FBI zeroes in on cold-case murder mystery on NY Oneida reservationBy Dana Kennedy
July 22, 2023
ONEIDA, NY – Early this month, Debbie Mahoney woke from a nightmare.
Her long-lost little sister Tammy, last seen on a tiny Native American reservation in Oneida, NY, in 1981 and believed to have been gang-raped and murdered, came to her in a disturbing dream.
“It’s like she won’t rest until this case is solved,” Mahoney said.
It’s been 42 years since 19-year-old Tammy, a SUNY Morrisville student from Farmingdale, Long Island, was picked up while hitchhiking to a friend’s house.
Cops say she was taken to the nearby 32-acre Oneida Nation Territory in what people up here, including the Natives, still call “Indian country.”
Now, her disappearance and presumed murder is one of the hottest cold cases in the country.
The FBI held a news conference in May saying the case was still active and that several new witnesses have come forward.
Recently, the State Police’s Major Crimes and Cold Case units joined the investigation.
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Source:
https://nypost.com/2023/07/22/fbi-zeroes-in-on-cold-case-murder-mystery-at-oneida-reservation/
