After 28 years, Long Island law enforcement has finally identified the remains of a mother and toddler discovered along an oceanfront Jones Beach highway.
On April 23, Nassau County police publicly identified the mother as U.S. Army veteran Tanya Denise Jackson, 26, of Mobile, Alabama, and her daughter Tatiana Marie Dykes, two. They were living in Brooklyn when they were killed.
Jackson’s remains were discovered in pieces. On June 28, 1997, parts of her body were found inside a plastic tub in a West Hempstead state park. In April 2011, still more of Jackson’s remains and the skeleton of her daughter were found off Ocean Parkway….