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'Club Kid' killer Michael Alig dies; overdose suspected

| December 26, 2020 1:30 PM

NEW YORK (AP) — Notorious “club kid” killer Michael Alig, who served 17 years in prison for killing his roommate over a drug debt in a case that became a book and film, has died of a suspected drug overdose six years after his release, police said. He was 54.

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