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Welcome heathens welcome to the world of the weird and unexplained. I’m your host, Nicole Delacroix and together, we will be investigating stories about the weird, wonderful, unexplained, eerie, scary and down-right unbelievable. There will be tales of ghosts, murder, supernatural beings and unexplained mysteries. So, sit back, grab your favorite drink, relax and prepare to be transported to today's dark Enigma....

And on today’s Dark enigma I was feeling a little down and truthfully angry with all the stupid going on in the world I felt a little mystery was appropriate. So, with that said, we will still be playing our drinking game and as you know, the drinking game is only for those of us that are at home and have nowhere else to go tonight. The choice of libation is yours, so choose your poison accordingly… Alright, now for the game part how about every time I say bike that will be a single shot and every time I say New Mexico, that will be a double shot. Now that the business end is out of the way we can jump headfirst into today’s dark enigma… and the bizarre unsolved case of the disappearance… abduction… of Tara Calico.

On the morning of September 20, 1988, 19-year-old Tara Calico left her home in Belen, New Mexico to embark on a 36-mile bike ride along New Mexico State Road 47. The events of that morning weren’t unusual; according to Tara’s mother, Patty Doel, her daughter biked this route almost daily. Before leaving around 9:30 AM, Tara asked her mom to come get her if she wasn’t home by noon because she had plans with her boyfriend. Patty agreed and unknowingly said goodbye to her daughter for the last time. When she didn’t return by 12:00 PM, Patty set out to find her. After driving back and forth twice, there was no sign of Tara along her normal route.

As panic set in, Patty called the Valencia County Sheriff’s Department to report her daughter missing. For weeks, investigators searched the area. Local and state police, as well as hundreds of volunteers, combed the area on foot, horseback, four-wheelers, and planes. The only evidence they found were pieces of Tara’s broken Sony Walkman and bike tracks. Her stepfather, John Doel, recalls that the track marks looked more like skids, perhaps a sign of a struggle.