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188: Episode 188 - Michael Alig: Confessions of a Club Kid Killer

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Wondery | RedHanded

True Crime

4.518.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2021

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

In a world where drug use was rampant and controversy was currency, confessions of murder weren't even enough to raise heavily painted eyebrows. This is the story of how one of New York's hottest promoters fell from grace to cause the death of a man and the death of New York's club scene.


In this week's episode of RedHanded, we discuss the killing of Angel Melendez and how Michael Alig went from making TV appearances at the forefront of the groundbreaking Club Kid movement, to killing a man, and then chopping him up in exchange for ten bags of heroin.


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0:51.0

so I've engineered this entire situation so I can talk about Reforce Drag Race.

0:55.0

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1:01.0

I said it wrong, and then everyone was very upset with me.

1:04.0

I'm sorry, people.

1:05.0

There's a lot of viewing to be done, and that's just not one yet that has made its way into my rotation,

1:09.0

because I'm so busy watching fucking event horizon for some reason.

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I would be so interested to see what you think of it.

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I think I would probably enjoy it. I feel like it just looks like America's next top model,

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but more fierce and less tyra, which I'm fine with.

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1:28.0

and arguably a bit less problematic than America's next top model.

1:32.0

Precisely.

1:33.0

So maybe I am all here for it without knowing.

1:36.0

But no, I'm excited. And before we delve into this rather glamorous, but grizzly case today,

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