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Andre Melendez was born on 1 May, 1971 in Colombia, is a Murdered dancer and purported drug dealer. Discover Andre Melendez's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 25 years old?

Popular As Andre Melendez
Occupation Club Kid
Age 25 years old
Zodiac Sign Taurus
Born 1 May, 1971
Birthday 1 May
Birthplace Colombia
Date of death 1996
Died Place New York City
Nationality Colombia

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1925

Riggs confessed, "We took the body to the Westside Highway around 25th Street. The taxi drove off, and we threw the box into the river."

However, Alig gave some conflicting details.

For example, he stated he used liquid Drano (and baking soda) to combat the smell of the malodorous decomposition after the body had sat several days in the bathtub.

At first, Alig claimed the killing was in self-defense, but he later admitted to having committed manslaughter.

1971

Andre Melendez (May 1, 1971 – March 17, 1996) was a member of the Club Kids and purported drug dealer who lived and worked in New York City.

1990

Melendez purportedly became a drug dealer during the early 1990s after he met Peter Gatien, owner of The Limelight and several other nightclubs in New York City, and became a regular dealer in Gatien's clubs.

He was frequently seen at Manhattan clubs wearing his signature feathered wings.

1996

He was killed by Michael Alig and Robert "Freeze" Riggs on March 17, 1996.

His life and death have inspired several pieces of media, including books, films, music, and television.

Melendez and his family arrived in New York from Colombia when Melendez was eight years old.

On Sunday, March 17, 1996, Melendez was killed by Michael Alig and Robert D. "Freeze" Riggs.

According to various statements, the confrontation became violent and Melendez got the better of Alig, who cried out for help.

Riggs then hit Melendez on the head with a hammer, three times (until Melendez "went down"), after which Alig smothered him (either with a pillow or sweatshirt, depending upon the source), next poured a "cleaner or chemical" into his mouth, and then wrapped duct tape around it.

The 2 then stripped Melendez's body and placed it in the bathtub, where it remained for 5–7 days.

According to Riggs, he then purchased "2 chef knives and 1 cleaver" at Macy's, with which he said Alig dismembered Melendez's legs, which the roommates wrapped separately in garbage bags, placed into individual duffle bags, and dumped in the Hudson River.

The following day, they wrapped the upper body in a sheet and plastic garbage bag, placed it in a cardboard box from which Riggs had removed the UPC code, and together took the heavy box down the elevator and through the main lobby, and then placed it in the trunk of a Yellow Cab "that happened to be right outside the door."

(American Justice reports the box was found in April 1996. ) A tropical storm had helped propel the floating, cork-lined box to Staten Island.

Mainstream media began covering Melendez's disappearance when the victim's brother and father turned to the press for help and interest grew in rumors – first publicized to outsiders by Michael Musto as a blind item in his Village Voice column – that Alig and Riggs had murdered Melendez.

The coincidental discovery, on Friday, September 8, 1996, of another dismembered body, fished out of the Harlem River at a pier near 134th Street by a homeless woman, sparked police to begin investigating the case in earnest.

A police officer in Staten Island, who caught the Melendez media coverage, initiated an investigation of the John Doe found at Miller Field.

The Staten Island Police Department used dental records to identify Melendez (whose body the coroner had mis-identified as that of an Asian male); on November 2, 1996, the mutilated corpse was positively identified as Melendez, and details of the rumors about how Melendez was killed were confirmed.

In the face of increasing police scrutiny, Alig fled to Toms River, New Jersey, where he moved into a motel room with his boyfriend, a drug dealer named Brian.

On December 5, 1996, the police arrested Alig at the motel and hours later, Riggs in Manhattan.

Alig insisted to the police he and Riggs had killed Melendez in self-defense, and disposed of the body in a panic.

(This story contrasts sharply with the account Alig had given the victim's brother, John ("Johnny") Melendez, in an August 1996 conversation secretly taped by the District Attorney's office, implicating "Melendez and club czar Gatien in a drug-dealing venture at Gatien's nightspots," and charging "that Riggs killed Melendez for Gatien because 'Peter is in trouble right now for drugs' and 'Angel knew everything and he was threatening to go to...his friend at the Village Voice and tell him all this stuff." ) Prosecutors were hesitant to charge Alig with first-degree murder, as they still hoped he would testify against his former boss, Gatien, who had been arrested for allowing drugs to be sold in his nightclubs.

They eventually offered both Alig and Riggs a plea deal: a sentence of 10 to 20 years if they accepted the lesser charge of manslaughter.

1997

On October 1, 1997, both pleaded guilty and were sentenced to 10 to 20 years.

(American Justice reports they pleaded guilty and were sentenced on September 10, 1997. ) Because of their convictions, Alig and Riggs were not used as prosecution witnesses in Gatien's trial.

On October 1, 1997, Alig and Riggs were sentenced to 10 to 20 years in prison for Melendez's killing, after each pleaded guilty to one count of manslaughter.

2013

Clubland: The Monster Pop Party (2013), a musical adaptation of St. James' book Party Monster and its 2003 eponymous film adaptation, debuted April 11, 2013, at the American Repertory Theater's Club Oberon, with book, music, and lyrics by Andrew Barret Cox

2014

Riggs was released on parole in 2010, Alig on May 5, 2014.

2015

In the documentary film Glory Daze (2015), the police recount the discovery by a group of children at the beach at Miller Field, Staten Island, of a box containing the remains of Melendez, in March 1996.

2020

On December 24, 2020, Alig died of a drug overdose at the age of 54.

Melendez's murder case has also been featured in multiple TV series, including: