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

[summergirl1]

Long Island cold case murder: Birth certificate led to suspected killer Andrew Dykes arrest | abc7ny.com

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[Inthedetails]

Long Island cold case murder: Birth certificate led to suspected killer Andrew Dykes arrest | abc7ny.com

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From the link:

"We look at Tanya's life and we say it a life of service," Boyce said. "She was in the military. She was working in in Brooklyn, working hard, supporting your child and this happened."

 

[Ruminations]

I'm not saying that Andrew being charged with murdering the Tanya will surprise me, being that it is very suspicious that he didn't seem to get involved with looking for his baby girl -and nor did any of her paternal relatives get involved in looking for her. That is really unusual. But- maybe he didn't know about her.

But was his alleged victim named on any LE documents? I know MSM such as ABC news is directly reporting that he is arrested in Tanya's death, and he is a very viable suspect, but I have only seen that he is charged with a murder.

Again, a family member/romantic partner is most likely. But it is possible that he was not aware of his daughter until police were investigating her death. And it's possible the peach tattoos came after he was with Tanya. He didn't seem a suspect at all to me until this news.

Suffolk is laying low on this case. There are so many speculative reasons for that which contradict one another.

So I guess we just wait for the indictment against Andrew and to see what, if anything, Suffolk has to say.

MOO

 

[FromGermany1]

What prior training does he have, that would enable him to defend himself?

Is he the doc, Tanya was possibly working for after military?

 

[Ladyotm]

Do we know if they lived together? What did he tell his and her family about her missing? Does anyone think someone in his family knew?

I bet there was evidence leading directly to him. We haven't heard anything else about her car. Maybe they were able to tie him to its disappearance as well.

I'm with a lot of other people, didn't expect an arrest so soon.

 

[Nikynoo]

Shows the two locations wherre Tanya Jackson's remains were found

The site where Tanya Denise Jackson was found

In June 1997, the remains of Tanya Denis Jackson (Peaches Doe) were discovered at this site in Hempstead Lake State Park, New York.

oddstops.com

A lot of useful I formation in this article. Thank you for posting!

 

[summergirl1]

Shows the two locations wherre Tanya Jackson's remains were found

The site where Tanya Denise Jackson was found

In June 1997, the remains of Tanya Denis Jackson (Peaches Doe) were discovered at this site in Hempstead Lake State Park, New York.

oddstops.com

This article says they didn't live together at the time of the murders at least (to answer another member's question above), and has a picture of the building where she and her daughter lived. Tatiana's father Andrew lived nearby.

 

[Nikynoo]

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The article I commented on above said that they were both living in Brooklyn at the time Tanya went missing but they were not living together. Allegedly, Andrew ‘fled’ NY afterwards.

 

[TOMBISHOP]

Non so perché, ma è molto difficile trovare una mappa che mostri il luogo in cui sono stati trovati il torso di Tanya Jackson, alias "Peaches", e Tatiana Dykes a Gilgo Beach, ma è qui. Bisogna ingrandire la mappa e guardare le icone dei teschi: Luoghi degli omicidi di Gilgo Beach Luoghi degli omicidi di Gilgo Beach

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[sds71]

Aundrey Dykes, 43, of Orlando, Florida, told Newsday his father, Andrew, is a loving dad and retired Army veteran and Tennessee state trooper whose family was aware of his relationship with the woman he is now accused of killing and the child they shared...

Dykes said investigators questioned him a year ago, about two months after first approaching his father.
They asked if he knew he had a sister who was killed. They also brought up his father’s relationship with a different woman he has a daughter with, suggesting the two affairs overlapped in 1997.Dykes said his father and Jackson shared posts at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas, while both serving in the Army.

He said his mother, Joyce Dykes, learned of his father’s relationship with Jackson at the hospital on the night Tatiana was born.Dykes said the Army was also aware of the relationship and Tatiana was covered by his father’s military health insurance.

'It's just not possible,' says son of man charged with murder of Gilgo Beach victim

Aundrey Dykes, of Orlando, Florida, said his father, Andrew, is a loving dad and retired Army veteran and Tennessee state trooper whose family was aware of his relationship with the woman he is accused of killing and the child they shared.

www.newsday.com

 

[beubeubeu]

Even if he's somehow not responsible for their deaths, calling a guy who never wondered seriously enough where is his daughter and why he havent heard anything from her or her mother in so many years "loving dad" is inappropriate.
Loving parent loves and cares about all their children.

 

[Inthedetails]

Aundrey Dykes, 43, of Orlando, Florida, told Newsday his father, Andrew, is a loving dad and retired Army veteran and Tennessee state trooper whose family was aware of his relationship with the woman he is now accused of killing and the child they shared...

Dykes said investigators questioned him a year ago, about two months after first approaching his father.
They asked if he knew he had a sister who was killed. They also brought up his father’s relationship with a different woman he has a daughter with, suggesting the two affairs overlapped in 1997.Dykes said his father and Jackson shared posts at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas, while both serving in the Army.

He said his mother, Joyce Dykes, learned of his father’s relationship with Jackson at the hospital on the night Tatiana was born.Dykes said the Army was also aware of the relationship and Tatiana was covered by his father’s military health insurance.

'It's just not possible,' says son of man charged with murder of Gilgo Beach victim

Aundrey Dykes, of Orlando, Florida, said his father, Andrew, is a loving dad and retired Army veteran and Tennessee state trooper whose family was aware of his relationship with the woman he is accused of killing and the child they shared.

www.newsday.com

Curious if the family ever wondered what happened to little Tatiana. Did Andrew just stop talking about her or did he tell lies to explain why she wasn't in his life?

jmopinion

 

[CuriousCricket]

Curious if the family ever wondered what happened to little Tatiana. Did Andrew just stop talking about her or did he tell lies to explain why she wasn't in his life?

jmopinion

exactly. What he told his family is vital to the case as I see it. Since the family knew about Tatiana, he had no reason to kill her, even if he did kill the mother. He could have taken her home -- knowing it would naturally be a huge situation, but not as huge as killing your own baby -- and said the mother brought her to him, telling him she couldn't raise her and was running away. Not to try to find her.

The baby being killed . . . or wrapped in a blanket and left to die. no, not if his family knew about her. Makes no sense to me.

 

[summergirl1]

The article says his son sometimes wondered about what had happened to his half sister, Tatiana, but that he did not know. He once reached out on social media to a woman he thought might be her, but received no response. He didn't know what happened to Tanya, either.

I get the impression Andrew may have implied that Tanya didn't want contact with him or his family, and neither did Tatiana. Probably not so much direct lies, but an implication that Tanya wanted to live her own life in her own way. If his family knew Tanya was largely estranged from her own family, that would make such a implication even more believable.

Tatiana would have been an adult about 12 years ago. But even then, his family, or at least the one son (I assume the daughter of the other affair knew of her half sister, but I'm unsure?) seem to have assumed she wanted no contact or didn't know how to find her father's family. He had two sons by his marriage, the article says, but it doesn't mention the other one. It sounds like Tanya/ Tatiana probably became a taboo topic in his family over the years. He and his wife that he cheated on, finally separated a few years ago according to the article, and she now has dementia.

 

[DS2021]

'It's just not possible,' says son of man charged with murder of Gilgo Beach victim

Aundrey Dykes, of Orlando, Florida, said his father, Andrew, is a loving dad and retired Army veteran and Tennessee state trooper whose family was aware of his relationship with the woman he is accused of killing and the child they shared.

www.newsday.com

Aundrey Dykes said he was contacted by an investigator the day after his father’s arrest.

“[The detective] said there was DNA at the scene and that he was 100% certain that my dad committed the murders,” the son said.

 

[pixiepixel]

'It's just not possible,' says son of man charged with murder of Gilgo Beach victim

Aundrey Dykes, of Orlando, Florida, said his father, Andrew, is a loving dad and retired Army veteran and Tennessee state trooper whose family was aware of his relationship with the woman he is accused of killing and the child they shared.

www.newsday.com

Aundrey Dykes said he was contacted by an investigator the day after his father’s arrest.

“[The detective] said there was DNA at the scene and that he was 100% certain that my dad committed the murders,” the son said.

A lot of Dykes' DNA "at the scene" could be explained away as normal transfer since he and Tanya had at one point been romantically involved and still saw each other semi-regularly (just like Asa and Victoria's hairs transferred to RH, although they weren't the killers). So, I'm assuming they found his DNA in a spot that would have only been associated with the killer - perhaps on the handles of the rubbermaid container Tanya was placed in. Just my speculation.

 

[MarziPanda]

exactly. What he told his family is vital to the case as I see it. Since the family knew about Tatiana, he had no reason to kill her, even if he did kill the mother. He could have taken her home -- knowing it would naturally be a huge situation, but not as huge as killing your own baby -- and said the mother brought her to him, telling him she couldn't raise her and was running away. Not to try to find her.

The baby being killed . . . or wrapped in a blanket and left to die. no, not if his family knew about her. Makes no sense to me.

I doubt he thought he'd be able to get away with murdering Tanya and bringing Tatiana into his marital home. Even if his wife put up with the infidelity, very few women would agree to raise their husband's affair baby. And fewer still, I think, would have no questions about what happened to the mother. I would think a lot would try to track her down to demand child support, and if you turn up at a missing woman's job/house and find she mysteriously disappeared, well...

And if the wife simply said no, what does he do with Tatiana then? Giving her up for adoption comes with far too many awkward questions and investigations by social services.

Tatiana, too, would have grown up and asked uncomfortable questions. So sadly he probably decided leaving her alive was a loose end he couldn't risk having.

The motive could have been financial... No child means no child support. If he brought Tatiana home, that's still another baby he has to pay for. I can't imagine anyone looking at Tatiana's sweet face and wanting to harm her, but some people are truly monsters in disguise.

 

[Inthedetails]

I doubt he thought he'd be able to get away with murdering Tanya and bringing Tatiana into his marital home. Even if his wife put up with the infidelity, very few women would agree to raise their husband's affair baby. And fewer still, I think, would have no questions about what happened to the mother. I would think a lot would try to track her down to demand child support, and if you turn up at a missing woman's job/house and find she mysteriously disappeared, well...

And if the wife simply said no, what does he do with Tatiana then? Giving her up for adoption comes with far too many awkward questions and investigations by social services.

Tatiana, too, would have grown up and asked uncomfortable questions. So sadly he probably decided leaving her alive was a loose end he couldn't risk having.

The motive could have been financial... No child means no child support. If he brought Tatiana home, that's still another baby he has to pay for. I can't imagine anyone looking at Tatiana's sweet face and wanting to harm her, but some people are truly monsters in disguise.

I think it had to do with financial support too. If the family knew about the affair and the baby, there was nothing to hide. So, it likely had to do with money, imo.

Or, revenge, if the affair caused him problems? idk

jmo