On September 20, 1988, Tara Calico, a 19-year-old college student from Belen, New Mexico, set out for a morning bike ride that would end in a mystery that still haunts investigators today. Tara never returned home, and the search for her led to eerie discoveries, strange clues, and a chilling photo that surfaced nearly a year later. Was she abducted? Did she meet with foul play? Or is there something more to this unsettling case?

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