Overview
- Andrew Dykes, 66, was taken into custody near Tampa on a Nassau County warrant and appeared before a Florida judge on Thursday on a murder charge in Tanya Jackson’s 1997 death.
- He is being held in the Hillsborough County jail on a fugitive warrant pending extradition to New York, according to records.
- Newsday reported that a Nassau County grand jury indicted Dykes and that he was arrested hours later.
- For years Jackson was known as “Peaches,” while her 2-year-old daughter, Tatiana, was found in 2011 near Gilgo Beach; Rex Heuermann has not been charged in their deaths.
- The Nassau County district attorney’s office declined to comment, after authorities in April identified the victims and offered a $25,000 reward.