14 Facts About Billy Milligan

Billy Milligan's lawyers pleaded insanity, claiming that two of his alternate personalities committed the crimes without Milligan being aware of it.

Billy Milligan was the first person diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder to raise such a defense, and the first acquitted of a major crime for this reason, instead spending a decade in psychiatric hospitals.

Billy Milligan was born William Stanley Morrison on February 14,1955, in Miami Beach, to Dorothy Pauline Sands and Johnny Morrison.

Billy Milligan was hospitalized for acute alcoholism and depression in.

Billy Milligan had a daughter, Challa, the same age as Billy, and another daughter who was a nurse.

Keyes claimed that Billy Milligan had multiple personalities from a much earlier age with his first three appearing by the time he was five years old.

In October 1977, Billy Milligan was arrested for raping three women on the Ohio State University campus.

Billy Milligan was then examined by psychologist Dorothy Turner of Southwest Community Mental Health Center in Columbus, Ohio.

Billy Milligan was sent to a series of state-run psychiatric hospitals, such as the Athens State Hospital, where, by his report, he received very little help.

Billy Milligan received treatment from psychiatrist David Caul MD, who diagnosed the additional 14 personalities.

In 1986, Billy Milligan had escaped the mental facility where he had been committed.

Billy Milligan was released in 1988 after a decade in psychiatric hospitals, where he moved back to Lancaster, Ohio with his mother for a couple years.

Billy Milligan died of cancer at a nursing home in Columbus, Ohio, on December 12,2014.

The docuseries mentions that Billy Milligan had confessed being a murderer to his niece prior to his death, and links him to two unsolved murders.