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NEW YORK (CBS) In a mother's account of a murder mystery that haunted Southern California, MY STOLEN SON: The Nick Markowitz Story by Susan Markowitz with Jenna Glatzer, tells the true story of the murder of 15-year-old Nicholas Markowitz by Jesse James Hollywood, the youngest man to ever appear on the FBI's top ten "Most Wanted" list. - CBS News Interview

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On the morning of August 6, 2000, fifteen year-old Nicholas Markowitz - knowing he was in trouble with his parents - snuck out of the house. He never came home. One week later, authorities arrived on Susan's doorstep with devastating news: her son had been found dead. Days earlier, a 20 year-old drug dealer, Jesse James Hollywood, and 3 of his accomplices, had kidnapped the teenager in broad daylight as revenge for a drug-related debt owed by Nick's half brother. They later murdered the innocent boy in cold blood, and buried him in a shallow grave. Hollywood fled to Brazil as a fugitive and became the youngest man ever on the FBI's top ten "Most Wanted" list. It would be nearly a decade before he was brought to justice.

Initially, Susan had thought only about getting justice for her son. But along the way, she rediscovered her own will to live, and promised to honor her beloved son's memory by making sure something positive came from the pain he had to endure. MY STOLEN SON is the gripping account of one mother's relentless 9-year fight to bring her son's killer to justice, and to rebuild a family shattered by an unconscionable crime.

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