00:00Gilbo Beach can be described as a dumping ground.
00:05There are a number of bodies that are not connected to the Gilbo Beach killer.
00:13It's a wasteland out there. It's probably a good place to drop a body if you.
00:23She's not the victim of a serial killer.
00:26We allege she was the victim of a man that she loved, the father of her child, Andrew Dykes.
00:35The defendant was a married man, a father of two, when he met Tanya Jackson in the Army at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas.
00:48They began a relationship in March of 1995.
00:53Tanya Jackson gave birth to her daughter, Tatiana Dykes, at a hospital in San Antonio, where both Tanya and the defendant were assigned.
01:06Dykes was a medical sergeant in the Army who began his service in 1980 and was operating as a military instructor at the time he met Tanya.
01:16He specialized in autonomy, anatomy, and physiology.
01:25Specifically, reviews of his medical military performance obtained during this investigation praised his skills in certain subjects.
01:35Skeletal, muscular, and circulatory systems to be exact.
01:43Everybody contributed to this.
01:44The FBI, the task force, the police, the Nassau County Police Department, everybody contributed to this.
01:53Did you think the location of the bodies was purely coincidental?
01:57Her body was found at Hempstead Lake State Park in a plastic container.
02:07Why she was dumped or put there, I can't answer.
02:13I don't know if he, I don't have any information on whether he, you know, ever came out to the beaches here in Long Island, which many families do.
02:23He was living in Brooklyn, he was married, he had children.
02:26I don't think we knew.
02:28Okay.
02:29This case was originally part of the Gilgo group of, you know, bodies.
02:33And so many cold cases do go unsolved.
02:36In a sense, did, did the publicity around Gilgo propel this case, which is certainly no less significant than, than Gilgo was.
02:45But in what, in what sense do you feel, I guess, the publicity around Gilgo kind of also lifted this case to public eye?
02:53I'm going to tell you something, honestly.
02:56I don't think it was Gilgo that lifted this case.
02:59It was me.
03:01It was my office in conjunction with Commissioner Ryder that I said, we need to keep working on these, you know, so-called cold cases.
03:13Um, we had been working on it before Gilgo, before the publicity, and we continue to work on it.
03:21What a spends on it.
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