Bad Blood

"In the summer of 1975, Jim and Naomi Olive, a quiet suburban couple living in Terra Linda, California, were brutally murdered in a bedroom of their ranch house. Ten days later, after their incinerated remains were discovered in a teenage trysting area, the Olives' sixteen year old daughter, Marlene, and her twenty year old boyfriend, Chuck Riley were arrested and charged with the crime. This is the story of the grisly double-murder and its aftermath, with many of the harrowing details provided by the recollections under hypnosis, of one of the killers. It is a psychological drama about two young people whose relationship was "more akin to slavery than love." It is an excursion into the sexually permissive, drug-oriented, occult-fascinated teenage culture of Marin County which Marlene Olive could not handle, and her parents could never understand. This is a book about suburbia, the gap between generations and the disintegration of an American family."--dust jacket.