A suspect has been arrested in reference to the 1997 killing of “Peaches,” a mom investigators as soon as thought was murdered by the infamous Gilgo Seaside serial killer.
Jackson’s torso was discovered stuffed right into a container in a wooded a part of Hempstead Lake State Park in June 1997. She remained unidentified for years, with authorities referring to her as “Peaches” due her distinct tattoo of the fruit.
The stays of her daughter, dubbed “Baby Doe,” had been discovered just a few miles away alongside Ocean Parkway in Nassau County in 2011, alongside different victims of the Gilgo Seaside serial killer.
Andrew Dykes. (Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Workplace)
Nassau County officers lastly recognized the mom and daughter earlier this yr by the use of genetic family tree. Jackson was a U.S. Military veteran, and was 26 when she was killed.
Rex Heuermann, an architect who lived along with his household in Massapequa Park on Lengthy Island was arrested on July 13, 2023 in reference to the Gilgo Seaside case and has since been charged with seven murders, together with six girls whose stays had been discovered close to these of “Baby Doe.”
