Apple TV+'s new limited series is inspired by the life of Billy Milligan, the first-ever defendant to be found not guilty due to dissociative identity disorder
In 1977, 22-year-old William “Billy” Stanley Milligan was arrested for the kidnapping, robbery, and rape of three women around the Ohio State University campus area. While undergoing a psychiatric evaluation following his arrest, Milligan insisted that a man named Ragen was responsible for the robberies while a woman named Adalana had committed the rapes.
By the time his case went to trial, doctors had determined that Ragen and Adalana were two of 10 alternate personalities that existed within Milligan’s mind as a result of severe physical and sexual abuse he had allegedly suffered at the hands of his stepfather, Chalmer Milligan, as a child. He was later diagnosed with an additional 14 identities.
In December 1978, Milligan was acquitted of his crimes by reason of insanity caused by dissociative identity disorder. The court decision was the first of its kind and remains controversial to this day. Netflix previously released a docuseries exploring Milligan’s life,After being found not guilty, Milligan was institutionalized in state-run psychiatric hospitals for several years. On July 4, 1986, he escaped from Central Ohio Psychiatric Hospital and relocated to Bellingham, Wash.
Milligan was ultimately discharged from the hospital in 1988 after psychiatrists concluded that his many personalities had fused into one harmless one as a result of therapy and he was no longer a danger to society, He subsequently underwent outpatient mental treatment before being released from all state supervision in August 1991.More Must-Reads From TIME
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