Tara Leigh Calico, known to her faithful family and friends as fiercely independent and outgoing, was open minded, athletic, and passionate about her place within her own world. Her deep rooted connection with exploration and self discovery, as well as her inclination to engage with the arts and make a positive impact on her peers, was cut short by an unexplainable, unsolved disappearance in the late morning hours of September 20th, 1988, leaving all who knew her across Belen, New Mexico and the entire country at large grasping for answers in a sea of evidence that drowned us all in doubt…

As a hope to provide more substantial reasoning built upon observable evidence and situational analysis, this is an examination of the disappearance of Tara Calico, and the suspicious Polaroid discovered in Port Saint Joe, Florida that may or may not give a window into her undetermined fate...

This is the Cold Case Detective podcast...

Tara Calico Case File Photographs:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1zO0LJOt31_MhY3Nn3mhmpd_5pnI2g_m_?usp=sharing

Researched and written by TJ Ruesch
Episode narrated by William Earl
Music by CO.AG

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