the bridge. Many have campaigned to have it extended. The Cabrillo Bridge has seen too much tragedy.
A 1986 cold-case murder (which happened not too far away from our investigation site), was recently solved in 2007 when four men were arrested for the rape and murder of a thirty-seven-year-old woman. The incident occurred when a woman and two male friends were approached by seven men who attacked, robbed, and tied them up. The men dragged the woman off to a canyon south of the golf course, where they raped and killed her. The women’s two friends survived. In 2007, the murderer was tracked via DNA that finally matched one of the men when he was put into the system for a crime. The men were arrested and charged for their crimes. The crime rate inside the park is infamous and was even highlighted in the opening scene of T. Jefferson Parker’s novel The Fallen, in which a San Diego Ethics Commission director is found murdered in his SUV on a dirt road near the bridge.
“I didn’t know anything at all about the Cabrillo Bridge in San Diego when I set out to write The Fallen in 2005,” says T. Jefferson Parker. “All I knew is that it was stately and elegant, and it was built as part of Balboa Park for the [Panama-California] Exposition in 1915, and that I’d drive under it every time I went to the airport. I read in the San Diego Union-Tribune that a homeless man had been found living within the bridge and of course evicted. I didn’t know about its haunted, bloody past at all. It’s a beauty, and I love it even more now that I know about its shady, spooky history. Maybe it was just a gut-level instinct that made me set that murder under the Cabrillo Bridge.”
Balboa Park is visited by thirteen million visitors a year and is patrolled in the day by San Diego Police—unfortunately, its loyal horse patrol was auctioned off to the highest bidder and replaced by ATVs. In the daytime, you rarely have the chance to be alone, as many buildings house more than a dozen museums, and others are the headquarters for organizations such as the San Diego History Center, where you can find more background on just about all the San Diego locations listed in this book.
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