As of October 2006 was denied parole, allegedly after parole officials watched the movie based on his life, Party Monster (2003), starring Macaulay Culkin.
[why he confessed to murdering drug dealer Andre Melendez] I know why I blabbed. I must have wanted to stop me. I was spinning out of control. It's like the old saying, "What do you have to do to get attention around here--kill somebody?".
