The Polaroid in the car park

On June the 15th 1998 a woman found a Polaroid in a car park which depicted what seemed to be two young kidnap victims.  She said she had parked next to a windowless white van and gone in to a shop.  When she came back out to her car the van was gone and the photo was on the floor.

It is believed that the girl in the photo is Tara Calico who went missing the year before on September 20th in New Mexico.  She went out in the morning for a bike ride only to vanish, her and the bike, and never be seen again.  No one saw her being taken but it is widely accepted that she was kidnapped.  There was a sighting of a truck following her as she was riding but this could be just a truck going the same way as her cycle route.  The boy in the photo has not been identified.  There was a claim it was Michael Henley who went missing in April 88.  However his body was found in 1990 in the Zuni mountains, 7 miles from his families camp site and 75 miles away from where Tara had gone missing.  It is believed he had gone off alone for some reason, maybe he became lost, and died of exposure. 

There has been recent efforts to find Tara and look in to the origins of the photo but so far they have turned up empty handed.

 

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Amy Lynn Bradley

Amy Lynn Bradley was a 23 year old American on a cruise ship named Rhapsody of the Seas in 1998 when she disappeared without a trace.  She has never been found.

She had been up dancing and drinking with the ships band on the night of the 23rd of March through to the morning of the 24th.  She parted from them and her father saw her asleep on the deck.  He later went back to check on her but she was gone.

The ship docked at Curacao, Antilles not long after it was found she was missing.  The ship and sea were searched but there was no trace of her.  It was thought that she may have fallen in to the sea and been lost but reports followed that indicated otherwise.

Two Canadian tourists said they saw her on the beach in Curacao in 98 and a member of the Navy claims he saw her in a brothel in 99, telling his she was Amy Bradley and asking him to help her.  In 2005 someone in Barbados claimed to have seen her in the toilets of a department store.

Photos were also sent to the family showing a woman posing sexually who looks very much like her.  This along with the brothel sighting has caused people to believe she may have been kidnapped and sold to sex slavery.  But no one actually knows for sure.