Chris Moyer never felt quite at ease growing up in the flatlands of Oklahoma City. Slender, with straight brown hair and a subtle, wan smile, she read books with near obsession, immersing herself in stories of elsewhere.
Like many before her, she was drawn to the idea of San Francisco and moved west in the early 1980s to chase a Summer of Love that had ended more than a decade prior. Over the next 30 years, she made a life for herself, settling into the Rose Hotel in SoMa where she had a community of friends and proudly expressed her fierce loyalty to her adopted home.
That life came to an abrupt end in a back alley on Christmas Eve in 2018. Michael Jacobs — four days out from a state-run mental hospital — allegedly snuck up behind the 64-year-old Moyer as she was smoking, stabbed her in the back, and slashed and sawed at her throat with a butcher knife, nearly decapitating her…