43 h. ago Gilgo Beach victim 'Peaches' finally identified after 27 years in bombshell serial killer case update

US Army veteran Tanya Denise Jackson, 26, and her two-year-old daughter Tatiana Marie Dykes were identified, marking a huge breakthrough in their 1997 unsolved murders.

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45 h. ago Gilgo Beach victims 'Peaches' and 'Baby Doe' named as veteran mum and daughter 30 years later

Tanya Denise Jackson, 26, and her two-year-old daughter Tatiana Marie, have been pictured nearly 30 years after their bodies were found not far from Long Island’s Gilgo Beach in an unsolved crime

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45 h. ago Remains of ‘Peaches’ and ‘Baby Doe’ found near Gilgo Beach identified after 27 years as army vet and her toddler

Police said they had no evidence at this time to suggest the unsolved killings were linked to Rex Heuermann, who has been charged in the deaths of seven women whose remains were discovered elsewhere on Long Island — but noted that they might be.

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47 h. ago New York police to ID woman and child whose remains were discovered near Gilgo Beach

Police in New York are expected to reveal the identity of a woman and child whose remains were among other bodies discovered scattered along an oceanfront highway not far from Long Island’s Gilgo Beach

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2 w. ago Riddle of daughter who went to buy milk and then washed up dead on Gone Girls beach

When a woman's body was found washed up on Gilgo Beach in 2013, police were quick to rule out any connection to the notorious serial killer case. But not everyone is convinced.

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2 w. ago Russia's 'chessboard serial killer' who murdered 48 will make chilling bombshell confession

Alexander Pichushkin, one of the world's most notorious serial killers, who murdered 48 people, told the Russian prison service he was set to make a horrifying admission

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2 w. ago Two teenage stowaways found dead in JetBlue landing gear finally identified

Both the men were identified months after the incident

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3 w. ago Joanne Sharkey won't go to jail for killing and dumping newborn baby 25 years ago

Baby Callum was found dead in Warrington in 1998 and his mother wasn't traced. But a DNA breakthrough in the cold case in 2022 finally led to Joanne Sharkey being identified

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3 w. ago Crew of New Zealand navy ship that sank off Samoa lacked training and experience, inquiry finds

A lack of training, qualifications and experience among the crew on board a New Zealand navy ship that ran aground, caught fire and sank off the coast of Samoa have been identified by a military Court of Inquiry in a final report into the disaster released Friday

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3 w. ago ‘Their voices had been overlooked for so long’: the shocking hunt for the Gilgo Beach killer

The long and often shocking journey to finding the alleged killer of young women in Long Island is brought to a wider audience in a damning new Netflix seriesThe film-maker Liz Garbus was on vacation in July 2023 when she got the call that an arrest had finally been made in the case of the Long Island serial killer. Since 2010, when the bodies of four women were found along an isolated stretch of highway near Gilgo Beach, authorities had looked for a presumed serial killer with little progress and plenty of consternation. Garbus was one of the most prominent chroniclers of the grassroots effort to force authorities into action; her 2020 feature film Lost Girls, an adaptation of Robert Kolker’s book of the same name, depicted the fight by a group of working-class women to figure out what happened to their loved ones – all women who participated in sex work on Craigslist – with or largely without police help.It was the star of that film, Amy Ryan, who alerted Garbus to the arrest of R...

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3 w. ago Gilgo Beach serial killer suspect's wife makes shock appearance at DNA hearing hours after finalizing divorce

Despite their marriage now being over, Rex Heuermann's wife Asa Ellerup and daughter Victoria appeared in court in Riverhead, Long Island, Friday for a hearing about key DNA evidence.

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3 w. ago Suspected Gilgo Beach serial killer and wife reach divorce settlement amid court hearing on DNA evidence

Rex Heuermann, 61, is charged with the murders of seven women on Long Island

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3 w. ago Should DNA evidence be admissible in the trial of the Gilgo Beach serial killings suspect?

The question of whether DNA evidence can be used in the upcoming trial of a Manhattan architect charged in a string of deaths known as the Gilgo Beach killings is the focus of a court hearing

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4 w. ago A teen girl’s skeletal remains were found in a California river 30 years ago. Now police have finally identified her

Laura O’Malley reportedly left her New York home in August 1975 because she didn’t get along with her stepfather

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