The Polaroid in the Parking Lot

The Polaroid in the Parking Lot

In April 1988, 9-year-old Michael Henley vanished while on a camping trip with his father in the Zuni Mountains of New Mexico. In September of the same year, 19-year-old Tara Calico disappeared from her hometown of Belen, New Mexico while out on her bike. On June 1989, a woman goes into a convenience store and notices a white van in the parking lot. When she exits, she sees a Polaroid photo, face down on the ground where the van had been. It showed a teenage girl and a young boy, bound and gagged. They were initially identified to be Michael Henley and Tara Calico. Henley's remains were eventually found. Tara Calico's case however remains unsolved to this day. Forensics later determined that the boy in the photo wasn't him after all and that Henley died of hypothermia after getting lost in the woods. The boy in the photo with Tara remains unidentified.

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