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A New DNA Test Could Potentially Solve the Lindbergh Baby Mystery After 93 Years

created: May 9, 2025, 3:30 p.m. | updated: May 16, 2025, 11:52 a.m.

Two bodies found 14 years apart near Long Island’s Gilgo Beach have finally been identified—and even more shockingly, they’re connected. A dismembered adult body found in Hempstead Lake State Park, which had commonly been referred to as “Peaches” due to a tattoo of the fruit being one of the only defining characteristics to remain, has been identified through DNA analysis as 26-year-old Tanya Jackson. It raises the question: Could the cutting-edge DNA analysis currently being deployed in the Gilgo Beach case have secured—or even overturned—the verdicts in some of the most infamous trials of the past century? According to a report in Long Island’s Newsday, some believe it still could. Could DNA Analysis Solve the Crime of the Century?

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