The Sassy Gazette

🩸 THE TARA CALICO FILES: A CASE THAT NEVER LET GO A Dicking Around With Richie investigation • Because the truth doesn’t scare us. The Introductory There are cases you research, cases you study, and then there are cases that take your hand, drag you into the dark, and whisper, “Don’t stop until you finish the story.” The disappearance of Tara Leigh Calico is one of those. A bright, disciplined 19-year-old rides her mother’s neon pink Huffy bicycle down a New Mexico highway. She gives her mom one sentence a sentence that haunts this investigation even now: “Come get me if I’m not back by noon.” At 11:45 a.m., witnesses saw her pedaling northbound. By 12:05 p.m., she was gone. No skid marks. No bike. No Tara. Just the kind of silence that makes your spine lock up. What followed was a 35-year labyrinth of witness sightings, small-town fear, a sheriff’s son whispered about for decades, a Polaroid found 1,500 miles away, and a community where trut...