Her torso was found in a plastic case in Hempstead Lake PArk in the Long Island section of New York (USA) in 1997. Additional remains of hers would be found more than a decade later in the Gilgo Beach area of Long Island where the bodies of several other women were found. One of the bodies found was that of a toddler girl which DNA evidence woul prove to be the daughter of the unidentified victim known as “PEaches” due to tattoo of a peach on her chest.
Enforcement on April 23, 2025 announced that “Peaches” was in fact a military veteran named Tonya Denise Jackson originally from Alabama. Her two year old daughter was Tatiana Marie Dykes.
Rex Heuermann has been arrested for several of the murders of victims of Gilgo Beach and is the prime suspect in the homicides of Jackson and Dykes. There is still a $25,000 reward for information related to their slayings.
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