June 8, 2008
‘Barbecue pit’ killer gets date with parole board
A man who helped his girlfriend kill her parents and burn their corpses in 1975 is making a new bid for parole.
Charles David Riley is scheduled to appear before a panel of parole officials on July 1 at the California Men's Colony in San Luis Obispo. Riley, who was 19 when the murders occurred, has applied for parole a dozen times.
Riley was convicted of helping Marlene Olive, his 16-year-old girlfriend, murder her adoptive parents, James and Naomi Olive of Terra Linda. The Olives were then doused with flammable liquid and set on fire in an old sewage cistern used as a barbecue pit at China Camp State Park…
LINK - MarinIJ.com (Marin Independent Journal)
