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The First Degree

Episode 206: Jesse James Hollywood

The First Degree

Alexis Linkletter and Jac Vanek

True Crime, Society & Culture, News

4.510K Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

On August 6, 2000, a 15 year old student walking not far from his home in Los Angeles is snatched off the street. Little does anyone know, he’ll never see his family again. When details emerge about what preceded the young man’s disappearance and what transpired afterwards, the motive, sequence of events and the many people involved make it seem like something out of a movie. In fact, it does become a movie, which only adds fuel to the fire, thanks to a state prosecutor having a questionable level of creative input on the project. To complicate matters, the orchestrator of the horrific events goes on the run, prompting an international manhunt and evading capture for almost 5 years. In episode 206, Jac and Alexis detail the case of Jesse James Hollywood, and how the murder of Nicholas Markowitz appalled the affluent neighbourood of West Hills, California.

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First degree.

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First degree.

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First degree.

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First degree.

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First degree.

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Get on the news.

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Get on the cable.

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Get on the cable.

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He thinks there's supposed to happen in movies.

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Not in real life.

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All of my memories of him kind of came rushing back.

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I thought of that time that he threatened me.

0:28.0

And I did feel really anxious and freaked out.

0:34.0

Because that was real.

0:36.0

And if I had kept hanging out with him,

0:40.0

I mean, we were young.

0:42.0

But if I kept hanging out with him,

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who knows what kind of shit you would have tried to get me into?

0:46.0

You have to trust your gut and listen to yourself,

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listen to your intuition.

0:52.0

And it also taught me that people can be really bad.

0:56.0

If someone gives you a warning sign,

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