Tanya & Tatiana #TipTuesday #Gilgo #TanyaDeniseJackson #TatianaMarieDykes Did you happen to work with Tanya, or visited her job and remember her? If you know anything, no matter how insignificant, please say something..anonymously, you can use the Nassau County Crime Stoppers tip line at 1-800-244-TIPS (8477) #catchlisk

#BethEllenVinson It's #TipTuesday and we need your help to bring more attention to Beth-Ellen's #Unresolved murder and to bring more pressure to Raleigh, North Carolina PD. On August 23, 1994, approximately four weeks after Beth Ellen Vinson, a 17-year-old white female, left her home in Goldsboro, North Carolina, and went to Raleigh to work and save enough money to get to New York, her body was found. Ms. Vinson’s body had been covered with cardboard, and left between two warehouses on Wicker Road. Ms. Vinson who worked for an escort service was last seen at 2:30 a.m. on August 16, 1994, when she left her apartment to meet a client. At 5:30 a.m. her 1990 white four door Mazda 626 was found at the entrance of a car dealership on Capital Boulevard. Continuing investigation of this homicide, determined that Ms. Vinson was in possession of four pieces of jewelry and a multi-colored cloth purse the morning of her homicide. These items have never been recovered. Medical examination disclosed that Ms. Vinson had been stabbed in excess of 15 times. To learn more about Beth-Ellen and her case, you can listen to the previous episodes on Spotify or Apple podcast by searching, Who Killed Beth-Ellen. You can also join the Facebook group to share in the conversations and be among the first to know when new episodes drop. If you have information about Beth-Ellen's case, please call 1-866-tips-4-BE or email WhoKilledBethEllen@gmail.com fbi.gov/wanted/vicap/homicid…

Victims’ families should never have to watch offenders or their family or surrogates profit from violence, trauma, and notoriety. Join the fight for accountability by urging NY lawmakers to pass #A6730 and strengthen New York’s Son of Sam laws. Call your representatives. Share this message. Demand action. #PassA6730 #JusticeForVictims #SonOfSamLaw #Gilgo @judygriffinny @LeroyComrie @NYSA_Majority Email: griffinj@nyassembly.gov Email: comrie@nysenate.gov Sample Script: docs.google.com/document/d/1…

'Peaches' case: New DNA test ordered for Andrew Dykes, charged with killing a woman previously associated with the Gilgo Beach serial murder case.. A Nassau County judge on Tuesday ordered a former Tennessee state trooper charged with killing and dismembering his former lover to submit DNA for prosecutors to compare with previous samples, according to court papers. Andrew Dykes, 66, of Florida, pleaded not guilty last December under an indictment for the second-degree murder of Tonya Denise Jackson, whose 1997 death was once tied to the Gilgo Beach serial murders. Dykes and Jackson had met in the military and had a 2-year-old girl, Tatiana Marie Dykes. The toddler's remains were also found near the remains of other women whose killings were eventually determined to have been committed by the Gilgo Beach serial killer, now known to be Rex A. Heuermann. No one has been charged in Tatiana's killing, but the district attorney has said Dykes is the prime suspect in her death. Jackson and the toddler were living in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, according to prosecutors, when they disappeared. The district attorney said that Dykes, who also lived in Brooklyn, never reported them missing. Jackson’s dismembered body was found in a Rubbermaid container emitting a foul odor by a man taking part in a fishing clinic at Hempstead Lake Park on June 28, 1997, authorities said. Forensic lab technicians recovered sperm from a vaginal swab during the autopsy, prosecutors said. At the time, the remains had not been identified, so investigators called her “Peaches” based on the distinctive tattoo she had. Tatiana’s body was found dumped off Ocean Parkway near Jones Beach in 2011. Investigators determined the two were mother and daughter because both wore similar pieces of jewelry and DNA testing in 2023 confirmed it, according to authorities. A birth certificate in Texas reported Dykes to be the father of Tatiana and Nassau County investigators visited him in Florida in October 2024 to discuss the murders. He denied being involved, but detectives were able to return from the visit with a discarded drink straw from which they extracted a DNA sample. Comparing the DNA from the straw with the genetic material from the vaginal swab taken from Jackson, forensic technicians concluded that it was “12 million times” more probable that both samples came from Dykes than from someone else. Now, prosecutors seek to take another DNA sample from a swab of Dykes cheek to further compare under a more controlled environment. In court papers, defense attorney Joseph LoPiccolo opposed the additional sample, saying it violated his client’s constitutional right against an unreasonable search and seizure. He said, “The mere presence of sperm does not establish that Mr. Dykes was involved in the death of Ms. Jackson. There are no other evidentiary factors, physical or scientific, which connect the presence of DNA from Mr. Dykes to the crime of Murder.” LoPiccolo asked that if state Supreme Court Justice Tammy Robbins authorized the cheek swab, there should be two samples — one for the defense and one for the prosecution. Dykes lawyer also asked the judge to limit local and federal law enforcement to use the new sample only for comparison in the Jackson murder case — not any other unsolved crimes. On Tuesday, the judge signed an order based on the prosecutor’s request to have Nassau County police take a cheek swab from Dykes on May 15, his next court date. @Janon_Fisher newsday.com/long-island/crim…

Cold case murder of Long Island mom, Barbara Waldman, solved 52 years later.. Eric Waldman brushed the snow away from his mother’s headstone at Beth Moses Cemetery in West Babylon as his brother Larry Waldman and sister Marla Waldman Conn stood nearby. "Hey, mom, miss you, love you, wish you were here," he said. "And they found your murderer." "It’s over," Marla said. Their mother, Barbara Waldman, was murdered in their Oceanside home in 1974. The crime remained unsolved until late last year, when the Nassau County Police Department told the family they closed the case after identifying a suspect, who had died in 2004. Local and federal law enforcement are expected to announce the development at a news conference on Wednesday, according to a person familiar with the investigation. The family contacted Newsday recently after seeing the Newsday documentary, "The Forgotten," on WLIW/21. The documentary chronicled the cold cases of women murdered on Long Island. Haunted for decades.. For 52 years, the murder of Barbara Waldman has haunted her children, who were 5, 6 and 7 years old when their mother was killed. They went on with their lives, had their own families and moved off Long Island. But the case never left them. Eric was the one who found her. He got off the bus from kindergarten and went to the front door expecting to see his mother there, but didn’t. He went upstairs to her bedroom. That’s where he found her. "She was tied up in dark stockings. There was one around her neck. She had a pillowcase in her mouth, and I saw a hole in her head," he recalled. He tried to untie her, but the knot seemed to tighten when he did. Then he thought he heard a noise in the closet. Terrified, he ran out to a neighbor’s house. The first neighbor didn’t believe him, he said, so he ran to another neighbor’s house. They agreed to check. They found her. He remembers looking out his neighbor’s window and seeing his mother’s body being carried out under a sheet. 📷Barbara and Gerald Waldman in 1971.  Credit: Waldman Family Barbara Waldman was 31 years old. She had graduated from New York University with a teaching degree, but stayed home to rear her children. A blonde, she was vibrant, fun-loving and nurturing, her children said. She was always singing and dancing with her children, and toys were scattered all over the house. The morning of the murder, she had been planning to go dress shopping, Marla said. Their block on Sally Lane in Oceanside was a tightknit neighborhood, where the children all played with each other and parents vacationed together. It was a new development, and young families with children all moved in around the same time, said Stanley Roban, a family friend. "People were comfortable leaving their doors open," he said. "After that, no." Roban had just come home after doing his turn in the neighborhood carpool when Barbara’s husband, Gerald Waldman, called him. He arrived at the house and saw his friend looking down and saying, "They killed my Barbara." 'Us against the world' Thirty detectives descended on the scene. They set up a special trailer at the corner of Mott and Oceanside roads to collect information, but had few clues. The medical examiner said she had died of strangulation and a bullet wound, according to Newsday stories at the time. Detectives questioned Waldman, but he was working at his dental office at the time of the killing. Years later, he voluntarily gave police a DNA swab, and testing ruled him out as a suspect, family members said. Neighbors gave police a description of the man they saw walking away from the house on the day of the murder. A police artist produced a composite sketch of a man with a mustache wearing a fur-lined snorkel jacket, a hooded winter parka. But they never matched the sketch to a suspect. A composite of the suspect in Barbara's killing.  Credit: NCPD It fell to Waldman, who died in 2007, to explain to his children what happened. He gathered them together the night of the murder and said, "A bad man came in the house, and your mom’s in heaven. She’s not coming home." He never spoke about it again. Neither did the children. Their mother’s pictures came off the walls. "It was something that we all silently decided," Marla said. "We never talked about it." Their father beefed up their home security. He bought an alarm and two German shepherds. To this day, both Larry and Eric said they share an obsession with security. Larry can’t sleep without his Doberman. Eric checks door locks repeatedly. Waldman remarried within six months. Years later, Marla asked him what he was thinking. He told her, "I was thinking I was going to jump off the top of a building, and I needed a mother for my children." There was a falling-out with their mother’s side of the family because they blamed him for her murder, the children said. Neighbors gossiped, too. "We knew it was there," Marla said. But their father was adamant that they not let the rumors drive them apart. "It was us against the world," Larry said. They moved around the corner to a different house. They never went back to Sally Lane, even though they had friends there. A break in the case... Police zeroed in on a suspect in prison who confessed to the murder. But when they tested his DNA years later, it wasn’t a match. The case went cold. Marla periodically called the department to ask if there had been any developments, but was told police couldn’t reopen the case without new evidence, she said. Then in December 2022, Eric read a news story that serial killer Richard Cottingham was set to plead guilty to the 1968 murder of dance teacher Diane Cusick outside the Green Acres Mall in Valley Stream after semen found on the victim was retested. He called his sister, who called the police department. The department agreed to reopen the case. After about eight months, they learned there was no match to Cottingham, Marla said. She pushed the department to try genetic genealogy, a forensic technique that compares DNA from a crime victim or suspect with genetic profiles in publicly available DNA databases. It was used to identify the remains of Karen Vergata, whose body parts were found in 1996 on Fire Island and in 2011 near Gilgo Beach, Newsday has reported. In August 2024, Det. Gina Salerno, the Nassau homicide detective handling the investigation, called Marla. "We got a match," she told her. That wasn’t enough, however, to close the case. "I found out very quickly that just because somebody’s sperm is found at the scene of the crime does not make them a murderer," Marla said. The since-deceased suspect, who Newsday is not naming until the person is identified by police, was not a member of the family. Now that the case is closed, the siblings said they feel a sense of relief for their mother and their father. "I feel like it’s a huge ‘I’ve told you so’ for 50 years because of some people that doubted my father," Larry said. "You don’t really have closure; but I feel justice has been served, which, for me, was really important. The truth, I wanted the truth to come out," Marla said. Back at the cemetery, the siblings placed a card on their mother’s headstone from the detective who helped solve the case. The card said, "To the living, we owe respect, but to the dead we only owe the truth." The siblings then hugged each other and said, "We did it. We did it." Newsday's Jim Baumbach and NewsdayTV's Shari Einhorn contributed to this story. @sandrapeddie newsday.com/long-island/nass…