On June 21, 1975, Vince Torini, a firefighter with the San Rafael Fire Department,

was preparing to do some training when a local man approached him at the station and let

him know that something was burning in the fire pit at China Lake State Park.

Since it was a hot and dry summer day, it was a fire hazard, so the firefighter and a helper drove out to

the park to take a look. Once there, they spotted the fire pit, which was smoking heavily,

but barely burning. They put out the remaining embers and raked out the ash where they noticed

some bone fragments. Vince radioed in that the fire was out, and in his report, he described the bone

fragments in the ash, suggesting they were probably from a deer. He and the helper left the scene,

having accomplished their mission, not knowing that it had not been a deer that had been

burned in the fire pit. The bones he had seen were the remains of two people who had been murdered in cold blood.

This is Monsters. James Olive, who went by Jim, was born on March 19, 1916 in Austin, Pennsylvania.

He had an older sister named Eunice, and the family moved to Panama when Jim was only nine years old.

His father had a friend who had started an English language newspaper in the country, and he was going to manage the business.

Jim began delivering and selling the paper, which began his

long career in sales and business ventures. When you return to the states, he began attending

Pennsylvania State College, initially majoring in science. After he and a friend caused a lab explosion,

he changed his major to business.

He graduated in 1937 and eventually returned to Panama after the newspaper was sold off.

He attempted to develop the land and sell the plots but wasn't successful.

In 1941, Jim was drafted into the U.S. Army and worked as a mail sensor, ensuring nobody was sending sensitive information in the mail, whether intentional or not. It was while he was

serving in Burma that his mother mailed him a picture of herself with a young woman named Naomi

Wagner. Naomi was born in 1923 in Cuba, New York, in an area where the olives had built up one

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