Billy Milligan, The Serial Rapist Who Claimed That His ‘Other Personalities’ Committed His Crimes
Billy Milligan, The Serial Rapist Who Claimed That His ‘Other Personalities’ Committed His Crimes In 1978, Billy Milligan became the first person to successfully use multiple personality disorder as a legal defense, though the debate surrounding his condition turned the case into a hotly-debated spectacle. Both the 2016 film "Split" and 2023's "The Crowded Room" tackle the same disturbing subject, a chilling criminal with many personalities, each more twisted than the last. And both were inspired by the same real-life predator: Billy Milligan. Known as the "Campus Rapist," Milligan raped three young women at Ohio State in 1977 before police caught him. Psychiatric evaluations then suggested that Milligan had multiple personalities and that two of them had committed the crimes without the others knowing. Milligan claimed to be totally unaware of what his other personalities were doing, at one point saying: "Every time I come to, I'm in some ...