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Billy Milligan Billy Milligan

Born

William Stanley Milligan

February 14, 1955 Miami Beach, Florida

Died

December 12, 2014(aged 59) Columbus, Ohio

Known for

Multiple personality disorder

Criminal charge

Rape, armed robbery

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Billy Milligan

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However, Billy had multiple personalities from a much earlier age, with his first three (no-name boy, Christene, and Shawn) appearing by the time he was five years William Stanley Milligan (February 14, 1955 – December 12, 2014) was an American citizen who was the subject of a highly publicized court case in Ohio in the late 1970s. After having committed several felonies including armed robbery, he was arrested for three rapes on the campus of Ohio State University. In the course of

preparing his defense, psychologists diagnosed Milligan with multiple personality disorder. His lawyers pleaded insanity, claiming that two of his alternate personalities committed the crimes without Milligan being aware of it. He was the first person diagnosed with multiple personality disorder to raise such a defense,[1] and the first acquitted of a major crime for this reason, instead spending a decade in mental hospitals. Milligan's life story was popularized by Daniel Keyes's award-winning nonfiction novel The Minds of Billy Milligan. Childhood Billy’s mother, Dorothy, grew up in Ohio farm country and lived in Lancaster with her previous husband. They divorced, and Dorothy eventually moved to the Miami area, where she worked as a singer. Billy Milligan was born on Valentine's Day, 1955 in Miami Beach to Dorothy Milligan and Johnny Morrison. His father, John Morrison, had an affair with his mother which resulted in two children: Jim Milligan, in October 1953, and a daughter, Kathy Jo Milligan, born in December 1956. Morrison struggled with fatherhood and meeting the medical expenses overwhelmed Johnny. He borrowed more, gambled more, drank more and was hospitalized for acute alcoholism and depression in 1958. In what appeared to be a suicide attempt, Dorothy found him slumped over the table, half a bottle of Scotch and an empty bottle of sleeping pills on the floor. A few months after this attempt, on January 17, 1959, Johnny committed suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning. Milligan was only four. This may have been the start of Billy's disorder, but it is unknown. Dorothy took her children and moved away from Miami, eventually returning to Lancaster, Ohio, where she remarried her ex-husband. This marriage lasted about a year. In 1962, she met Chalmer Milligan (1927–1988). Chalmer's first wife Bernice divorced him on "grounds of gross neglect". He had a daughter, Challa, the same age as Billy, and another daughter who was a nurse. Dorothy and Chalmer married in Circleville, Ohio, on October 27, 1963 when Billy was eight years old. Arrest In 1975, Milligan was imprisoned at Lebanon Correctional Institution in Ohio for rape and armed robbery. He was released on parole in early 1977 and was required to register as a sex offender. In October 1977, Milligan

was arrested for raping three women on the Ohio State University campus. He was identified by one of his victims from existing police mug shots of sex offenders, and from fingerprints lifted from another victim's car. One of the victims said that he was quite nice and that he acted like a 3-year-old girl. Since he used a gun during the crime and guns were found in a search of his residence, he had violated his parole as well. He was indicted on three counts of kidnapping, three counts of aggravated robbery and four counts of rape". He then stayed in the Ohio State Penitentiary. In the course of preparing his defense, he underwent a psychological examination by Dr. Willis C. Driscoll, who diagnosed Milligan with acute schizophrenia. He was then examined by psychologist Dorothy Turner of Southwest Community Mental Health Center in Columbus, Ohio. During this examination, Turner concluded that Milligan suffered from multiple personality disorder. Milligan's public defenders, Gary Schweickart and Judy Stevenson, pleaded an insanity defense, and he was committed "…until such time as he regains sanity". Billy accused his step-father of raping him, burying him alive, and hanging him by his fingers and toes. Chalmer Milligan denied all these claims and was never charged. Incarceration Milligan was sent to a series of state-run mental hospitals, such as the Athens State Hospital, where, by his report, he received very little help. While he was in these hospitals, Milligan reported having ten different personalities. These ten were the only ones known to psychologists. Later, an additional 14 personalities, labeled "The Undesirables", were discovered. 

Arthur, a prim and proper Englishman who was an expert in science, medicine and hematology

 Allen, a manipulator 

Tommy, an escape artist and technophile (a person who is enthusiastic about new technology)

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Ragen Vadascovinich, a Yugoslav communist who Milligan claimed had committed the robberies in a kind of Robin Hood spirit

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Adalana, a 19-year-old lesbian who cooked for all the personalities and craved affection and who had allegedly committed the rapes.

Milligan received treatment from psychiatrist David Caul, who diagnosed the additional fourteen personalities. Release Milligan was released in 1988 after a decade in mental hospitals, and discharged from the Ohio mental health system and the Ohio courts on August 1, 1991. In 1996 he lived in California where he owned Stormy Life Productions and was going to make a short film (which apparently has never been made). His location thereafter remained for a long time unknown, his former acquaintances having lost contact with him. Death Milligan died of cancer at a nursing home in Columbus, Ohio, on December 12, 2014. He was 59. Books Daniel Keyes authored a biographical non-fiction novel called The Minds of Billy Milligan (1981, available in fourteen languages). His follow-up book, The Milligan Wars, was published in Japan in 1994, in Taiwan in 2000, in France in 2009, in Ukraine in 2018, but not yet in the United States, first owing to Milligan's ongoing lawsuit against the State of Ohio for the allegedly inadequate treatment he received in Ohio facilities, then to the desire to tie its release to an in-development film. Film Several attempts had been made by Hollywood to adapt Keyes' book. In the early 1990s, James Cameron co-wrote a screenplay with Todd Graff for a film version he was to direct then-titled A Crowded Room. This adaptation never came into fruition because Cameron was sued by adaptation rightsholder Sandy Arcara, demanding "her salary should be raised from $250,000 to $1.5 million"; seeing the project stalled, Milligan also sued Cameron in 1993. After Cameron left the project, Warner Bros. continued to develop it now slightly retitled The Crowded Room, with directors Joel Schumacher and David Fincher attached at various points. Actors courted for the role of Milligan included Matthew McConaughey, Johnny Depp, Brad Pitt, Sean Penn and John Cusack. As of August 2014, the film remains in limbo. In February 2015, it was confirmed that Leonardo DiCaprio would star as Milligan, with Jason Smilovic set to write the script....