(Editor's note: OL contributor Barbara Grady was a reporter with the Oakland Tribune on Aug. 2, 2007 - the day of Bailey's murder. She reflects on that day and shares her thoughts as this almost four-year mourning period for journalists moves to the next phase - healing.)

by Barbara Grady

Two reporters and a photographer observed one of Oakland's busiest sex trafficking locales for eight hours one night in late February, 2010. We watched from the second story of an empty building on International Boulevard ("The Track") at 42nd Street. This story is about one person who kept reappearing into view...