Missing in New Mexico: Tara Calico

Join the team as they discuss the disappearance of Tara Calico.   Tara was 19 years-old when she went on a bike ride in Belen, New Mexico and never returned.   Is Tara the girl in the photo found over 1,500 miles away?

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If you have any information regarding this case, call the Valencia County Sheriff’s Department at (505) 866-3343 or the FBI, Albuquerque, New Mexico Office 505-224-2000.

Sources for this episode -
http://www.abqtrib.com/archives/news03/091903_news_tara.shtml - The Albuquerque Tribune, Joline Gutierrez Krueger, October 3, 2003

https://www.abqjournal.com/265671/abqnewsseeker/tara-calico-has-been-missing-for-25-years.html - Albuquerque Journal, Clara Garcia, September 19, 2013 

https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/kidnap/tara-leigh-calico

https://www.doenetwork.org/cases/96umfl.html

https://www.doenetwork.org/cases/66uffl.html

https://www.doenetwork.org/cases/257dfnm.html

https://www.koat.com/amp/ariticle/tara-calico-cold-case-investigation-new-mexico/37641318 - Nancy Laflin, September 20, 2021

Tara Leigh Calico – The Charley Project

Albuquerque Journal, September 14, 2008, What Happened to Woman Missing 20 Years?  Sheriff Says He Know by Leslie Linthicum

Valencia County News-Bulletin, Twenty years ago today, Tara Calico disappeared into thin air, Clara Garcia, September 20, 2008

“The Polariod”, Crime Magazine, by Paul Buchanan, July 22, 2013.