Identified! OK - OSBI Needs Help to ID Woman In Photo *Resolved*

[cenasangel]

I'm sorry guys but i think thats Tara Calico and i think she is dead. I think the killer killed her many years ago and was just leaving a paper trail for hisa own sick pleasure. Still does not explain what happened to the little boy abducted with her though.

 

[trixie]

Thanks for the info okietexan. Can we access that article from the local newspaper online? They may have given some info we were wondering about here.

 

[okietexan]

Hi Trixie,

I know that the link to the paper is purcellregister.com, however, I don't have an exact link to the article! I am sorry! My mom just told me she saw it there last week. This paper is only published weekly, I believe it comes in the mail on Fridays. I hope that helps....

 

[cdt0283]

I've looked on their online site and cannot find any article. It may have only been in print.

Thanks for the info okietexan. Can we access that article from the local newspaper online? They may have given some info we were wondering about here.

 

[Kymistry35]

http://www.missingkids.com/missingk...NCMC&seqNum=1&caseLang=en_US&searchLang=en_US

I think the nose and slight cleft chin are a lot alike, but the jawline and ears are off, but that's just my opinion.

 

[okietexan]

I've looked on their online site and cannot find any article. It may have only been in print.

It is a small newspaper and only distributed once a week. I will ask my mom if she still has the last issue.

 

[trixie]

I've looked on their online site and cannot find any article. It may have only been in print.

Yep I found it too but no article. Well at least it's good to hear this is getting some publicity. That poor girl.......

 

[trixie]

It is a small newspaper and only distributed once a week. I will ask my mom if she still has the last issue.

That would be excellent! Thanks!

 

[laini]

Aren't ears a big identifier? This photo has a pretty good shot of her ear. Looks very similar to Tara's ear.

One thing I noticed is the photo found on the ground years ago that was thought to be Tara and a boy in a van - her eyebrows are not plucked like this Jane Doe's. Of course they may not be the same person, or they could have been plucked at some point. I really feel it is Tara.

If so, her killer is out there. He is getting kicks dropping photos around - maybe even reads here on websleuths. If this is the case, I hope he drops a photo again and gets caught.

 

[Kellee]

I wonder if they are planning on dating the photograph paper. I was just reading up on Tara Calico and one article mentioned that LE had the photo analyzed and the film used to produce the photograph was manufactured within a certain time frame. It would be informative if that were done in this case.

 

[Niteowl]

sorry, just another thing thats been bugging me....

Her eyebrows - they look very clean/ neat for having been plucked, and im just wondering if they've been threaded ( a form of hair removal used by asian (pakistani/ indian) women)

I know alot of light skinned asian women and her features (nose/ chin) bear some similarities, just wondered if she could be asian/ indian.....??

Welcome jacobean, wow, two interesting ideas from you, the air/bunkbed mattress and the eyebrow speculation. Those eyebrows really intrigued me also. I had neighbors that moved here from Iran (after the Shah's rule ended). The wife and I were friends and she talked about the threading technique, and hated using the tweezers on her eyebrows. She did get someone in the Iranian community here to help her, the point I'm trying to make is that she had beautiful skin around the eye brow and lip area, not big pores that sometime come from tweezing. This woman also has very nice skin and was probably quite lovely.

 

[txsvicki]

On looking at the edge of the wooden frame at very top near the girls elbow, I can see the pink and green material going up as if it is sticking up. I don't know if a mattress would do that. About the eyebrows. In the 80's it wasn't stylish to have eyebrows that thin, not sure about the early 90's, but they were popular in the late 90's up to about 6-8 years ago, along with chunky auburn highlights in the hair. The colors in the comforter, the graduating tones of pink and green, the tufts in the cover, the chunky highlight look, and the thin eyebrows are still making me think about 8 years ago. I don't see any pierce areas in the ear though, so that's sort of odd for a younger woman.

 

[Niteowl]

Whether or not the perp was trying to imitate a particular painting or not or possibly create his own work of art I do not know but I did note that the comparison brought more clearly to mind some impressions I get from the victim pic.

1. An art painting is often posed for and I got that impression about this victim pic.
2. In an art picture the artists controls what you see and your perspective, angle of view to some degree and again I felt that this was what I see in the victim pic as well.

I see a few more things but these were my first main impressions.

I agree with your post, she has been posed for her last portrait. So if the photograph was a trophy to be kept only for himself, how did he want to remember her? I doubt that he took this picture for anyone but himself.
The (possible) entry wound turned away, blood on face not wiped off, the insect on her mouth, her peaceful appearance...what is this "artist" saying? I really want to hear your 'few more things', if you would please.

 

[Niteowl]

One more thing. The fabric that her robe is made of looks like velvet to me and I don't think that the large pattern is embroidered. It may be what is called burn out or over printed. check out this description, mostly last three lines.
"Burn-out - A brocade-like pattern effect created on the fabric through the application of a chemical, instead of color, during the burn-out printing process. (Sulfuric acid, mixed into a colorless print paste, is the most common chemical used.) Many simulated eyelet effects can be created using this method. In these instances, the chemical destroys the fiber and creates a hole in the fabric in a specific design, where the chemical comes in contact with the fabric. The fabric is then over-printed with a simulated embroidery stitch to create the eyelet effect. However, burn-out effects can also be created on velvets made of blended fibers, in which the ground fabric is of one fiber like a polyester, and the pile may be of a cellulosic fiber like rayon or acetate. In this case, when the chemical is printed in a certain pattern, it destroys the pile in those areas where the chemical comes in contact with the fabric, but leave the ground fabric unharmed.

Oops. Or printed, now that I've spent an hour looking at pictures of burned out velvet, the fabric on the bottom actually shows through, it has to be printed.

 

[txsvicki]

The design on the robe doesn't look embroidered to me either. I don't know for sure, but don't think it is from a cheaper discount store. It looks more expensive.

 

[trixie]

I think we need to slow down a bit here. I have been following the Tara Calico situation since the early 90's and I do not see a conection to this photo. However, authorites deffinitly should be made aware of the possibility. Sadly, I believe I just read and am not certain that Tara Calico's mother recently passed away. I do not see anything in this picture that looks like a tie. I do see an ear that looks unusally in that it appears to be very attached lobe and somewhat flush with the head. Prehaps this could be used as an identifing characteristic.

mjak

She did pass away.....

http://www.abqtrib.com/news/2006/Jun/08/joline-gutierrez-krueger-patty-doel-waited-for/

 

[Reannan]

Interesting if Tara Calico's mother recently passed away; that could be trigger for why someone left the picture behind.....if it is Tara.

 

[LionRun]

If the woman is truly a victim of some twisted slime and then took a picture to keep as a memento/souvenir, I think he most likely dropped the picture by accident. These slimes hold onto mementos for life, generally. And, contrary to what most believe, these types usually don't want to get caught unconsciously or consciously.

Lion

 

[kgeaux]

http://www.missingkids.com/missingk...NCMC&seqNum=1&caseLang=en_US&searchLang=en_US

THere is a resemblance.....but, maybe because I just was involved in the discussions on Anna Nicole's baby's daddy (whew) I've been noticing the earlobes. Our victim appears to have a very attached earlobe---although it is hard to see with her hair partially covering it---and most of the photos of possibilities have detached earlobes. The little moles on our victim

We need to make a list of all of our observations, the ones we agree on!, about her appearance: like the fact that she has dark hair, a couple of little freckles/moles, a possible tiny cleft to the chin, attached earlobes, etc. and then we can narrow down the search quite a bit.

 

[kgeaux]

I think that white thing is a thin nylon type cord. You can see it's got a braided look. So it appears this girl was beaten, strangled and shot. Talk about overkill! Had to be a significant other, IMO.
The photo may have fallen out of somebodys wallet. Most gas stations are pay at the pump types. I wish we knew what size this photo is.

Good catch, trixie. I was thinking it was one of those plastic ties, but when I went back and looked, it does looked braided.....so I agree, nylon type cord.

I wonder if they are planning on dating the photograph paper. I was just reading up on Tara Calico and one article mentioned that LE had the photo analyzed and the film used to produce the photograph was manufactured within a certain time frame. It would be informative if that were done in this case.

I hope and pray they do so! I'm sure they will, it seems standard operating procedure to me. Of course this is a small LE, so maybe that won't be at the top of their priorities. But it sure would help to narrow things down if we had an actual time frame to work with.

sorry, just another thing thats been bugging me....

Her eyebrows - they look very clean/ neat for having been plucked, and im just wondering if they've been threaded ( a form of hair removal used by asian (pakistani/ indian) women)

I know alot of light skinned asian women and her features (nose/ chin) bear some similarities, just wondered if she could be asian/ indian.....??

Jacobean, you just keep blowing me away. That eyebrow does look threaded, there isn't any of the "open pore" look of a plucked eyebrow. Having that in mind, I went back to look at her once again. Poor little angel. She does appear Middle Eastern to me. Maybe that is why we are having such a difficult time identifying the robe? If it is of Middle Eastern origin, we won't find anything like it here in USA.....I notice that the pattern is continued on the arm, and honestly, I've never seen an embroidered velour/velveteen robe with the pattern down the arm here, BUT I have seen some mighty beautiful and fancy robes that my sister brought back from Abu Daubi with embroidery on the arm....Hers aren't patterned like this particular one and the embroidery includes several different thread colors, but still to have it down the arm is unusual enough to where I thought I'd mention it......and I've even seen bright, bright, bright colors in a blanket she brought back. (It's fuzzy, not nylon, so not an exact match)) All of this together makes me wonder if we are looking for a young lady of Middle Eastern decent.