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FL Man Arrested in Cold Case Murder of “Peaches” Once Linked to Gilgo Beach Serial Killings | Crime Alert 6AM 12.07.25 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alert I means he grace breaking crime news now
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  Speaker 1: straight out to Nicole Parton for the latest.
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  Speaker 2: For years, the brutal nineteen ninety seven killing of a
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  Speaker 2: young woman in a Long Island state park seemed destined
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  Speaker 2: to remain unsolved. Her body was dismembered, left unidentifiable except
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  Speaker 2: for a tattoo of a peach. That changed in twenty
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  Speaker 2: eleven when investigators searching near Gilgo Beach uncovered new skeletal
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  Speaker 2: fragments and the remains of her two year old daughter.
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  Speaker 2: Those discoveries became part of the now infamous Gilgo Beach investigation,
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  Speaker 2: where multiple women were found murdered along a remote stretch
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  Speaker 2: of sand. This week, there's been a major development. Police
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  Speaker 2: have arrested Andrew Dikes, sixty six, in connection with the
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  Speaker 2: killing of the woman, now identified as Tanya Denise Jackson.
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  Speaker 2: Dykes is also the father of Jackson's daughter, Tatiana Marie Jackson.
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  Speaker 2: Authorities say Dikes was taken into custody in Ti Tampa, Florida,
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  Speaker 2: and is being held in Hillsborough County Jail awaiting extradition
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  Speaker 2: to Long Island. The Nassau County District Attorney's office declined
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  Speaker 2: to comment, and the name of Dyke's attorney has not
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  Speaker 2: been released yet. Jackson, known for years only as Peaches
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  Speaker 2: because of her tattoo, was twenty six years old when
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  Speaker 2: she died. A Gulf War veteran originally from Mobile, Alabama,
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  Speaker 2: she had been living in Brooklyn with her daughter at
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  Speaker 2: the time of her disappearance and was largely estranged from
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  Speaker 2: her family. Investigators confirmed her identity earlier this year using
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  Speaker 2: advanced DNA and genealogy techniques. What it comes down to
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  Speaker 2: is was there enough to show from the scalp remains
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  Speaker 2: of the infant that there was a murder?
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  Speaker 1: And that's what it comes down to. It's called your
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  Speaker 1: manner of death and cause of death.
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  Speaker 2: Officials say there is no apparent link between Dykes and
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  Speaker 2: Rex Huerman, the Long Island architect charged in seven of
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  Speaker 2: the Gilgo Beach murders. In total, ten sets of human
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  Speaker 2: remains were found along the beach Parkway, leading police to
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  Speaker 2: believe the area may have been a dumping ground for
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  Speaker 2: more than one killer. Nancy. Additional details on Dike's arrest
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  Speaker 2: are expected in the coming days as he is extradited
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  Speaker 2: to New York.
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  Speaker 1: Nicole thank you more Primate Justice names after.
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  Speaker 2: This Trinity, Pogue was convicted on five charges, including two
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  Speaker 2: counts of felony murder, on Friday, December five. As reported
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  Speaker 2: in a video sentencing shared by Court TV, Judge James Sizemore,
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  Speaker 2: Junior of the Southwestern Circuit Court of Georgia, stated during
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  Speaker 2: the proceedings quote, I don't usually elaborate on handing down
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  Speaker 2: a sentence. However, the reality is that you will serve
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  Speaker 2: a life sentence, which is fitting for the crimes you've
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  Speaker 2: been found guilty of. Additionally, the judge announced that Pogue
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  Speaker 2: would face an extra twenty years in prison to be
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  Speaker 2: served concurrently. Throughout the sentencing, Pogue maintained a compose demeanor.
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  Speaker 2: Although this she displays significant emotion earlier that day. Upon
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  Speaker 2: hearing the jury's decision, Pogue was arrested in January twenty four,
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  Speaker 2: according to a press release from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.
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  Speaker 2: The agency reported that a boy later identified as Romeo
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  Speaker 2: Angeli's also known as Jaxton Drew, was discovered unresponsive on
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  Speaker 2: a campus of Georgia Southwestern State University on January fourteen,
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty four, where Pogue, then eighteen, was a student.
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  Speaker 2: During her trial, Prosecutors alleged that Pogue harbored resentment towards
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  Speaker 2: the child because she desired to have a baby with
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  Speaker 2: her boyfriend, the child's father. In an indictment previously covered
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  Speaker 2: by w ALB, authorities in Sumter County described the abuse
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  Speaker 2: as involving blunt forced trauma to the head and torso.
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  Speaker 2: On the day the toddler died, fellow students in Pogue's
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  Speaker 2: dorm recounted hearing a child crying for an extended period
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  Speaker 2: of time until it abruptly ended, as reported by Lily Waterman,
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  Speaker 2: a student at the university, and so no one knew
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  Speaker 2: what happened. Waterman said, we knew we heard crying, and
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  Speaker 2: then all of a sudden it stopped. Did a baby die?
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  Speaker 2: She questioned. In twenty twenty four, Pogue was crowned Miss Donaldsonville,
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  Speaker 2: but lost her title following the charges related to the
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  Speaker 2: toddler's death. According to Early County News. For now, she
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  Speaker 2: will spend the next thirty years behind bars before she
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  Speaker 2: is eligible for parole.
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  Speaker 1: Kimberly Moore moves from Dallas, Texas, to Ringo, Louisiana to
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  Speaker 1: live with their partner, Vernon Parker, just in time for Thanksgiving.
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  Speaker 1: The couple spends the next month settling in and they
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  Speaker 1: attend a New Year's Eve party together. On New Year's Day,
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  Speaker 1: Vernon Parker is found shot dead in the backseat of
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  Speaker 1: his running car. The last time anyone saw Kimberly was
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  Speaker 1: at the party the night before. Police now believed Kimberly
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  Speaker 1: Moore may have witnessed parker shooting and could be in
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  Speaker 1: danger or worse. Kimberly Moore now missing over a year.
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  Speaker 1: If you have info on Kimberly Moore, please call Bienville Parish,
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  Speaker 1: Louisiana Sheriffs at three one eight two six three two
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  Speaker 1: to find missing people, especially children, and help solve unsolved homicides.
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  Speaker 1: With this crime alert, I'm Nancy Grace