Remains identified of murdered woman and child found near New York beach

Crime scene investigators use metal detectors to search a marsh for the remains of a victim Picture: James Carbone/AP

A woman and her child, whose remains were discovered scattered along an oceanfront road not far from Gilgo Beach in New York’s Long Island, were identified by police, nearly three decades after they first went missing.

Police in Nassau County said the mother, previously nicknamed “Peaches” by investigators after a tattoo on her body, had been identified as Tanya Denise Jackson, a US army veteran who was 26 at the time of her death.