
  4. ↑ Obsession in Death, Chapter 8
  5. ↑ Portrait in Death (ISBN 0-425-18903-1), pp. 315, 321-322
  6. ↑ Portrait in Death (ISBN 0-425-18903-1), p. 323
  7. ↑ Survivor in Death (ISBN 0-425-20418-9), p. 180
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Creation in Death (ISBN 978-0-425-22102-0), p. 196
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Kindred in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15595-6), p. 182
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Bonded in Death, Chapter 18
  11. ↑ Survivor in Death (ISBN 0-425-20418-9), pp. 203-204
  12. ↑ Kindred in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15595-6), p. 162
  13. ↑ Survivor in Death (ISBN 0-425-20418-9), pp. 169, 180
  14. ↑ Kindred in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15595-6), p. 132
  15. ↑ Remember When (ISBN 0-425-19547-3), p. 399
  16. ↑ Visions in Death (ISBN 0-425-20300-X), p. 315
  17. ↑ Haunted in Death (ISBN 0-515-14117-8), p. 65
  18. ↑ Bonded in Death, Chapter 15
  19. ↑ Creation in Death (ISBN 978-0-425-22102-0), p. 213
  20. ↑ 20.0 20.1 Apprentice in Death (ISBN 978-1101987995), p. 115
  21. ↑ Portrait in Death (ISBN 0-425-18903-1), p. 315
  22. ↑ Visions in Death (ISBN 0-425-20300-X), p. 309
  23. ↑ Survivor in Death (ISBN 0-425-20418-9), pp. 181, 204, 235