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LI authorities ID 1997 'Peaches' homicide victim as Army veteran who was living in Brooklyn

Tanya Denise Jackson's remains were discovered stuffed into a container in a wooded part of Hempstead Lake State Park in June 1997.

News 12 Staff

Apr 23, 2025, 4:35 PM

Updated 99 days ago

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Authorities on Long Island today identified a woman long associated with the Gilgo Beach murders investigation as a veteran who was living in Brooklyn at the time of her 1997 death.
Tanya Denise Jackson, previously known as “Peaches”, was a U.S. Army veteran born in Alabama.
Jackson's remains were discovered stuffed into a container in a wooded part of Hempstead Lake State Park in June 1997.
DNA analysis conducted during the Gilgo investigation linked her to the remains of a female child found along Ocean Parkway near Cedar Beach in 2011. That child, Tatiana Marie Dykes, has been identified as Jackson’s daughter.