Michael Alig dead heroin overdose: NYC Club Kid Killer rise & fall
ecstasy and ketamine, liquor with a motley of who’s who in the scene. Except while they went home and back to their normal life, this was by now the only 24-7 round the clock life, that Alig came to know. It would eventually take a heavy toll. In March 1996, Alig and another friend, Robert ‘Freeze’ Riggs, got into an argument with a small-time drug-peddling pal, Angel Melendez, while they were all on ketamine. Alig admitted to him and Riggs beating Melendez to death, then dismembering his body and tossing body parts into the Hudson River. Pictured, James St James and Michael Alig (...