Mother, 2 year-old daughter ID'd in 1997 cold case
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Apr 23, 2025
Nassau County police have identified two murder victims from a 1997 cold case on Long Island. FOX 5 NY's Jodi Goldberg has the story.
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Well, we're also following some breaking news out of Long Island
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That's where Nassau County police have just revealed the identities of two murder victims
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from more than two decades ago. Fox News Jody Goldberg is live in Mineola with some new information on all of this
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Jody. Bianca, we knew her as Peaches, and now police have identified her as Tanya Jackson
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And we know her daughter, who was also found murdered, is Tatiana s
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Take a look at these pictures. We're seeing them for the first time just released by the Nassau County Police Department
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We're learning more about the mother and daughter found murdered in 97 and then in 2011
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We're told Tanya Denise Jackson, seen on your screen, was a 26-year-old single mom
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She was a U.S. Army veteran who was possibly employed at a doctor's office while living in Brooklyn
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As for her daughter, Tatiana Marie , she was two years old when she was found
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Tanya, who got the name Peaches because of a bitten peach tattooed on her
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her torso was first found in a container at Hempstead Lake State Park back in 1997
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Other body parts belonging to her as well as her daughter were found in 2011 at Jones Beach
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These photos you're looking at show the jewelry the two women, the two Tanya, rather
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the mother and her daughter were wearing. And this car is similar to the one police say she was driving
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Investigators tell us Tanya was born in Alabama and had ties to Georgia Texas and Missouri The ID is made possible thanks to DNA technology and advancements over the years along with a joint effort from Nassau County Police the DA office and the FBI
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The reality is our work has just begun. Knowing the identities of the mom and the little baby is just a first step
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to help us get to solving these murders. having their identities helps us now say to the public
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please, if you knew Tanya, if you worked with her, if you met her at the grocery store
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you hadn't interacted with her, please contact us and let us know
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Anybody who's in the military that might have served with her and remembers her, please get in contact with us
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Did you serve with her in the military? Were you a neighbor or a coworker during her time here in Brooklyn
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Maybe you saw them at a medical appointment where she worked or were her friends
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We want to hear from you. And now officials aren't ruling out a possible connection to the Gilgo Beach murder case
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However, sources I've spoken with over the past hour tell me it is unlikely
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We reached out to the Suffolk County District Attorney's Office. We're told the DA is not commenting on this until an unrelated hearing involving Rex Heuerman wraps up
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That's the latest here in Mineola, Long Island. Let's send it back to you. All right, Jody, thank you for that
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