Gilgo Beach murders victim and her toddler daughter identified after 27 years

Gilgo Beach murders victims Tanya Denise Jackson (right) and her daughter Tatiana Marie Dykes (left) have been identified (Pictures: Nassau County Police Department)

The identities of two more Gilgo Beach victims have been revealed 27 years after the brutal murders.

Jane Doe No 3, also referred to as Peaches, was named as US Army veteran Tanya Denise Jackson, 26. Nassau County officials during a press conference in Long Island on Wednesday also identified Jackson’s two-year-old daughter as Tatiana Marie Dykes.

The identifications of the mother and daughter were made previously, but not disclosed in light of the ongoing investigation. Officials speaking from Mineola said that Jackson, who had a peach tattoo, was a black woman.

Jackson’s dismembered torso was discovered inside a Rubbermaid container at Hempstead Lake State Park in Lakeview, New York, in 1997.

Tatiana’s skeletal remains were found in 2011 near Ocean Parkway. It was not until five years later that the girl was linked to her mother through examining DNA.

Jackson was a single mother from Alabama and was living in Brooklyn, where she was believed to be employed at a doctor’s office. She had served in military bases in Texas, Georgia and Missouri from 1993 to 1995.

Suspected serial killer Rex Heuermann has not been charged in connection with Jackson and her daughter’s deaths. Heuermann has been charged with murdering seven women from 1993 to 2010 in Long Island.

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