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

[fsngruv]

Checking out the Davidson County civil Court look up page... It appears Mr. Dykes had a hard time holding up the financial care for at least one child. He spent a lot of time in court fighting the woman who was named as his wife at the time of the crime, requesting many motions to dismiss his financial obligation to his child, his own name sake. I'm not sure that he ever paid child support for any of his children, and if he did he ran or fought it. Hard to imagine a "great father" avoiding the financial responsibility to his children. CaseSearch

 

[summergirl1]

His one son in the article obviously is in a lot of denial. That happens sometimes with the family of those suspected/convicted in murder cases..

 

[snarast]

Yes after reading that it sure is not looking good for Andrew Dykes. It does not look good. At all.

That said, it is good if belated police work it seems to me.

IMHOO

 

[Ruminations]

Yes after reading that it sure is not looking good for Andrew Dykes. It does not look good. At all.

That said, it is good if belated police work it seems to me.

IMHOO

If his DNA is so damning, and his relationship to Tanya and Tatiana was not a secret, and given that a close relative is about the first theory to explore in a murder, why did this arrest take so long? Any theories?

MOO

Edited to add: If Tanya ever applied for TANF or MA for Tatiana, the county where she lived would seek child/medical support for her to minimize public expense and help secure Tatiana's financial independence.

 

[fsngruv]

If his DNA is so damning, and his relationship to Tanya and Tatiana was not a secret, and given that a close relative is about the first theory to explore in a murder, why did this arrest take so long? Any theories?

MOO

Edited to add: If Tanya ever applied for TANF or MA for Tatiana, the county where she lived would seek child/medical support for her to minimize public expense and help secure Tatiana's financial independence.

I have a feeling the arrest took so long, simply because Tanya and Tatiana were unidentified for so long. I'm actually very surprised there was an arrest but I'm glad. I'm looking forward to the trial. I have a feeling AD is narcissistic and has no interest in pleading out.

 

[The4TierBridge]

If his DNA is so damning, and his relationship to Tanya and Tatiana was not a secret, and given that a close relative is about the first theory to explore in a murder, why did this arrest take so long? Any theories?

MOO

Edited to add: If Tanya ever applied for TANF or MA for Tatiana, the county where she lived would seek child/medical support for her to minimize public expense and help secure Tatiana's financial independence.

It’s only been a few months since the identifications of the bodies were publicly announced (but likely about 2 years since when the authorities first tentatively identified them). That doesn’t seem very long to me.

 

[sds71]

@MaryMurphyMedia
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Once again, an “abandoned drink cup” by a murder suspect leads to a DNA match. The Nassau County DA says Andrew Dykes’ DNA on the cup matched DNA on Tanya #Peaches Jackson’s remains. Her torso was found in a green cooler near Hempstead Lake in 1997.

#Grisly new info about Tanya Jackson’s dismemberment in June 1997:This victim was killed by “a process that was done with surgical precision,” according to Nassau prosecutors. Sgt. Andrew Dykes was an operating room technician in the military.

Sgt. Andrew Dykes repeatedly denied having an intimate relationship with Tanya Jackson in the days/weeks before her murder. But vaginal swabs of the victim’s dismembered torso “showed this defendant’s semen,” according to the Nassau County prosecutor.

The Nassau County DA’s office said Private 1st Class Tanya Jackson met her accused killer when Sgt. Andrew Dykes was teaching a physiology class at a U.S. Army base in Texas. He was married but ultimately fathered a baby girl with Tanya.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2001678557953601882

 

[sds71]

Florida man pleads not guilty in 1997 killing of young mother once linked to Gilgo Beach murders

A retired Army veteran and state trooper from Florida pleaded not guilty Thursday in the 1997 killing of a young mother that had long been tied to an infamous...

www.whas11.com

 

[Inthedetails]

@MaryMurphyMedia
https://x.com/MaryMurphyMedia

Once again, an “abandoned drink cup” by a murder suspect leads to a DNA match. The Nassau County DA says Andrew Dykes’ DNA on the cup matched DNA on Tanya #Peaches Jackson’s remains. Her torso was found in a green cooler near Hempstead Lake in 1997.

#Grisly new info about Tanya Jackson’s dismemberment in June 1997:This victim was killed by “a process that was done with surgical precision,” according to Nassau prosecutors. Sgt. Andrew Dykes was an operating room technician in the military.

Sgt. Andrew Dykes repeatedly denied having an intimate relationship with Tanya Jackson in the days/weeks before her murder. But vaginal swabs of the victim’s dismembered torso “showed this defendant’s semen,” according to the Nassau County prosecutor.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2001678557953601882

Whoa. They've got the evidence.

jmopinion

 

[sds71]

Whoa. They've got the evidence.

jmopinion

New photo released of #TatianaDykes, closer to age she was when she was killed in 1997, along with her mother. Tatiana was found on Ocean Parkway in 2011, wrapped in a blanket. Her mother’s extremities were discovered more than a dozen miles away.

 

[summergirl1]

Chilling details revealed in case of woman, baby found dead on Gilgo Beach

A former Florida state trooper and corrections officer allegedly killed and dismembered a woman who wanted to start a life with him after an affair and a baby, then dumped her remains along Gilgo Beach almost 30 years ago, prosecutors say. Andrew Dykes, 66, pleaded not guilty Thursday to...

www-nbcnewyork-com.cdn.ampproject.org

 

[MarziPanda]

New photo released of #TatianaDykes, closer to age she was when she was killed in 1997, along with her mother. Tatiana was found on Ocean Parkway in 2011, wrapped in a blanket. Her mother’s extremities were discovered more than a dozen miles away.

How could anyone hurt that sweet little baby? Horrific.

 

[fsngruv]

Chilling details revealed in case of woman, baby found dead on Gilgo Beach

A former Florida state trooper and corrections officer allegedly killed and dismembered a woman who wanted to start a life with him after an affair and a baby, then dumped her remains along Gilgo Beach almost 30 years ago, prosecutors say. Andrew Dykes, 66, pleaded not guilty Thursday to...

www-nbcnewyork-com.cdn.ampproject.org

"Back in 1997, officials say the toddler’s father was cooperating and not considered a suspect."

This quote from the article has me thinking... Were Tanya and Tatiana considered "missing" in 1997?

 

[summergirl1]

I'm not sure? I wonder if that was a typo. The article I posted gives a motive for Tanya's murder. She wanted to start a life with Dykes, but to him she was obviously just less than serious girlfriend, and he didn't intend to leave his wife/or possibly stop seeing the other woman he had a child with. He may have had more affairs going, too/liked to have casual sex/relationships outside his marriage. He probably killed Tatiana as a casualty of the situation, but I doubt he ever intended to have a child with Tanya.

His medical background contributing to how Tanya was dismembered is very sad. It reminds me of the speculation for decades that Elizabeth Short's killer perhaps had a medical background.

 

[summergirl1]

"Dykes was transferred to the base in Brooklyn under the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge in 1995 and Jackson joined him shortly thereafter. He held the lease on her Sunset Park apartment, prosecutors said"..

Quote from the article below, which is behind a paywall, but very worth reading. It also has a new photo of Tanya.

Suspect in killing of Gilgo Beach victim 'Peaches' pleads not guilty to murder charges

Andrew Dykes had been extradited from Florida on Wednesday where he had been in jail since a Nassau grand jury indicted him for second-degree murder on Dec. 3.

www.newsday.com

 

[Inthedetails]

"Dykes was transferred to the base in Brooklyn under the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge in 1995 and Jackson joined him shortly thereafter. He held the lease on her Sunset Park apartment, prosecutors said"..

Quote from the article below, which is behind a paywall, but very worth reading. It also has a new photo of Tanya.

Suspect in killing of Gilgo Beach victim 'Peaches' pleads not guilty to murder charges

Andrew Dykes had been extradited from Florida on Wednesday where he had been in jail since a Nassau grand jury indicted him for second-degree murder on Dec. 3.

www.newsday.com

That must have been Fort Hamilton.

jmopinion

 

[summergirl1]

Ex-cop charged with killing Gilgo Beach victim ‘Peaches’ pleads not guilty — lawyer says he’ll challenge DNA evidence

The ex-Florida state trooper charged with murdering Gilgo Beach victim “Peaches” — whose slaying was thought to be the work of a serial killer — pleaded not guilty Thursday in Long Isla…

nypost.com

 

[summergirl1]

Florida Man Pleads Not Guilty in 1997 Killing of Young Mother Once Linked to Gilgo Beach Murders

A retired Army veteran pleaded not guilty Thursday in the 1997 killing of a young mother that had long been tied to an infamous string of murders near New York’s

www.wktv.com

 

[summergirl1]

That must have been Fort Hamilton.

jmopinion

Yes, the article above confirms that it was.