The Mystery of Tara Calico’s Disappearance | With Guest Robert Cannon

On September 20, 1988, 19‑year‑old college student Tara Calico left her Belen, New Mexico home for a morning bike ride and never came back. This episode examines the haunting 1989 Polaroid that made this case a national obsession, witness accounts of an old pickup truck, and the recent breakthroughs in 2023. Tara Calico's case is a bizarre, true-crime mystery.

With special guest, filmmaker, Robert Cannon.

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LINKS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sbct63zPK0c

https://www.scribd.com/doc/270970248/New-Mexico-State-Police-Tara-Calico

https://charleyproject.org/case/tara-leigh-calico#:~:text=day%2C%20Doel%20found%20a%20Boston,riding%20away%20from%20her%20residence

https://people.com/crime/tara-calico-polaroid-photo-true-story/#:~:text=Calico%27s%20mom%2C%20Patty%20Doel%2C%20believed,Alive%20was%20a%20Horrifying%20Polaroid

https://www.taracalico.com/new-blog/2023/7/3/press-conference-on-update-on-tara-calicos-case

https://www.taracalico.com/press

https://www.patreon.com/VANISHEDPod

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