Long Island, New York

A retired Army veteran pleaded not guilty Thursday in the 1997 killing of an Alabama woman whose remains were found near the victims of Long Island’s infamous Gilgo Beach killings. Andrew Dykes, who had also served as a Tennessee state trooper and a corrections officer, was charged with second-degree murder in the killing of Tanya Denise Jackson, a fellow military veteran with whom he had a child outside of his marriage, according to prosecutors on Long Island.

For years, the 1997 killing of a young woman found in a Long Island, New York state park — her body dismembered, left unidentifiable beyond a tattoo of a peach — seemed destined to remain unsolved. The victim has been identified, and an arrest made,