![]() Then why, 20 years later, are we marking another milestone anniversary of a missing person's case? Two others have been identified as accomplices. Rivera says he has had enough information to get arrest warrants for the two boys - now men - whom he has identified as the killers. For all of those years, the walls of Valencia County have been talking, naming names of the boys who were in the truck, names of the boys who helped bury Tara's body after they killed her, names of the parents and other relatives who helped clean up and cover up the mess. Rivera has been working on the case since he started as a deputy in 1989, since he was promoted to detective in 1996 and since he was elected sheriff in 2006. The truck they were driving accidentally hit Tara, Rivera says, and bad turned worse. And while she was riding the bike, they went up to try to talk to her, try to grab her, whatever, while she was on the bike." She was very athletic and a lot of guys wanted to talk to her, they wanted to meet her, they wanted to go out with her. Her attackers were boys she had gone to high school with, although they were behind her in school and younger, Rivera says. Tara was 19 and starting her second year in college. ![]() And I believe that the parents (of the attackers) were some of the people that helped the individuals with hiding the truth or hiding the body or trying to escape prosecution." "They knew who she was, and they're all local individuals. "The individuals who did the harm to Tara, knew who she was," Rivera told me. Twenty years into the Tara Calico mystery, Rivera would like to let everyone in on what happened to 19-year-old Tara out on N.M. He says he knows what happened, and has for years. And a police case that has now stretched out to fill two banker's boxes and 20 years.īut to Valencia County Sheriff Rene Rivera, the case isn't much of a whodunit. And a puzzle that fed the television crime shows. Tara never came home, and so began a family's chain of sorrow. Instead, all she found in the dirt on the side of the road was a tire track from the bike Tara was riding. 47 from Rio Communities, expecting to find her daughter with a flat tire. 20, 1988, when Tara's mother drove south on N.M. The mystery of Tara Calico's disappearance began to unfurl a little after noon on Sept. What Happened To Woman Missing 20 Years? Sheriff Says He Knows by Leslie LinthicumĪ girl rides a bike on a lonely stretch of road. The killer(s) have been allowed to continue with their normal lives. They have enough information for an arrest warrant but the New Mexico DA's office will not arrest anyone without finding Tara's body first. According to a press relase from their office in 2008, the Valencia County Sheriff's Department claimed they know who killed/hurt or abducted Tara Calico in 1988. Tara Calico mysteriously disappeared on Septemeber20,1988.
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