Michael Alig (born South Bend, Indiana, April 29, 1966) is the co-founding member of the Club Kids, a group of young clubgoers led by Alig and his long-time best friend James St. James in the late 1980s and early 1990s. In 1996, Alig pleaded guilty to manslaughter after killing and dismembering Andre "Angel" Melendez in a confrontation over a drug debt.
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I know why I blabbed. I must have wanted to stop me. I was spinning out of control. It's like the old saying 'What do you have to do to get attention around here - kill somebody?' [on why he confessed to murdering Angel Melendez]
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Alig and his accomplice Robert Riggs pleaded guilty to manslaughter and were sentenced to 10 to 20 years in prison for Andre "Angel" Melendez's death [December 1997]
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Convicted of manslaughter in the first degree. [October 1997]
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Denied parole, allegedly after parole officers watched the movie based on Alig's life, Party Monster (2003), starring Macaulay Culkin. [October 2006]
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Currently incarcerated at the Washington Correctional Facility in Washington County, New York. Alig now believes his release will be sometime between August and October 2010. He is currently at work on an autobiography. [August 2010]
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