We don't know if the Polaroid shows Tara Calico, though her parents became convinced it was she. The image horrified her, and she contacted the police. When she returned to her car, the van had already driven off, but she noticed a Polaroid photograph in its parking space. At the time, she gave it little attention. Joe, Florida, and she parked alongside a white Toyota cargo van. On June 15, 1989, a woman pulled into a convenience store in Port St.
Her family wouldn't forget her, but to the larger world, she might have become just another missing person, if the Polaroid hadn't appeared. The truck would be the object of speculation and searching for many years. They saw her riding ahead of a light gray Ford pickup truck, from the description a 1953 or 1954 model. Tara Calico, athletic, bright, green-eyed brunette, former cheerleader, became the year's feature missing person.Ī few witnesses came forward. Later, investigators would locate the remnants of her Walkman, 19 miles east of the highway in John F. They found part of the casing to the Boston cassette, the album she had been listening to on her Sony Walkman that day.
When Tara failed to return and Patty Doel didn't find her, she phoned the police. She asked her mother to pick her up along the route if she did not make it home by noon. Perhaps the delay that had caused raised her concern about making a scheduled afternoon tennis game with her boyfriend. She took her mother's pink Huffy mountain bike her own had developed a flat tire the day before. She left her home in Belen, Valencia County at 9:30, on her customary bicycle ride along New Mexico 47. Tara Calico, born February 19, 1969, a sophomore at the University of New Mexico, had a reputation for organization. The photographer and his subjects remains a mystery-but many people believe the girl is Tara Leigh Calico. The Polaroid, enigmatic and disturbing, evokes the worst folklore surrounding disappearing children. The specific Polaroid film used only became available in May of 1989. Andrews has sold a lot of books to teenage girls. Like most of her books, this popular bestseller tells a twisted gothic tale involving a dysfunctional family and an old house. The image looks to have been taken in the back of a white cargo van.Īlso visible are a plastic cup, a squirt gun, and a novel, My Sweet Audrina, written by V.C. Sheets have been spread below them, one with a distinct blue and white striped pattern. They're wearing gray shirts and, possibly, shorts. They have been bound, with hands behind them and gags taped over their mouths. He looks a more innocent age, perhaps nine years old. She lies closer to the camera, and this affords a better view than the one we have of the boy. The girl appears to be in her late teens.
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