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Nicholas Samuel Markowitz (September 19, 1984 – August 9, 2000) was an American teenager who was kidnapped and murdered at the age of 15 after a feud over drug money between his half-brother Benjamin Markowitz and Jesse James Hollywood.
Jan 5, 2022 · Nicholas Markowitz was a high school theater kid who was an avid reader. His older half-brother, Benjamin, ran with an amateur gang of wannabe tough guys who sold marijuana and ecstasy. While their parents hoped to shield Nick from those criminal elements, they came for him anyway.
Oct 19, 2013 · In August 2000, 15-year-old Nicholas Markowitz was kidnapped because of a drug debt his half brother owed a dealer named Jesse James Hollywood. The innocent teen was held for three days,...
Dec 10, 2000 · Hours before he was killed, Nick Markowitz thought he was finally going home. It had been a strange, often scary two-day odyssey since a group of young men had snatched him off the street in his...
Nov 7, 2023 · The true Alpha Dog story unfolds in a graphic tale of anger, impulse, greed, and drug debt. This is the story of the death of Nick Markowitz and the last 48 hours of his life.
Dec 13, 2010 · On the morning of August 6, 2000, Nick Markowitz, knowing he was in trouble with his parents, snuck out of the house... and never came home. Jesse James Hollywood, a 20-year-old drug dealer, and...
Jul 16, 2009 · Hollywood was convicted last week of the first-degree murder and kidnapping of Nicholas Markowitz, in August 2000 over what prosecutors say was a drug debt owed by Nicholas’s half-brother, Ben...
Oct 18, 2013 · Jesse Rugge, now 33, was an accomplice of Jesse James Hollywood in the Aug. 2000 murder of San Fernando High School student Nicholas Markowitz, a high-profile case that inspired the movie “Alpha...
Jul 8, 2009 · It didn’t take long after hikers found the body of 15-year-old Nicholas Markowitz – buried in a shallow grave at Lizard’s Mouth in the mountains above Santa Barbara on August 12, 2000 – for investigators to name Hollywood as a prime suspect in the murder.
Nov 1, 2001 · SANTA BARBARA — After he was kidnapped and taken to Santa Barbara, Nicholas Markowitz was barely guarded and could easily have fled, two witnesses testified Wednesday.
