Murder in Clubland: Michael Alig & the Murder of Andre "Angel" Melendez Feat. Natalie Donna
Roberta Glass True Crime Report
Roberta Glass
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🗓️ 29 October 2022
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the Roberta Glass True Crime Report, putting the true back in true crime. |
| 0:26.1 | From New York City, Roberta Glass is now on the record. |
| 0:44.4 | On March 1996, New York City Club promoter Michael Alley and Robert Freeze Riggs murdered fellow club club kid and drug dealer Angel Melendez. According to Riggs, Allig and Melendez had gotten |
| 0:50.4 | into an argument that turned physical. Riggs intervened, smashing Angel over the head, |
| 0:56.4 | three times with a hammer, after which Alec smothered Angel Melendez and poured Dreino down his throat, |
| 1:03.1 | duct-taping Angel's mouth shut. The pair left Angel Melendez's body in their apartment for over a week |
| 1:10.7 | before Allig agreed to chop up Angel's body in exchange for ten bags of heroin. |
| 1:17.1 | After Allig dismembered Angel Melendez's body, Allig and Riggs put Angels remains in a duffel bag and a box and threw it into the Hudson River. However, their plan had one |
| 1:30.2 | fatal flaw. They forgot to poke a hole in the box. By the time Angel's body washed ashore in Staten |
| 1:38.7 | Island, Alec had already confessed to many of his club-going buddies, but no one wanted to turn the king |
| 1:46.7 | of the club kids into authorities. When journalist Michael Musto's blind item, describing the |
| 1:53.8 | murder of Angel, but not naming the killer or the victim, appeared in the village voice on April |
| 1:59.7 | 26, 1996, law enforcement took notice. |
| 2:05.3 | October 1st, 1997, both Allig and Riggs pled guilty to manslaughter and were sentenced to 10 to 20 years. |
| 2:13.8 | Riggs was released from prison in 2010 and Allig was released from prison in 2014. |
| 2:20.7 | Michael Allig died from an overdose on December 24th, 2020. |
| 2:26.6 | To speak with me about this case is Natalie Donna from the Dysopian Deep Dives podcast. |
| 2:33.7 | Welcome Natalie Donna. Thanks. How are you? |
| 2:37.3 | Great. So thanks so much for talking to me about this. So who was Michael Allig in 1996? |
| 2:42.7 | I wasn't experiencing that, but it was definitely on the talk shows, which was something I was watching at the time. |
| 2:52.6 | And it was fascinating to see these people all dressed up in really crazy kinds of outfits, lots of cross-dressing. |
| 2:58.9 | It was fascinating to me as a kid at the time. But I know that you sort of experienced some of that |
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