Tara Calico was 19 and a University of New Mexico student when she vanished from a routine bike ride on September 20, 1988. She left home in Belen around 9:30 a.m. on her mother’s pink Huffy for a planned 36-mile loop on Highway 47 and failed to return by noon; her mother, Patty Doel, began searching that day. Items found along the route later — including part of Tara’s Walkman and a cassette tape — led investigators to suggest she might have deliberately dropped them to mark a trail.

Nearly a year later a Polaroid recovered in Port St. Joe, Florida showed a young woman and a boy bound and gagged in the back of a van; family members identified a scar and a favorite book in the picture and thought the woman could be Tara, but experts including the FBI could not conclusively verify the photo as her. A 2008 claim by a Valencia County sheriff alleged two teenage boys accidentally struck Tara with a vehicle and concealed her death, but no arrests have been made because her body or other physical evidence has not been found. The FBI is offering a reward for information.

Does anyone who knew Tara or who rode Highway 47 in 1988 remember seeing her that morning or noticing anything unusual along the route?