New details on Tara Calico case to be revealed Tuesday

UPDATE: Valencia County Sheriff Denise Vigil announced on Tuesday, June 13, that her office has sufficient evidence to submit the investigation into Tara Calico’s disappearance to the district attorney’s office for a review of potential charges. Read more here.

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News-Bulletin Reports

The Valencia County Sheriff’s Office has announced it will be making an announcement next week in regards to an infamous Valencia County missing person’s case.

A press conference will be held on the morning of Tuesday, June 13, where Sheriff Denise Vigil, along with representatives of the Federal Bureau of Investigations, will be providing new information abut the 1988 disappearance of Tara Calico.

“Substantial progress has been made in this investigation and it is time for the public to be made aware of this new information and its impact on the community,” is what was stated in a press release from VCSO on Tuesday, June 6.

Calico, who was 19 when she disappeared on Sept. 20, 1988, had gone for a bicycle ride.

She was last seen riding a neon pink Huffy mountain bike with yellow control cables and sidewalls.

Calico left her home on Brugg Street in Rio Communities to go on a bike ride at 9:30 a.m., that September day.

She rode her mother’s bicycle as her own was damaged.

She was last seen riding along N.M. 47 in Valencia County at about 11:45 a.m. Calico biked this route daily during her routine 36-mile ride.

She was wearing a white T-shirt with “1st National Bank of Belen” on it (size medium), white shorts with green stripes, white ankle socks, and white and turquoise Avia tennis shoes. Calico was also wearing a gold butterfly ring with a diamond insert, a gold amethyst ring and half-inch gold hoop earrings.

In 1998, a judge deemed Calico “deceased,” ruling her death a homicide, according to reporting by Albuquerque television station KOAT, and a sealed search warrant “relevant to the case” was executed at a home in Valencia County in the fall of 2021.