In 1975, Jim and Naomi Olive, a middle-class couple living in the shopping mall community of Terra Linda, nineteen miles north of San Francisco, were mur­dered. Their sixteen-year-old adopted daugh­ter, Marlene Olive, planned and instigated the crime; Chuck Riley, her twenty-year-old boyfriend, carried it out. They burned the bodies in a public barbecue pit, thus … Continue reading Richard M. Levine, ‘Bad Blood’ (11/82)