Overview
- An Nassau County grand jury indicted Andrew Dykes, 66, in the murder of Tanya Denise Jackson, long known as “Peaches,” and he was arrested near Tampa.
- Dykes appeared in a Hillsborough County courtroom and is being held on a New York fugitive warrant pending extradition to Long Island.
- Florida court coverage reports a second-degree murder charge, and Dykes told the judge he wants to return to New York to defend himself.
- Investigators publicly identified Jackson and her daughter, Tatiana, in April 2025 through DNA and genetic genealogy, with Texas records listing Dykes as the child’s father.
- Authorities have not charged Dykes in the toddler’s death, and officials have treated the mother–daughter case as distinct from the Gilgo Beach murders linked to Rex Heuermann.