The Polaroid was analyzed by both the FBI and Scotland Yard, with the former concluding that it wasn’t Tara, and the latter concluding that it was. The boy had vanished in April of that year when hunting with his father around 75 miles from the location of Tara’s disappearance. Simultaneously, the case of missing 9 year-old, Michael Henley, was also tied to the photograph. The Sheriff’s apartment agreed that the girl in the image shared a likeness with Tara, although they couldn’t be sure. Having both gone cold, the two cases were not connected until July 28, when Tara’s father Joel received a call from a friend who had seen the Polaroid image on a Current Affair television show.
Road blocks were set up around the area, but the vehicle was never found. Local police immediately began searching both for the van and the possible captives suspected to be within it. To her alarm, the woman realized that it depicted a young woman and a little boy, bound and gagged in the back of a van, so she called the police. She’d noticed the small printed picture after a white Toyota van pulled away from the parking spot. Some fifteen hundred miles from where Tara Calico had gone missing, the woman found a polaroid photograph in the parking lot of a Junior Food Store. A Mysterious Polariod Is DiscoveredĪlmost a year later, in June of 1989, a shopper made an alarming discovery in Port St. They discovered broken pieces of the young woman’s Walkman and cassette tape on the roadside, but no other signs or leads were forthcoming. Missing person investigations quickly sprung into action, and police spoke to a witness that had seen a light-colored pickup truck driving alongside Tara. Unable to find a trace of Tara, Patty contacted the Valencia County Sheriff’s Office. Having expected her home by lunchtime, Tara’s mother Patty Doel began to worry, and decided to set out in search of her daughter.
Tara Calico had made plans to play tennis with her boyfriend that afternoon. When Tara left home that morning, nobody could have imagined that she would soon be classed a missing person. She was last seen at 11:45 am, making her way along Highway 47 in Valencia County. Keen cyclist Tara had borrowed her mother’s neon pink Huffy mountain bike because her own was damaged. Be that as it may, Patty, her mother, accepts the main photograph is Tara and the second one perhaps a muffle.At 9:00 am on September 20, 1988, a hazel-eyed 19 year-old named Tara Leigh Calico set off on a bike ride from her home in the sleepy New Mexico town of Belen. Tara’s sister says they can’t preclude any of the three photographs and that there was a statement striking phenomenal likeness. Police and the Doels have proposed it might be a scam. Examiners have brought up issues about its authenticity. The subsequent one, which surfaced in 1990, shows a young lady who, indeed, could be Tara, bound with cloth, sitting on an Amtrak train with an unidentified man. The former was found close to a building site in Montecito, California, a blurry photograph that shows a young lady with tape covering her mouth in a light blue striped texture on the cushion in the primary Toyota van photograph. However, two different photographs have surfaced that they think could be Tara. Sometime later Tara’s family has been approached to dissect numerous photographs throughout the long periods of which practically all have been excused. The young boy in the photo was believed by his family to be the missing Michael Henley but it is thought highly unlikely now as Henley’s remains were later found seven miles away from the campsite he wandered away from and it’s believed he died of exposure. Scotland Yard concluded it was terror in the photo but the Los Alamos National Laboratory disagreed.
One of Tara’s favorite books, VC Andrews’ My Sweet Audrina, was next to the young woman in the picture. What made Tara’s mother believe that this girl was her daughter was the scar on the woman’s leg that was identical to one Tara had received in a car accident. The photo was broadcast on a July 1989 episode of a Current Affair and friends began contacting Patti Doel that the young woman in the photo resembled Tara. Police set up roadblocks but could not find the vehicle.Īn analysis of the photo showed the particular film used was not available until May of 1989, helping investigators narrow down the time frame it could have been taken. When he left a Polaroid photo of a young boy and young woman tied up and duct-taped were on the ground in the same parking spot where the truck had been. Joe Florida, a woman pulled into a convenience store parking lot and noticed a man with a mustache in his 30s sitting in a white windowless Toyota cargo van.
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