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Tara Leigh Calico was reported missing in September 1988 after she failed to return home from her daily bike ride

In July 1989, a Polaroid image of a woman who looked like the missing teen surfaced in Florida, but conflicting reports cast doubt on whether it was Calico

Investigators announced in 2023 that they had made "substantial progress" in the case and were working to "arrest the offenders"

It's been over 30 years since Tara Leigh Calico went missing while on a bike ride in her hometown of Belen, N.M., but police have yet to make an arrest in her case.

"I believe that Tara’s case has been a huge misjustice within the Valencia County Sheriff’s Office," Calico's childhood friend, Melinda Esquibel, told The Sun in June 2023. "[I] hope that now the right people are

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