![]() So, what did the FBI say about the picture? Who confessed in 2013 on their deathbed, and how could it implicate the sheriff overseeing the original case? What did the psychic stripper say? Listen, laugh, learn. on September 20, 1988, 19-year-old Tara Calico left for her daily bike ride along Highway 47 in Valencia County, New Mexico. Months later, a polaroid was found in Florida that showed what could have been Tara bound and gagged in the back of a van. Witnesses said a truck was stalking her, and signs of a scuffle and broken Walkman were found. Chillingly, she told her mom that if she wasn’t back home by noon, she should come looking for her. On September 20, 1988, she went on her daily bike ride and never came home. This true crime tale is over thirty years old, and it has some strange twists and turns. On this episode of the world famous Sofa King Podcast, we talk about the infamous disappearance of Tara Calico. The photos were given to the FBI for further investigation in hope of finding fingerprints or possible DNA evidence.Subscribe: Google Podcasts | Stitcher | TuneIn | RSS The caller said she had dreams suggesting the runaway may have been Calico and that she may be buried in California (searches led to nothing). Tara nor her mother’s bicycle has never been found, but there has been information that has come out about her disappearance in the years since. The letters were sent the same time a self-proclaimed psychic woman called about her, saying she have met a runaway in California with whom she worked in a strip club this girl was eventually murdered. Joe, a beach town approximately one hour south of Panama City, Florida. In July 1989, a color Polaroid of an unidentified young woman and a little boy was found by a woman in a convenience store parking lot in Port St. None of the letters contained a return address or a note indicating the child's identity, making the officials there believe it may have something to do with the disappearance of Tara Calico. Tara Calico’s disappearance has baffled investigators for decades. The Mysterious Disappearance of Tara Calico Tara went for a bike ride in 1988 and disappeared without a trace Tara Calico (image courtesy of the FBI) The Beginning Tara Leigh Calico was born on. ![]() 10 and depicting the same image, of a boy with black marker drawn over his mouth. Joe received a third letter, also postmarked in Albuquerque on Aug. The second letter contained an original image of the boy. Someone had drawn a black band in ink on the photo, over the boy's mouth, as if it were covered in tape as in the 1989 picture. Fifteen hundred miles from where Tara Calico disappeared a woman was shopping in Port St. One letter contained a photo, printed on copy paper, of a young boy with sandy brown hair. He received two letters, postmarked June 10 and Aug. When Tara Calico mysteriously vanished in 1988, suspected to be the victim of foul play, her case may have gotten lost with the countless other missing. Joe parking lot was found and shared by the media, pictures of a boy not confirmed to be the one in the photo were sent to the Port St. ![]() 47 from Rio Communities, expecting to find her daughter with a flat tire. 20, 1988, when Taras mother drove south on N.M. Twenty years after the Polaroid photo from the Port St. The mystery of Tara Calicos disappearance began to unfurl a little after noon on Sept. Tara’s case received national attention in the 1990s when a series of Polaroid photographs surfaced that appeared to show her bound and gagged in the back of a van. The woman who found that photo said that it was found in the parking space of where a white windowless Toyota cargo van driven by a man with a mustache believed to be in his 30s was parking when she arrived at the store however, the man was never caught nor brought to interrogation. On September 20, 1988, 19-year-old Tara Leigh Calico disappeared while riding her bike near her home in Belen, New Mexico. Police believe that Henley wandered off and died of exposure. Despite much conjecture, the identification of the boy in the photograph as Henley seems unlikely because his remains were discovered in 1990 in the Zuni Mountains, about 7 miles from his family's campsite where he had disappeared, and 75 miles from where Calico disappeared. She was last seen riding a neon pink Huffy mountain bike with yellow control cables and sidewalls along Highway 47 in Valencia County at approximately 11:45 a.m. According to investigators, the picture had to have been taken after May 1989 because the particular film used in the photograph was not available until then. According to open source information, Tara Leigh Calico left her home on Brugg Street in Belen, New Mexico, on in the morning hours for a bike ride. It was theorized that the woman in the photo was Calico and that the boy was Michael Henley, also of New Mexico, who had disappeared in April 1988. ![]() On June 15, 1989, a Polaroid photo of an unidentified young woman and a boy, both gagged and seemingly bound, was found in the parking lot of a convenience store in Port St.
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