Gilgo Beach LISK Serial Killer, Rex Heuermann, charged with 7 murders, July 2023 #16

[DS2021]

After 28 years, "Peaches" (1997) is now Identified

Nassau County Police Department and the FBI Leverage Othram's Forensic Sequencing Platform to Identify a 1997 Gilgo Beach Homicide Victim

dnasolves.com

 

[minazoe]

She could have been an unlucky pretty girl at a party.

I don’t even want to think about how Tatiana ended up there.

yes, let me give you two a ride home.. hmmm.

 

[dotr]

Gilgo Beach homicide victim ‘Peaches’ identified as Army vet Tanya Denise Jackson but mystery remains

The identities of a dismembered woman dubbed “Peaches” and her 2-year-old daughter were finally revealed by cops on Wednesday — some 30 years after their remains were found scattered near Gil…

nypost.com

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''The Alabama native had been living in Brooklyn and working as a medical assistant at a doctor’s office around the time she vanished, cops revealed Wednesday.

Her daughter’s remains were uncovered several years later as cops were probing the infamous Gilgo Beach murders.

Their bodies were discovered in two different places but later linked by DNA in 2015, police said. They were positively ID’d using genetic genealogy in early 2024 but authorities withheld their identities for investigative reasons.''

''Police said they had identified the toddler’s father and that he has been cooperating with the probe. They stopped short, though, of confirming if he was a suspect in the murders.''

 

[DS2021]

'Peaches' identified in 1997 cold case long associated with Gilgo Beach murders

Nassau County police have identified two murder victims from a 1997 cold case long associated with the Gilgo Beach murders on Long Island.

www.fox5ny.com

What we don't know:
Officials aren’t ruling out a connection to the Gilgo Beach murder case, but sources that have spoken with FOX 5 NY's Jodi Goldberg say it’s unlikely, though they are looking into all possibilities

 

[dotr]

Apr 23, 2025
However, they say the deaths are unrelated to the serial killings. CBS News New York's Chris Wragge reports.

 

[iamshadow21]

Apr 23, 2025
However, they say the deaths are unrelated to the serial killings. CBS News New York's Chris Wragge reports.

CBS can say that, but that's not what was said at the press conference. There was a lot of talk of basically keeping all their options open.

MOO

 

[Vern]

I'm curious if that find a grave was made under their names, or if someone took the Jane does graves and changed the info

Per the Press Conference, Tanya and Tatiana have been ID'd for 'quite some time' and Tanya, alongside her daughter, was given a full military funeral and laid to rest "within the past 1 or 2 months."

Scrolling down to the bottom of their "Find A Grave" memorial sites, it seems their pages were created on 14 March 2025 by 'Honoring Veterans'. IMO, I'd suspect that would be within the very near timframe of Tanya's Military Funeral having occured.

 

[INfisherman]

I’m curious about something I believe was covered in the "Gone Girls" documentary. IIRC there was a (former?) call girl who described being taken to a basically empty home with lawn chairs (?) & a TV & long story short, she didn’t feel comfortable how things were going & ran out while the customer, allegedly RH, was upstairs doing something. I want to say she mentioned she thought there may have been someone else there as well, possibly upstairs or heard noises indicating as such. Forgive me if I’m misremembering details as I’m going from memory…

Does anyone know where that place was located? Curious if it is known & if it is along known routes RH may have travelled during his extracurricular activities. This encounter seems to me that it would be quite a valuable piece of information on which to follow up, similar to the male roommate of the RH victim who described him as an ogre.

My apologies for any wrong info, as I’ve not followed this case closely & just pick up bits & pieces here & there as I see new developments.

 

[Just K]

I need to catch up and refresh my memory. Especially re: victims timelines, particularly those that occurred nearer to the time Tanya was found in the Rubbermaid. I believe Tanya’s case will provide many answers and explain much about his changing MOs and possibly how this relates to the case of still unidentified “Cherries.”

 

[Just K]

I posted this in Tanya’s thread but I thought I’d post it here, in the general thread, too.

Something that nags at me is Tanya Rush. This guy seems to like patterns and connections. He has many victims with “M” names (Maureen, Megan and Melissa, Valerie Mack), “B and C” last names (Barthelamy, Brainard Barnes, Costello, Costilla) and it would follow that he might have two or more victims with the same first or last name. Then I think of Jessica Taylor and Tanya Jackson. The same initials just reversed.

 

[Just K]

Karen V, Tanya J, and Jessica T’s remains/body parts were dumped earlier (1996-2003) than the GB4 and their body parts were found nearest to Jones Beach, correct?

 

[iamshadow21]

I posted this in Tanya’s thread but I thought I’d post it here, in the general thread, too.

Something that nags at me is Tanya Rush. This guy seems to like patterns and connections. He has many victims with “M” names (Maureen, Megan and Melissa, Valerie Mack), “B and C” last names (Barthelamy, Brainard Barnes, Costello, Costilla) and it would follow that he might have two or more victims with the same first or last name. Then I think of Jessica Taylor and Tanya Jackson. The same initials just reversed.

The thing is, he didn't know the girls by those names. At least, not until he killed or incapacitated them and went through their wallets. All the girls doing sex work used street names.

Sometimes we are looking for patterns so hard that we find them. Like the date in Delphi and the date of the cousins in Evansdale. It doesn't mean they mean anything.

MOO

 

[Aluev]

Has anyone been able to find more info regarding the circumstances of Tanya Jackson going missing back in 1997? Was she even reported as missing or entered in a missing persons database?

 

[Just K]

The thing is, he didn't know the girls by those names. At least, not until he killed or incapacitated them and went through their wallets. All the girls doing sex work used street names.

Sometimes we are looking for patterns so hard that we find them. Like the date in Delphi and the date of the cousins in Evansdale. It doesn't mean they mean anything.

MOO

True but we know he stalked victims and later their family and friends and that he saw some of his victims more than once before killing them. He definitely saw Amber Costello twice and probably Melissa B- based on her boyfriend’s account of a regular client in LI. Then there is the fact that Melissa was friends with Rita Tangredi’s daughter. Because of Melissa, we know RH stalked family members of his victim’s. Makes me feel that he is likely Rita’s killer, too and he watched her daughter and then Melissa through Rita’s daughter. Idk, just a feeling.

I still believe he killed
Tanya Rush
Rita Tangredi
Colleen M
Asian John Doe
The two Manorville male victims
The Asian female with the gold pig jewelry
Andre (Sugar Bear)
And others

I suspect he killed Natasha Jugo, too

 

[Just K]

For a good timeline of his charged crimes:

Here's a complete timeline of the Gilgo Beach serial killings

More than a decade after 10 bodies were found during a search for a missing woman on Long Island, Gilgo Beach serial killer suspect Rex Heuermann was arrested.

www.yahoo.com

 

[minazoe]

True but we know he stalked victims and later their family and friends and that he saw some of his victims more than once before killing them. He definitely saw Amber Costello twice and probably Melissa B- based on her boyfriend’s account of a regular client in LI. Then there is the fact that Melissa was friends with Rita Tangredi’s daughter. Because of Melissa, we know RH stalked family members of his victim’s. Makes me feel that he is likely Rita’s killer, too and he watched her daughter and then Melissa through Rita’s daughter. Idk, just a feeling.

I still believe he killed
Tanya Rush
Rita Tangredi
Colleen M
Asian John Doe
The two Manorville male victims
The Asian female with the gold pig jewelry
Andre (Sugar Bear)
And others

I suspect he killed Natasha Jugo, too

but not Shannan?

 

[LookingForClues]

Has anyone been able to find more info regarding the circumstances of Tanya Jackson going missing back in 1997? Was she even reported as missing or entered in a missing persons database?

I suggest following Tanya's thread, that's where most of the discussion is happening. Page 19 is where we discuss the press conference while it was live, and moving on with our questions, theories, etc.

Tanya was estranged from her family, and from Tatiana's father, so they were not reported missing, according to officials at the press conference. However, some media have since reported her family reported her missing, but long after she disappeared. I'm not sure where the information is coming from that family reported her missing, possibly that's an error since LE said at the press conference that no one reported her missing. Perhaps as things settle down, we'll have a clearer picture on that question and others.

At this time, officials have not named a suspect in the murders of Tanya and Tatiana.

Thread 'Victim "Peaches" IDd as Tanya Denise Jackson, and toddler IDd as Tatiana Marie Dykes, found Hempstead Lake State Park, June 1997 #4'

Apr 5, 2011

l to r: 2 inch peach/heart tattoo on left breast; Rubbermaid container held torso of black female; floral pillowcase and red towel also found inside container

Hempstead Lake State Pk, Lakeview
Nassau County, NY

28 June 1997

West side of Lakeside Drive, 200 yards north of Peninsula Boulevard, Hempstead Lake State Park. -- Black female torso. Arms, head...

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[minazoe]

let's connect those items to Rex's house. there has to be something usable.

 

[Megnut]

let's connect those items to Rex's house. there has to be something usable.

What year did he start living in that house?

 

[whiterhino]

let's connect those items to Rex's house. there has to be something usable.

JMO there is a good chance these items came from the victims home. I'm not familiar with this victims case, were the items ever tested for DNA? I am not convinced that this was RH. Jmo.