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Case File 257DFNM





Right: Age-progression to 34 years (circa 2003) by Wesley Neville
Tara Leigh Calico
Missing since September 20, 1988 from Belen, Valencia County, New Mexico.
Classification: Endangered Missing
Vital Statistics
Date Of Birth: February 28, 1969
Age at Time of Disappearance: 19 years old
Height and Weight at Time of Disappearance: 5'7; 120 pounds
Distinguishing Characteristics: White female. Brown hair; green or hazel eyes. Lazy eye.
Marks, Scars: Calico has a large scar on the back of her right shoulder, and a cowlick on her right temple. She also has a dime-sized brown-colored birthmark on the back of her leg.
Dentals: Available. Sealants on most posterior teeth. Post orthodontic status.
DNA: Available
Circumstances of Disappearance
Calico left her house on Brugg Street in Belen, New Mexico to go on a bike ride at 09:30 on the morning of September 20, 1988. She took her mother's bike because her own was damaged. She was last seen riding her mother's neon pink Huffy mountain bicycle with yellow control cables and sidewalls on Highway 47 in Valencia County, at approximately 11:45 a.m. Calico biked the route daily during her routine 36-mile ride.
Around 11:45, witnesses observed a 1953 Ford pickup truck, dirty white or light gray -in color, with a white homemade shell, following Tara, who was wearing headphones, down the unpopulated stretch of highway where she was riding, but no one saw the abduction. The bike, a pink Huffy, has never been found. She was 2 miles from home at the time of the sighting. The small, cracked plastic window of the Sony Walkman was recovered 19 miles east of N.M. 47 near the remote John F. Kennedy campground.
Calico's mother believes that her daughter deliberately discarded the items as a way to mark her trail. Detectives also identified bike tracks on the north side of the shoulder of N.M. 47, near the place the cassette tape was found, where a scuffle might have taken place.
Investigators
If you have any information concerning Calico's whereabouts, please contact:
Valencia County Sheriff's Department
505-865-9604
Email
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Belen Police Department
505-864-4403
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The New Mexico Department of Public Safety
505-827-9297
Email
All information may be submitted on an anonymous basis.
NCIC Number: M-461117833
Please refer to this number when contacting any agency with information regarding this case.
Source Information:
NCMA
AMW
Albuquerque Tribune
NamUs
edited by staff to add media link
www.crimewatchers.net
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Case File 257DFNM





Right: Age-progression to 34 years (circa 2003) by Wesley Neville
Tara Leigh Calico
Missing since September 20, 1988 from Belen, Valencia County, New Mexico.
Classification: Endangered Missing
Vital Statistics
Date Of Birth: February 28, 1969
Age at Time of Disappearance: 19 years old
Height and Weight at Time of Disappearance: 5'7; 120 pounds
Distinguishing Characteristics: White female. Brown hair; green or hazel eyes. Lazy eye.
Marks, Scars: Calico has a large scar on the back of her right shoulder, and a cowlick on her right temple. She also has a dime-sized brown-colored birthmark on the back of her leg.
Dentals: Available. Sealants on most posterior teeth. Post orthodontic status.
DNA: Available
Circumstances of Disappearance
Calico left her house on Brugg Street in Belen, New Mexico to go on a bike ride at 09:30 on the morning of September 20, 1988. She took her mother's bike because her own was damaged. She was last seen riding her mother's neon pink Huffy mountain bicycle with yellow control cables and sidewalls on Highway 47 in Valencia County, at approximately 11:45 a.m. Calico biked the route daily during her routine 36-mile ride.
Around 11:45, witnesses observed a 1953 Ford pickup truck, dirty white or light gray -in color, with a white homemade shell, following Tara, who was wearing headphones, down the unpopulated stretch of highway where she was riding, but no one saw the abduction. The bike, a pink Huffy, has never been found. She was 2 miles from home at the time of the sighting. The small, cracked plastic window of the Sony Walkman was recovered 19 miles east of N.M. 47 near the remote John F. Kennedy campground.
Calico's mother believes that her daughter deliberately discarded the items as a way to mark her trail. Detectives also identified bike tracks on the north side of the shoulder of N.M. 47, near the place the cassette tape was found, where a scuffle might have taken place.
Investigators
If you have any information concerning Calico's whereabouts, please contact:
Valencia County Sheriff's Department
505-865-9604
--
Belen Police Department
505-864-4403
--
The New Mexico Department of Public Safety
505-827-9297
All information may be submitted on an anonymous basis.
NCIC Number: M-461117833
Please refer to this number when contacting any agency with information regarding this case.
Source Information:
NCMA
AMW
Albuquerque Tribune
NamUs
edited by staff to add media link

TARA CALICO: Missing from Belen, NM since 20 Sep 1988 - Age 19
Tara disappeared near her home in Belen, New Mexico, on September 20, 1988. She is widely believed to have been kidnapped.

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