'Peaches' and 'Baby Doe,' bodies found near Gilgo Beach, ID'd as mother and 2-year-old daughter
The identities of a woman and child whose remains were found 14 years apart on Long Island have been identified as a mother and her daughter, cold case murders that officials say could be linked to the alleged Gilgo Beach serial killings.
The identities of a woman and child whose remains were found 14 years apart on Long Island have been identified as a mother and her daughter, cold case murders that officials say could be linked to the alleged Gilgo Beach serial killings.
Tanya Jackson, 26, was found dismembered in Hempstead Lake State Park in Lakeview, New York, on June 28, 1997. Her 2-year-old daughter, Tatiana Dykes, was found about 20 miles away along Ocean Parkway near Gilgo Beach in April 2011, Nassau County officials said at a press conference Wednesday.
Authorities had long identified Jackson as "Peaches," a nickname drawn from a tattoo that was found on Jackson's torso, while Tatiana had been referred to as "Baby Doe."
Stephen Fitzpatrick, a Nassau County Police homicide detective, said that the two weren't genetically linked until a 2015 DNA analysis. The case was later turned over to the FBI, whose forensic experts were able to identify the bodies.
Jackson was a single mother at the time of her death, living in Brooklyn's Sunset Park neighborhood. She served "honorably" as a U.S. Army veteran between 1993 to 1995, the detective said.
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