On September 20, 1988 at the age of 19, Tara Leigh Calico, a promising University of New Mexico student left her house on Brugg Street in Belen, New Mexico to go on a bike ride at 9:30 a.m. She was last seen riding her mother's neon pink Huffy mountain bicycle with yellow control cables and sidewalls on Highway 47 in Valencia County, at approximately 11:45 a.m. This location is approximately two miles from her home.disappeared about 150 yards from the Rio Communities golf course near her home in Belen. Nine months later on June 15, 1989, a Polaroid of an unidentified young woman and a boy, bound and gagged in the back of a van was found in a parking lot at a convenience store in Port St. Joe, Florida. The girl in the photo looks like Tara Calico hence throwing her case into the national spotlight. There has been much speculation on whether the young lady in the photo is Tara, in which her mother, Patty Doel, believed it was. Ten years after the photo was found the case on Tara had seem to have gone cold. Then on September 20, 2008, the 20th anniversary of Tara's disappearance, the Valencia County News Bulletin published an article stating that Rene Rivera, the Sheriff of Valencia County, knew what happened to Tara. Rivera states, he knows the names of the boys now men that that committed the crime and the parents that helped covered it up. To date Tara's case remains unsolved and no arrests have been made.