I just find the link tenuous. A cowlick and a "similar" pillow print for the Montecito photo, and no correlation given at all for the Amtrak photo. Just in this thread alone people have been able to find missing women with similarities as strong, or stronger, to the original photo. Doe Network...
I'm leaning towards the hoax side. Several things always bother me about this image and the related story.
1. The book. This seems like such a tenuous link to Tara Calico. She didn't have it on her at the time she disappeared, so do we assume a kidnapper asked her what she'd like to read and...