Years after the our bodies of a girl and her 2-year-old daughter have been discovered on Lengthy Island — as soon as related to the Gilgo Seashore serial murders — her suspected killer appeared earlier than a Florida decide on Thursday dealing with homicide costs.
Andrew Dykes, 66, was arrested Wednesday close to Tampa on a warrant out of Nassau County, New York, in reference to the 1997 loss of life of Tanya Jackson, regulation enforcement sources advised ABC Information.
The Nassau County district legal professional’s workplace declined to remark.
Nassau County police and prosecutors show photographs of Tanya Jackson and Tatiana Dykes, whose stays have been discovered close to Lengthy Island’s Gilgo Seashore, throughout a information convention, Wednesday, April 23, 2025, in Mineola, N.Y.
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Jackson was 26 when she was discovered dismembered in Lakeview in June 1997. Her 2-year-old yr previous daughter, Tatiana, was discovered 14 years later close to Gilgo Seashore.
For years, Jackson, a U.S. Military veteran, was recognized solely as “Peaches” due to a particular tattoo, and her daughter as “Child Doe.”
Andrew Dykes is seen on this reserving picture.
Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Workplace
In April, authorities in New York introduced they’d lastly recognized Jackson and her daughter and provided a $25,000 reward for info within the chilly case.
The lady’s stays have been present in 2011 near the place the stays of different ladies have been discovered alongside the southern shore of Lengthy Island resulting in hypothesis the deaths have been the work of the Gilgo Seashore serial killer.
Lengthy Island architect and father Rex Heuermann was arrested in 2023 in reference to a number of of the Gilgo Seashore slayings and later charged with killing seven ladies.
Heuermann, who has pleaded not responsible, was by no means charged with the killings of Jackson or her daughter.
