title: San Francisco's Golden Gate Park: A Thousand and Seventeen Acres of Stories
author: Christopher Pollock
description: Christopher Pollock is an award-winning designer whose projects have been featured in Sunset, The San Francisco Chronicle, and Metropolitan Home, as well as several professional journals and books. His work has included an essay for the San Francisco Examiner Magazine, a design workbook, and a textbook. He has lived in San Francisco for more than twenty years.
zlib_text: Concrete
  
  Evidence
  
  Conrad Jones
  
  Copyright © 2015 Conrad Jones
  
    
    
  
  PROLOGUE
  
  SAN FRANCISCO
  
    
    
  
  The drive across the Golden Gate Bridge to the giant redwoods at Muir Woods
  had been exhilarating. He slowed the motor home to a crawl to glance across
  the bay at Alcatraz Island. Across the bay, the pepper pot shape of Coit Tower
  looked like a chess piece from that distance. The bay wind buffeted the side
  of the RV threatening to blow it across into the next lane of oncoming
  traffic. Below the bridge, thick clouds of mist rolled in on the breeze making
  it impossible to see the water below.
  
  It had been easy to blend in with the other visitors to the city. Hunting them
  had been simple. Immensely exciting but simple. The Tenderloin area of the
  city, on Nob Hill, thus known because it was where the dark underbelly of life
  was situated, was a predator’s paradise. It was saturated with prostitution,
  porn and pills. Finding and trapping his prey was easy. The hunt for his
  victims was over