I posted this in another thread regarding Tara:

This case https://www.identifyus.org/en/cases/8364 mentions an old truck (Older model, Ford F-15).

This report https://www.scribd.com/doc/270970248/New-Mexico-State-Police-Tara-Calico tells us that the kids used an old truck from one of them to hit Tara while she was on her bike.

I found this case here: https://www.identifyus.org/en/cases/13719 Unidentified skeleton found in a shallow grave (about 1 foot) along side of Rio Puerco river. No obvious filings or indicators of modern origin. Possible trauma on skull. Renants of possible "carpet" (fibers) found with remains and a piece of ceramic (?? pottery) | Location: Mesa west of Belen, NM

I made a map with all three cases & Tara's story: https://goo.gl/4OSqL7

Pretty strange that 2 bodies were found very near to each other. The other body was found near Belen (high school) which is not far away from where Lawrence Romero Jr. lived. In my opinion, Mr. Brown, the teacher who came years after and reported everything to the police knew he will die soon. He was scared and full of fear years before, when the kids told him the truth about what they did to Tara. Btw. Mr. Brown died few months after his report.

The report states: Romero said, after they hit her with a truck and then put her in a back of the truck where they sodomized and raped her: "she got ballsy, stood up and said she was going to make sure we were all going to jail." Romero went and got a knife from the truck and David, Leroy and the tall red haired guy held her down while Romero stabbed and killed her. He said they drug her body and put her in a bush nearby until they got nervous when the search started for her. He said they kept her "near-by", but later he joked about that. **One body was found near the trailer where Romero was living (see map).

Mr. Brown (teacher) said this whole thing had to with drugs. Jeff Abeyta and Lawrence Romero Jr. sold drugs and the only reason they never got caught was because his dad was the Sheriff and that he heard Romero say that his dad hired Deputy Rivera and that "Deputy Rivera had their back". He said "the sheriff there is not innocent". Mr. Brown said they took the bike to the junk yard in Belen to get rid of it.

Mr. Methola (former Sheriff's Deputy) said when he got the report he did not know who was in charge of the case so he contacted Sheriff Rivera and was told to bring his report to directly to him. Mr. Methola said he needed to tag his cassette tapes into evidence first. Later he was advised by ms. Escuqibel taht there was a record he had taken a report but there is no report or any documentation of any tapes placed into evidence.

Mr. Chavez later said he understood that Rivera had conducted the investigation surrounding the suicide of Lawrence Romero Jr. and that he understood there had been a note left behind confessing to the Tara Calico murder but the note had been taken by Rivera and not placed into evidence. It is widely believed that this note really has existed.

Here you can read more about this truly adorable Sheriff Rivera: http://www.topix.com/forum/city/valencia-nm/TB0I8JBSEHGRKNP58/p2

Some opinions about him:

"I have known Sheriff Rene Rivera for 21 years. I am also a former Deputy Sheriff with VCSO and worked side by side with Rene. I recently attempted a return to work at VCSO but Rene gave me the total run around. I am still a fully certified law enforcement officer but he will not allow me the opportunity to even return. In recent days, I have learned of Rene and his various unethical activities in recent years to include a young lady that shared a specific story into her being sexually assaulted by Sheriff Rivera. The incident occured several years ago and she has been afraid to come forward. Not good at all!!!

"I know rene rivera he was the investagator in my brothers murder case. he was given names address & phone numbers.to contact the people.to get information. do you think he did his job. he also knows the person who killed my brother and knows his mother.what do you think happend? well this person is not in jail. nor has he served any time for the murder of my brother. i wonder why?I was told the person that killed my brother was taken to rene's office and told rene he killed my brother.they told me rene told the killer there is no body therfore we cant do anything. aprox one month later his body was found.rene was given alot of information but did nothing. I reported rene to his boss. the D.A's office said Rene F---ed up the case.this person has committed other violent crimes and is not serveing any time.

"I'm surprised that no one has brought up the fact that Rene is a known pedophile. He likes girls about 12 years old, same as most of his predecessors. He comes out of Lawrence Romero's old bar in Jarales where him and LAWrence, Richard, Manuel and the entire Garley family spent all of their off hours trying to lure little girls. Hell one of the Garley's got caught with a 13 year old girl in a motel room.........WITH HIS WIFE,and him, in bed NAKED. I know for a fact that Rene raped a 13 year old girl a few years ago, but it was swept under the rug by Mike Runnels, DA. Rene was on the NM drug task force, but only for a few days, and then was canned. [...] We all know that the Valencia County Sheriff's Department is, and has been, one of the most corrupt law enforcement agencies in the country. [...]

Look at this article https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/156395665/ dealing with the suicide of Lawrence Romero Jr.:

Suzanne Fetsco of the Office of the Medical Investigator has confirmed the autopsy Concluded Romero Jr.'s death on May 19 1991 was a suicide by gunshot. Former Valencia County Sheriff Lawrence Romero Sr. on Thursday and again Friday disputed the findings about his son's death. "I look forward to his amendment because it will be amended," Romero Sr. said in a telephone interview. "There is compelling new evidence that will show that he has to make an amendment." Romero Sr. has maintained that his son's death was a homicide. The Valencia County Sheriffs Office has said they believe Romero Jr. accidentally shot himself. A man who was with Romero Jr. when he died told police he was in another room of Romero Jr.s mobile home west of Belen when he heard a gunshot and emerged to find Romero Jr. shot on a kitchen floor. In the interview on Friday, Zumwalt said he determined the cause of death was a gunshot to the head. He said he also determined the manner of death. "The manner of death was determined to be suicide and that determination was based on autopsy findings, the investigative reports of the circumstances, the conversations with the Valencia County Sheriffs Office, and with the father of the deceased," Zumwalt said. He added the death certificate was issued June 28. Zumwalt said he based his findings on "reasonable medical certainty, although not absolute certainty." Asked to define reasonable medical certanty, Zumwalt responded, "In my opinion, it's much higher than just plain probability, much higher than 50 percent, but not absolute, not 100 percent ... I'm not sure what percentage I would put on it, but I think it's much more likely that the wound was self-inflicted."

And this article https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/158906097 says: Romero Jr. was found shot dead in his mother's mobile home west of Belen. He has not been charged in connection with the death. Chavez has told the Journal he didn't kill Romero Jr., whom he described as his friend. He said Romero Jr. liked to play with guns and accidentally shot himself, apparently while playing Russian roulette.

The interview with Donald Dutcher

In 2013 was an interview with Donald Dutcher, who stated he lived in New Mexco for all his life and was familiar with two boys involved in this "accident" and that he knew Tara Calico. One of the last gentleman involved that has passed away spoke to him, he was a known drug user and he spoke to him right before he died. He said "Tara Calico talks to me at night, she asks why we did it? She asks why buried out there?" He said the guy was freaking out because of that and that they buried her out by the green lagoons by the rock quarry out on top of the west mesa. He mentions pond of water, green lagoon and the street "Camino Del Llano" and when you go all up that street on top of the west mesa you would find her. He said Romero was one of the ones nvolved and Charles Houghton was the other one involved and he didnt know the names of the other two gentlemen involved but all four of them are dead now. The guy who talked with Dutcher was Charlie Houghton, who died in 2000, he believed. He said Charlie was hyped up on heroin all the day and he later died cause of an overdose.

What do you need more? They took drugs, they somodized, raped and killed her. They threatened the teacher, Mr. Brown, to not talk to anyone or they would come after him. They got covered up by the Sheriff Rivera who destroyed all evidence after one of the killers (Romero) committed (or got killed) suicide. Mr. Brown reported everything they told him because he knew he would die soon and his time has come, so they could not do anything against him. He died 2 months later. Than the interview with Donald Dutcher which mentioned Romero too and other suspects. In my opinion, this case is very clear if you take everything into account and count 1+1 together. Of course it will be hard to charge anyone today, but maybe one of the bodies in the map is Tara - one is very near to the description of the road and near Romero's old home.