Not quite. After the clawhammer failed to do the job, Alig proceeded to smother Andre Melendez with a pillow or a wadded up sweater (depending on the source), but when he realized Melendez was still breathing, Alig poured drain cleaning fluid down Melendez’s throat while he was unconscious and taped his mouth shut with duct tape until he choked to death on the fluid. The body then spent about a week “marinating” in Michael Alig’s bathtub until he and a fuck buddy Robert Riggs proceeded to disarticulate Melendez’s decomposed body with a meat cleaver and threw the bits and pieces into the Hudson River. 17 years for that.
And just think for a moment, this is the man Piggylou worships and adores and aspires to turn her own 12 year old son into his clone.