Disappearance of Tara Calico

Rare card · No. 56114

Tara Leigh Calico (born February 28, 1969) is an American missing person who disappeared near her home in Belen, New Mexico, on September 20, 1988 at the age of 19. She is widely believed to have been kidnapped. No definitive evidence of her fate or whereabouts has ever been found. In July 1989, a Polaroid photo of an unidentified young woman and boy, who were gagged and seemingly bound, was televised to the public after it was found in a convenience store parking lot in Port St. Joe, Florida. Family and friends thought the woman in the photo resembled Calico. Analysis of the photo by law enforcement investigators produced contradictory results. Scotland Yard analyzed the photo and concluded the woman was Calico, but a second analysis by the Los Alamos National Laboratory disagreed. An FBI analysis of the photo was inconclusive. Calico's case received extensive coverage on television programs such as A Current Affair, Unsolved Mysteries, and America's Most Wanted. It was also profiled on...

Read on Wikipedia