NY NY - Tammy Mahoney, 19, Oneida, 8 May 1981

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Tammy Mahoney update: Several witnesses have come forward in 1981 cold case, FBI says

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Oneida, NY — Several witnesses have come forward in the case of Tammy Mahoney, a 19-year-old Central New York woman who disappeared after a party near Oneida in May 1981.

Her case has never been solved and her remains never found.

The FBI said Monday at a news conference in Oneida that the case is still very active, and several witnesses have come forward confirming information others have provided in the past.

“We have gained momentum, and we are making progress,’' said Janeen DiGuiseppi, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Albany Field Office. She said she could not elaborate on the witnesses or the information they confirmed.

She also said New York State Police have devoted more resources to the case including enlisting help from their Major Crimes Unit and also the Cold Case Unit in Albany.

“We investigate new leads every day,’' she said. “Forty-two years is too long.”

Mahoney’s sister, Marlene Laccesaglia, said at the news conference the uncertainty and lack of closure is difficult.

“It’s devastating for our family,’' she said. “But we feel happy and hopeful that police continue to pursue this case.”

The last update came more than a year ago, when FBI officials revealed Tammy Mahoney had hitchhiked to a party, and then left on foot after an altercation. That was in May 1981 and Mahoney, a SUNY Morrisville student from Long Island, was never seen again.

Her body has never been found. Investigators have suggested that she might have been gang-raped and murdered the night of May 8, 1981, and continue to follow leads in the case. FBI officials have said people are out there who know something and they continue to work the case keeping Mahoney’s disappearance in the spotlight.

Mahoney was hitchhiking on state Route 46 -- likely to see friends -- when she was picked up and taken to a party on Territory Road (East), a small side street that crosses Route 46, south of Route 5, the FBI has said

The FBI has offered a $20,000 reward for information leading to the recovery of Mahoney’s body and/or the prosecution of those responsible for her disappearance. The Oneida Indian Nation also is offering a reward of $20,000.

Anyone with information can contact the local FBI office at (315) 731-1781.
 
An FBI file photo of Tammy Mahoney. (PHOTO PROVIDED)
ONEIDA, N.Y. — Representatives from the FBI joined state and local police at Troop D state police headquarters in Oneida earlier in the week to announce additional resources have been allocated towards solving the disappearance of Tammy Mahoney.

The announcement came forty-two years to the day after Mahoney, a 19-year-old student at SUNY Morrisville, disappeared.

“Tammy was taken from her family 42 years ago, and she deserves to be able to come home and be buried with her parents,” said Janeen DiGuiseppi, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Albany Field Office.

“Her family deserves to understand what happened and bring those to justice.”

She continued, “I know that there are individuals out there that know what happened and can come forward and help resolve this investigation. and bring Tammy home.”
Images of Oneida resident Tammy Mahoney, who disappeared in May 1981, on display Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2020, at the FBI's Syracuse resident agency.

 
Her long-lost little sister Tammy, last seen on a tiny Native American reservation in Oneida, NY, in 1981 and believed to have been gang-raped and murdered, came to her in a disturbing dream.
Tammy Mahoney.

Police told The Post that they think they’ve known who killed her from the start.

At least 13 people were present at a party in a trailer on the Oneida Nation Territory, a small reservation in Oneida which was then a ramshackle, mud-filled stretch of land filled with mobile homes.

Investigators say it was “suggested” to them by these witnesses that Mahoney, who may have known some Oneida Nation members, was gang-raped and killed.

At the time of her disappearance, local police were not allowed on the Oneida Territory without permission and there had been violence between the residents and law enforcement at times

“It’s like she won’t rest until this case is solved,” Mahoney said.

Cops say she was taken to the nearby 32-acre Oneida Nation Territory in what people up here, including the Natives, still call “Indian country.”

The FBI held a news conference in May saying the case was still active and that several new witnesses have come forward.

Recently, the State Police’s Major Crimes and Cold Case units joined the investigation.

“We know who the bad guys are and they know that we know,” said former Oneida Police detective and former Madison County Undersheriff Doug Bailey, 76, who’s been investigating the case for decades. “I hope they still are looking over their shoulder every minute of every day of their life. They’re local, they’re here … I see them in the aisles at Walmart.”
 

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