New York Daily News reports.Thirty years ago, the Indiana-born Alig was the ringleader of the "Club Kids," a group of flamboyant — and often queer — New Yorkers who threw and attended drug-fueled parties and raves.
The Club Kids' creative outfits and rampant drug use generated national media interest in the early '90s. The notoriety affected an already unstable Alig and his drug use and disconnect from reality intensified.
During an argument over drug debts in his apartment in March 1996, Alig and his roommate, Robert Riggs, murdered their acquaintance and dealer Angel Melendez.Alig and Riggs dismembered Melendez's body and, days later, dumped it in the Hudson River.