The remains of two victims believed to have been murdered by the Gilgo Beach serial killer have finally been identified after 27 years.

US army veteran Tanya Denise Jackson, 26, who was known as “Peaches” because of her distinctive tattoo, and her two-year-old daughter Tatiana Mary Dykes were named at a press conference by officials at Nassau County on Long Island, New York on Wednesday.

Parts of Ms Jackson’s dismembered body were found in a bin in Hempstead Lake State Park, Lakeview, on June 28 1997.

Then, 14 years later, her severed legs and arms were found, along with the skeletal remains of her two-year-old daughter.

For decades, their identities were unknown.

All the police had to go on was a scar, possibly from a caesarean section operation and the tattoo – a peach with a bite taken out of it and two drips from the fruit further down on her breast.