Overview
- A Nassau County grand jury indicted Dykes on second-degree murder in the 1997 slaying at Hempstead Lake State Park.
- He was arrested Dec. 3 in Ruskin, Florida, extradited to Nassau County, and is being held without bail pending a Jan. 16 hearing.
- Prosecutors say his DNA matches evidence from Jackson, with a sample obtained from a discarded straw in Tampa.
- Defense attorney Joseph Lo Piccolo says he will challenge the forensic evidence and describes his client as a law-abiding veteran.
- He has not been charged in the death of 2-year-old Tatiana, and investigators say the case is separate from charges against Rex Heuermann in other Gilgo-area killings.