Tara left her home on Brugg Street in Belen to go on a ride at 9.30am and was last seen riding along Highway 47 in Valencia County about 11.45am. ![]() She was also wearing a gold butterfly ring with a diamond insert, a gold amethyst ring, and half-inch gold hoop earrings. Tara was last seen wearing a white T-shirt with ‘1st National Bank of Belen’ on it, white shorts with green stripes, white ankle socks, and white and turquoise Avia tennis shoes. “But it’s time for someone to come forward and help us finally bring Tara home.” “Law enforcement has never given up the search for this young lady, checking out numerous tips and conducting countless interviews over the course of more than 30 years. It has been 33 years since 19-year-old Tara Calico left her home in Belen for a bike ride along Highway 47 in Valencia County. “Tara had her entire future ahead of her when she vanished,” Special Agent in Charge James Langenberg of the Albuquerque FBI Division said this week. The FBI is offering a reward of up to $20,000 for information that leads to the whereabouts of Tara. Michele does her own detective work on the case, along with Tara’s high school friend Melinda Esquibel, who hosts the podcast Vanished: The Tara Calico Investigation. “And if a photographic evidence of a young woman alive - even though she’s in extremis - is something to latch on to.” “Mum really did not want to believe she was dead, period,” Tara’s older brother Chris told People. The ongoing investigation took a toll on Ms Doel, who kept getting shown dismembered bodies by police to see if they were her daughter. She and her husband kept a bedroom for Tara where they left Christmas and birthday gifts. In July 1989, a Polaroid photo of an unidentified young woman and. Ms Doel died in 2006 of complications from a series of strokes. Tara Leigh Calico disappeared near her home in Belen, New Mexico, on September 20, 1988. This is what the now 49-year-old could look like. Scotland Yard analysed the photo and concluded that the woman was Calico, but a second analysis by the Los Alamos National Laboratory disagreed. Tara’s mum noted the scar on the leg of the girl in the photo was identical to her daughter’s. The only lead police had was a windowless white van that was seen where the photo was found. The book in the photograph, My Sweet Audrina by VC Andrews, was Tara’s favourite, according to Ms Doel. ![]() When friends and family saw it they suggested it could be Tara, giving her mother Patty Doel renewed hope she was alive. The mysterious photo of two children bound with their mouths taped shut in the back of a van was discovered in a convenience store car park in Florida in August 1989 about a year after Tara’s disappearance and still has detectives stumped. The 19-year-old had borrowed her mum’s neon pink Huffy bicycle to go for a ride on September 20, 1988, but never returned to her New Mexico home. It’s hope they’re still clinging to 31 years later after Tara Calico mysteriously disappeared.
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