A woman and her toddler killed on Long Island in 1997, whose homicide has been linked to the Gilgo Beach serial killings, ...

Police in Nassau County said the mother, previously nicknamed "Peaches" by investigators after a tattoo on her body, had been identified as a U.S. army veteran who was 26 at the time of the killing.

Tanya Denise Jackson, 26, of Mobile, had been living in Brooklyn with her 2-year-old daughter, Tatiana Marie Dykes.

The woman, who had been known as “Peaches” because of a tattoo on her torso, was thought to be the mother of a 2-year-old ...