The Party Monster Is Out

It has been seventeen years since Michael Alig was sent to New York state prison for the murder and dismemberment of Angel Melendez. Alig one of the original club kids in Manhattan during the 1090's was famous (of a sort) for being outrageous and on the edge of what was happening. He was one of the people who said what was happening. What was happening was coming out of his drug addled mind and it didn't turn out well. His story can be found in the book "Disco Bloodbath" (later renamed "Party Monster") written by James St James. 
Alig was a friend/client/business partner to Melendez who was staying at his home in 1996. Alig apparently owed Melendez money and along with his boyfriend Freeze Riggs bludgeoned, smothered, poisoned and dismembered him. Melendez's body was found of the shore of Staten Island. There was an investigation and in the end Riggs and Alig plead guilty. 
Michael Alig was sentenced to 20 years in prison. Gave up drugs and has done his time. There was one previous patrol hearing that was turned down because of the movie version of St James' book starring Macaulay Culkin. This week Alig's parole was granted and he is now a free man.