OSBI Needs Help to Identify Woman Found In Photo

[SeriouslySearching]

Do you know who this woman is? Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation needs help to identify her. (Warning-she doesn't appear 'gravely injured' to me. She appears dead.)


Purcell - A photo found near the gas pump of a service station in McClain County has investigators worried the woman pictured may be gravely injured.

http://www.ktul.com/news/stories/0607/433606.html

[KT Can]

I wonder if they can tell how old this picture is??? The first thing I thought of were the photos thought to be of Tara Calico that surfaced at convenience stores or gas stations years ago.

[SeriouslySearching]

Here are the pics of Tara Calico. Hmmm...does resemble her..doesn't it?! Ah, you could very well be onto something. It does look like possibly the artist redid her mouth area which would fit the other pics of her having duct tape over her mouth. Surely, the OSBI is well aware of Tara's case. Strange. The photo in my opinion does look aged. There also appears to be a plastic tie perhaps around her head. See the white thing? Doesn't look like any kind of a hairtie to me...but more like a plastic cord or line. Her clothes look like 70s style, too.

http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/c/calico_tara.html

[Bobbisangel]

Is there any way that you can put the picture of this woman and the picture of the other woman...the pic where she is also wearing a blue top of the same color...on the same page side by side? They really do look alike.

I wonder if someone is still dropping pictures of Tara around every few years or so. The girl in the lone pic looks dead to me. The white thing that looks like a tie that is around her neck looks like it was a long tie and the long end is sticking up on the left side of the top of her hair. I wonder if she was strangled with that? I can't see it in front of her neck and that might be because it has dug so far into her neck. I hope LE can have this picture analysed to see when the paper was made and when they stopped making it like they did the pic's of Tara. I wonder if someone is trying to let Tara's parents know that she is no longer alive.

[SeriouslySearching]

Originally Posted by Bobbisangel

Is there any way that you can put the picture of this woman and the picture of the other woman...the pic where she is also wearing a blue top of the same color...on the same page side by side? They really do look alike.

I wonder if someone is still dropping pictures of Tara around every few years or so. The girl in the lone pic looks dead to me. The white thing that looks like a tie that is around her neck looks like it was a long tie and the long end is sticking up on the left side of the top of her hair. I wonder if she was strangled with that? I can't see it in front of her neck and that might be because it has dug so far into her neck. I hope LE can have this picture analysed to see when the paper was made and when they stopped making it like they did the pic's of Tara. I wonder if someone is trying to let Tara's parents know that she is no longer alive.

Those are really the only pics I have found of Tara so far besides one beside the boy they thought was her. A forensic artist would have been able to "remove" the tie around her neck for the purpose of showing this picture to the public by using photoshop. (I bet that is what they did for the mouth area, too.)

I would assume whoever left this at the gas station was trying to make a statement to someone. It gives me chills. I read Tara's father passed away years ago and her mother moved away to Florida...I think. In a NM paper, it said that LE had shown her gruesome pics over the years thinking they were Tara. Bless her heart. This will just open those old wounds for her, but she needs to know.

[southcitymom]

Originally Posted by SeriouslySearching

Here are the pics of Tara Calico. Hmmm...does resemble her..doesn't it?! Ah, you could very well be onto something. It does look like possibly the artist redid her mouth area which would fit the other pics of her having duct tape over her mouth. Surely, the OSBI is well aware of Tara's case. Strange. The photo in my opinion does look aged. There also appears to be a plastic tie perhaps around her head. See the white thing? Doesn't look like any kind of a hairtie to me...but more like a plastic cord or line. Her clothes look like 70s style, too.

http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/c/calico_tara.html

It does resemble her a lot but the women in the photo seems to have much thinner eyebrows.

[Mr. E]

This poor woman also resembles Tara Grinstead.

[SeriouslySearching]

Originally Posted by Mr. E

This poor woman also resembles Tara Grinstead.

She does in a way, but I just checked all the later pics of TG and the bangs are long. The girl in the photo has decidedly short bangs.

The eyebrows in OSBI photo look like TC's, but look to be 'plucked' so they are thinner.

[pedinurse]

i'm really bad with comparisons so i don't know about her looking like TG - but her bangs are long. they are just pushed back away from her face (straight back).

[pedinurse]

my husband also pointed out that she has a ring around one eye (a black eye maybe?).

[christine2448]

The hand doesn't look odd to me. I picture her lying on her side with her arm bent and her hand under her head, just like I sleep? LIke if you were sitting up and leaned your head on your hand?

I'm ending each comment w/? cause I'm not sure I am explaining right or maybe I am not viewing right.

[pedinurse]

someone earlier said "well maybe this girl was just going to sleep."

i just highly doubt that the OSBI would go into a major investigation over this if they thought that.

[Tuffy101]

Originally Posted by SeriouslySearching

She does in a way, but I just checked all the later pics of TG and the bangs are long. The girl in the photo has decidedly short bangs.

The eyebrows in OSBI photo look like TC's, but look to be 'plucked' so they are thinner.

Could the artist have cleared up so much of the face he added the eyebrows they look to perfect.Someone needs to send those photos in to the news channel that ran the story.

[SeriouslySearching]

If it is her, then this would be a new lead in her investigation. How would OSBI NOT know this?! I find it very odd they haven't checked this out already. Is our State Bureau THAT backwards?! Doesn't make me feel very secure living here!

[SeriouslySearching]

The more I read that story OSBI put out...the more I believe they know it is her and are just fishing. Makes me angry they would risk her family seeing it tho. The sick perp tortures the family in this way and it isn't right for the them to put that pic out to the public. Why would they do that?! It makes no sense. It isn't going to help to find the perp! They need to quit playing around and go after who was around that station before they found the pic.

[MissieMt]

Has anyone submitted her name to them-just to be on the safe side? These cases get passed around so much, perhaps they are that uninformed.

[SeriouslySearching]

I will call my friend at the station later today and tell him. He can call them.

[mjak]

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

[txsvicki]

Originally Posted by mjak

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

I don't think it looks that much like Tara either and I also am pretty sure that I read that her mom has passed away. The woman in the pic looks to me like she is asleep and has a robe or is wearing a night gown. I suppose the authorities believe there is something wrong or they wouldn't be asking for help from the public though.

[MagicRose99]

Originally Posted by txsvicki

I don't think it looks that much like Tara either and I also am pretty sure that I read that her mom has passed away. The woman in the pic looks to me like she is asleep and has a robe or is wearing a night gown. I suppose the authorities believe there is something wrong or they wouldn't be asking for help from the public though.

If I remember correctly, the article states that they touched up the photo for "public viewing". I took that to mean that she didn't look so great in the original pic...

[kgeaux]

Originally Posted by txsvicki

I don't think it looks that much like Tara either and I also am pretty sure that I read that her mom has passed away. The woman in the pic looks to me like she is asleep and has a robe or is wearing a night gown. I suppose the authorities believe there is something wrong or they wouldn't be asking for help from the public though.

I think the article says something about the photo being hurriedly "cleaned up" for publication------there was obviously something in that picture which has been touched up to make it benign enough to publish. I think the area around the mouth looks airbrushed, and it's possible that tape was removed, or blood, or wounds.....

If the article hadn't said that, I'd agree it could just be someone drifting off to sleep. But after reading that, I look at her little face and just see such resignation and hopelessness.

I hope she is identified and found soon.

[laini]

Originally Posted by mjak

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

http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/c/calico_tara.html

Tara Calico seems to have that type of earlobe in a few of her pictures, doesn't she? Am I seeing things?

[trixie]

Originally Posted by mjak

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...el-waited-for/

[wildTrose]

couldnt this woman be a head injury case, and this is a picture the family took? or perhaps she has some disease that has effected her movements?
she doesnt look injured or dead to me just unable to move possibly

[missacorah]

She may just have had her pic taken as she was drifting off to sleep. IMO there is nothing to suggest she is dead or dying! But of course none of us know how much 'photoshopping' has been carried out on the pic.