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“My name is Legion, because we are many” ((Mark 5:8-9)) A phrase that fully reflects the essence of the human psyche at the moment of its formation. Depending on the social environment in which we find ourselves, there are “several” of us. The personality that will become us will only be established at the age of 24. But what happens if the formation is not completed as planned? Moral shocks in our lives will lead to irreversible consequences, for example, congenital phobias or even more serious injuries. Children who are victims of violence are more susceptible to dissociative identity disorder than others. Among these children was William Milligan. This case will be discussed today. The book about Billy, “The Mysterious Story of Billy Milligan,” was written by the American writer and philologist Daniel Keyes, who gained worldwide fame after the publication of the novel “Flowers for Algernon.” As before, Keyes conveys a poignant and scientific theme in an artistic style, worked out to the smallest detail, achieved through painstaking work. The novel consists of three parts: confusing times, becoming a teacher, beyond madness. Over the course of three parts, covering 600 printed pages, Daniel will not let the reader relax and will keep him in suspense until the last page, demonstrating human society’s fear of the new and unknown. "Tangled Times" covers events from the time Billy was arrested on suspicion of rape until he was admitted to an asylum in Athens. We also learn about 10 personalities locked in one body. Let me explain that everyone except one person knew that they were part of Billy, and yet they were seriously offended when they were not accepted as subjects. In Confused Times, Keys will introduce each of them. He will tell you what responsibilities are assigned to whom. The first chapter will also demonstrate the work of psychologists and lawyers, their battle for the health and rights of a poor guy with a difficult fate. At the end of the chapter, one of Billy’s “roommates” will give the attending physician a list, which will contain a list of 23 names, and in the 24th position there will be an inscription “teacher”. "Becoming a Teacher" in this chapter The teacher will tell Billy's story in order and answer the questions that arose after reading the first part of the book. Who is he, why each personality appeared, and how to make Billy a normal person again. The boy was supposed to become a teacher, growing up, gaining experience and new information, however, violence and bullying from his stepfather served as an obstacle to this. Psychologists have to put a person back together piece by piece into a single personality so that he can live normally among other people. “Beyond Madness” - this part is filled with pain more than others. It tells what will happen to Billy when the story comes to light thanks to the hypocritical and greedy press. The newspapers will destroy his psychological state with headlines and articles about the rapist who remains free. The exorbitant work of doctors and lawyers will be lost, and we will have to start over again, because Billy will “fall apart” again. However, his stay in the public clinic in Lima will be a terrible test for him; the transfer to it happened due to the unrest of local residents caused by information coming from the media. We are transported to a hospital in Lima, where a stun gun is used as a means of subduing patients. You will witness the trial, watching Billy survive in the darkest part of the night, hoping for a quick dawn. Paraphrase about the film adaptation. The role of Billy will be played by Leonardo DiCaprio. I can’t imagine him in this role due to his age and physique. Matthew McConaughey would be suitable for the role of Billy, I realized this after his role in “True Detective”, where he played a thin and “beaten by life” detective. Jared Leto could also try acting; in his acting career he had to play a variety of roles: from drug addicts to transsexuals. And I haven't forgotten James McAvoy's recent role, as he did a good job as a schizophrenic in Split. This is definitely hard work for any actor, even those with extensive acting experience, and as a fan of the Billy story, I wouldn't want to see a second-rate performance. Don't forget, Milligan's war is just ahead.

Two books. Hundreds of articles, dozens of documentaries. 20 years of waiting for DiCaprio himself to bring his image to life on screen. The unreal fate of a real person. Billy Milligan. A person diagnosed with multiple personalities. A unique child, born to be a great artist, with a sensitive heart, a fair and kind character. But the terrible and sophisticated violence of the stepfather split this whole world into 24 individuals. 24 people of different nationalities, gender and age, mental and physical abilities, stood up for the baby’s defense, appearing to the world at certain moments. Several suicide attempts, ten years of hell in psychiatric hospitals. The only thing that gave him strength was the desire to tell the world about people like him and participation in the fight against child abuse. The world saw him as a beast, endless trials tried to keep him behind bars. And he gained freedom and forgave everyone, even the most terrible person in his life.

Natalia

Me and the people inside me

Each of us constantly has one voice in our heads that is similar to ours, but imagine when there is more than one voice? And when were these voices different and belonged to people? I spent the whole book condoling with Billy’s relatives and his “family.” We are used to the fact that when we read books, the lines float away and we see pictures and images created by the author. I caught myself thinking that I see different people in the image of Billy, that is, it’s not Billy – but one of his personalities, if it’s Allana, it’s a girl, fragile, beautiful, romantic; if Christy is a little girl, blond and so on. And only when I look up from the book do I think that this is a guy. What is most striking is the realization that this story happened in reality and with a real person. Somewhere there was a Billy Milligan in need of help. The worst thing is that few people could help him. The family was turned away from him: a brother pursuing a military career; a sister living her own life and a mother looking for love. Throughout the entire book, only the mother and sister are trying to somehow help Billy, none of them noticed a change in their brother/son. When a society lives in your head and it is undesirable, each person has a lot of negative qualities: smoking, drug use, alcoholism . Each of the personalities does not appear immediately and gradually reflects the qualities necessary for Billy; or traits taken from the movies, like Arthur, who appeared thanks to Sherlock Holmes. Blaming the family for all the troubles is pointless, none of them are to blame for what happened to Billy, except probably the mother, but even then she acted according to the situation. If you stand in her place, you can understand. Three children growing up without a father, and it’s very difficult to raise children yourself. As soon as Chermer Milligan appears in Billy's life, there are more personalities. What is most striking is society, or rather the press, which never knew Billy as a person and did not try to find out, cover the real story and somehow whiten the young man's reputation. But everyone works for their own salary and it’s easier to throw mud at a person.

Lovejoy

Angelica

Life is like fiction

The story of one person. The story of a disease. Dissociative identity disorder. The man with the most multiple disorders in medicine - 24 personalities, was acquitted in a rape case due to his severe and rare disease. Little 5-year-old Billy at that time already had personalities - 3-year-old Christine, who stood behind Billy in the corner, and David, a deaf-mute boy who was often scolded for his misdeeds. After his stepfather abused an 8-year-old child, Billy’s consciousness split completely, and every year more and more sides of him began to appear. The first and key personalities are the intellectual Arthur, the “keeper of rage” Ragen, the quirky cynic Allen, the technician Tommy, the “keeper of pain” Denny , musician Christopher and baby Christine. There were also negative personalities, because of which Billy was accused of crimes, among whom was the thief and swindler Philip and the lesbian Adalana, who rapes women. And how I would like to retell all the main events, but I am forced to write briefly. 23-year-old Billy Milligan was taken into custody in early 1978 on charges of triple rape on the campus of Athens, Ohio. Lawyer Gary Schweikart got Billy transferred to the Athens Clinic, where Dr. Caul spent several months trying to study all aspects of Billy's disorder and unite all of his personalities, which revealed to him a new and complete identity of Billy Milligan - the Teacher who kept the memories of everyone else and is the 24th personality. It turned out that at the age of 16, Billy wanted to jump off the roof, but Ragen stopped him, and he and Arthur “euthanized” the young man for 6 years. During his sleep, the rest of the personalities were partying and having fun or pumping up each of their hobbies. But Billy was arrested for complicity in the robbery of a pharmacy, and then for the rape of three women who testified against him. Billy was partially acquitted, but even while on treatment, had to serve time for theft of property. So, he was assigned to a high-security prison in the city of Lima, where he had to survive every day. Of course, without knowing all the details and details from Milligan’s life, many will be biased, but this book should be read in order to have an idea about such people, difficult cases and the desire to get out of the abyss in which this unfortunate man lived for many years with his illness. Daniel Keyes personally interviewed and met with Billy and until his last days he kept in touch with the man whom he sincerely felt sorry for. This is an extraordinary example of humanity and compassion, as well as an experience of confronting a little-studied area of the mental state of people subjected to violence and its devastating consequences. After reading, I was somewhat delighted with the book, the author, the emotions experienced, certainly a book worthy of attention, but this is not an artistic plot to criticize, but real life that does not need a storyboard.

Angelica

Daniel Keyes wrote the book "The Mysterious Case of Billy Milligan" based on a real story, you can call the book a biography. I can't say that I liked the work. The plot is interesting, but I did not like the manner of presentation. The main character did not evoke sympathy or pity. But this work causes controversy; some will believe that the hero is sick, others will not. It seemed to me that Billy was a manipulator trying to avoid punishment. I was never able to fully believe in splitting into many personalities. The feeling that the hero was “leading everyone by the nose” haunted me throughout the entire book. The only thing that raised doubts was how can you change so many masks and never get confused in them? When I imagined how these role changes might look in reality, I was horrified. I think no one except a psychiatrist would want to watch such a spectacle. It’s also difficult to believe in Billy’s veracity because: “His entire childhood was spent in a constant struggle: to make up stories, adjust facts, invent some explanations with the sole purpose of hiding from everyone that most of the time he doesn’t remember...” (c) . He is a liar and very good at dodging things. Perhaps the roots of Billy's problems should be sought in childhood. As I read, I kept getting confused about Billy’s personalities; the brief description given by the author at the beginning really helped me figure it out. There are “Epilogue”, “Afterword” and “Author’s Notes” in the book, they reveal some secrets. There is something about mood, and about personalities, and about the Place of Dying. I don’t agree with those who claim that the work is similar to “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” these stories are completely different. The justice system did not surprise me, and I understand and accept the desire to protect many by isolating one. It seemed interesting that the hero is judged as “exceptional”, he does not protest and does not demand the same treatment as the norm, and when it comes to receiving “benefits”, he wants to be like everyone else. The title “Crime and Punishment” would be appropriate for this book, because there is a crime, there is guilt, and there is evasion of punishment. The ending is logical. In general, Billy’s story didn’t grab me, even the fact that it was a true biography didn’t add any interest. However, it seems to me that this work is worth reading in order to form your own opinion about it.

Don’t read the introductory words, acknowledgments, or preface at the beginning of the book—open the first chapter right away. Knowing what the book “The Mysterious Case of Billy Milligan” (previously published under the title “The Multiple Minds of Billy Milligan”) is about, how it came about, will prevent you from perceiving this novel as a work of fiction, but rather it will be read as “notes of a madman” as retold by the writer, psychiatrists and lawyers. And the key word “mysterious” will lose all meaning.

Traces of three crimes with robberies and rapes lead the police to the house of Billy Milligan, who completely does not understand why he is being arrested. During the investigation and numerous examinations and consultations with leading psychiatrists, Milligan was diagnosed with multiple personality disorder, and the court verdict was compulsory treatment in order to combine all personalities into one and help the accused appear before the court sane and capable of answering for his actions.

“Returning to Athens, Dr. Caul once again carefully thought about everything he had seen and heard at this meeting - and suddenly realized that almost everyone gathered there, including prosecutor Yavich, had no doubt that Milligan was a multiple personality. And that if everything happened as they had just discussed, Milligan would become the first person with such a diagnosis to be declared innocent of such serious crimes. And that this discussion was a harbinger of a new step in the history of jurisprudence and psychiatry, which will be taken next Monday.

At the time of transfer to a psychiatric hospital, 10 of Milligan’s personalities were known, but those around him had no idea about the rest, the “undesirables.” Ragen is the keeper of hatred of Slavic origin, protecting children and women, David is an empath and keeper of pain, Arthur is an intellectual, scientist, organizer, originally from England, Allen is a born speaker and negotiator, Tommy is a jack of all trades, Danny is a scared boy. And Teacher. They all live in Billy’s head, replacing each other and communicating with each other. The change of roles is immediate: now Billy is left-handed, now right-handed; now an American, now an Englishman, now a Yugoslav; either a frightened kid or a criminal drug addict. Who is he, William Stanley Milligan, a man with a rare disease or a brilliant actor?

“And then he was on the other side.
Milligan clasped his hands, then stretched them out in front of him and looked. Now he understood why he had not achieved complete fusion earlier. He didn't know about everyone. And now all the people he created have returned to him, as well as all their actions, thoughts and memories - from early childhood to the present. Both successful and unsuccessful - undesirables whom Arthur tried to control and then hide their existence, but in vain. Now Billy knew everything about his life: all the absurdity, all the tragedies, all the remaining unsolved crimes. And also that when he thinks about something, remembers something, tells the writer, the other twenty-three people will also hear it and learn the story of their life. After this, there will be no more amnesia, and they will all become different. And that made me sad. It's like he lost something."

The author of about a third of the book simply records and presents the facts of the high-profile case of Billy Milligan, processing them and giving them literary form, but there was no room for imagination. Creativity and fiction became more accessible at the level of memories of Billy's childhood.

For each situation that traumatized the psyche, there were different personalities. A jar of cookies breaks, fear of punishment - Sean, a deaf, innocent boy who does not hear the screams of his mother and stepfather, enters the arena (into the spot). And three-year-old “Christine was the child who was put in the corner.” In general, the whole story comes from childhood. Domestic violence and the mother's inner deafness and blindness to the suffering of her children became the reasons for the collapse of Milligan's personality.

“On this subject, Dr. Harding’s report stated: “According to the patient ... he himself has experienced sadistic and sexual abuse, including anal penetration. According to his testimony, it began at the age of eight or nine years and lasted about a year, usually on the farm, where he was left alone with his stepfather. In addition, he was afraid that his adoptive father would kill him, since he threatened to “bury him in the barn and tell his mother that he ran away.”
...and at that moment his consciousness, emotions and soul split into twenty-four parts.”

The novel is not only “about the Billy Milligan case,” which provokes debate on belief or disbelief: is he a criminal or a victim. We were given a glimpse into the unknown and unexplored, beyond the boundaries of the studied facts about human capabilities. And they poked their noses in, demonstrating how immature and imperfect society is.

A world without pain is a world without feelings... but a world without feelings is a world without pain.

“He had already begun to believe that all these individuals - the Teacher agreed that this term was better than “people” - were part of himself. And suddenly, for the first time and without switching, he felt like them. So, this is it – a real merger. He became the common denominator of all twenty-four personalities, and this made him not Robin Hood or Superman, but a completely ordinary angry, nervous, intelligent and talented manipulator."

As a literary phenomenon, I recommend the book; Milligan’s personality and story are attractive, but the artistic value of such literature is very doubtful for me personally. Recently, a new book by Daniel Keyes, “The Fifth Sally,” was published in Russian; at the same time, his cult novel “Flowers for Algernon”, which had disappeared from the shelves, was reprinted. The Fifth Sally was written two years before The Mysterious Case of Billy Milligan, introducing the theme of multiple personalities.

Dedicated to everyone who suffered abuse as a child, especially those who are forced to hide afterwards...

THE MINDS OF BILLY MILLIGAN

Acknowledgments

In addition to hundreds of meetings and conversations with William Stanley Milligan himself, this book draws on conversations with sixty-two people with whom he crossed paths in life. And although many appear in the story under their own names, I would like to specifically thank them for their assistance.

I also say “thank you” to everyone listed below - these people helped me a lot in conducting the investigation, thanks to them the idea was born, this book was written and published.

They are Dr. David Kohl, director of the Athens Mental Health Center, Dr. George Harding Jr., director of Harding Hospital, Dr. Cornelia Wilbur, public defenders Gary Schweickart and Judy Stevenson, attorneys L. Alan Goldsberry and Steve Thompson, Dorothy Moore and Del Moore, mother and Milligan's current stepfather, Kathy Morrison, Milligan's sister, as well as Milligan's close friend Mary.

In addition, I thank the following agencies: Athens Mental Health Center, Harding Hospital (especially Ellie Jones from Public Affairs), Ohio State University Police Department, Ohio State Attorney's Office, Columbus Police Department, Lancaster Police Department.

I also want to express my gratitude and respect to two Ohio State University rape victims (who appear in the book under the pseudonyms Carrie Draher and Donna West) for agreeing to provide detailed accounts of their experiences of the events.

I would like to thank my agent and lawyer, Donald Engel, for his confidence and support in getting this project off the ground, as well as my editor, Peter Geathers, whose undying enthusiasm and critical eye helped me organize the material I collected.

Many people agreed to help me, but there were also those who chose not to talk to me, so I would like to explain where I got some information from.

Comments, quotes, reflections and ideas from Dr. Harold T. Brown of Fairfield Mental Hospital, who treated Milligan when he was fifteen years old, are gleaned from his medical notes. Milligan himself clearly remembered meetings with Dorothy Turner and Dr. Stella Carolin of the Southwest Mental Health Center, who first discovered and diagnosed him with multiple personality disorder. The descriptions are supplemented by sworn testimony from them, as well as testimony from other psychiatrists and lawyers with whom they communicated at the time.

Chalmer Milligan, William's adoptive father (referred to as "stepfather" during the trial and in the media), refused to discuss the allegations against him or my offer to tell his own version of events. He wrote to newspapers and magazines and gave interviews where he denied William’s statements that he allegedly “threatened, tortured, raped” his stepson. Therefore, the alleged behavior of Chalmer Milligan is reconstructed from court records, supported by affidavits from relatives and neighbors, as well as from on-the-record interviews I conducted with his daughter Chella, his adopted daughter Kathy, his adopted son Jim, his ex-wife Dorothy and, of course, with William Milligan himself.

My daughters Hilary and Leslie deserve special recognition and gratitude for their help and understanding during those difficult days when I was collecting this material, as well as my wife Aurea, who, in addition to the usual editing, listened to and systematized several hundred hours of taped interviews , which allowed me to quickly navigate through them and double-check the information if necessary. Without her help and enthusiasm, the book would have taken many more years to complete.

Preface

The book is a fact-based account of William Stanley Milligan's life to date. For the first time in US history, this man was found not guilty of committing serious crimes due to the presence of a mental illness, namely multiple personality disorder.

Unlike other cases in the psychiatric and fictional literature of patients with dissociative identity disorder, whose anonymity was ensured from the outset by fictitious names, Milligan, from the moment of his arrest and indictment, acquired the status of a publicly known controversial figure. His portraits were printed on the covers of newspapers and magazines. The results of his psychiatric examination were reported on the evening news on television and in newspapers around the world. In addition, Milligan became the first person with such a diagnosis who was closely monitored around the clock in a hospital setting, and the results indicating multiple personality were confirmed under oath by four psychiatrists and a psychologist.

I first met twenty-three-year-old Milligan at the Mental Health Center in Athens, Ohio, shortly after he was sent there by court order. When he asked me to talk about his life, I replied that my decision would depend on whether he had anything to add to the numerous media reports. Billy assured me that the most important secrets of the personalities inhabiting him were still unknown to anyone, not even to the lawyers and psychiatrists who worked with him. Milligan wanted to explain to the world the essence of his disease. I was skeptical about it, but at the same time interested.

My curiosity was heightened even more a few days after we met thanks to the last paragraph of a Newsweek article called “The Ten Faces of Billy”:

“However, some questions remain unanswered: where did Tommy (one of his personalities) learn an escape skill that rivals Houdini himself? Why did he call himself a “guerrilla” and a “gangster” in conversations with rape victims? According to doctors, Milligan may have other personalities that we do not yet have any idea about, and perhaps some of them committed crimes that have not yet been solved.”

Talking to him alone during office hours at a psychiatric clinic, I saw that Billy, as everyone called him at that time, was very different from the level-headed young man with whom I spoke the first time we met. During the conversation, Billy stammered and nervously twitched his knees. His memories were scanty, interrupted by long gaps of amnesia. He was only able to utter a few general words about those episodes from the past about which he remembered at least something - vaguely, without details, and while talking about painful situations his voice trembled. After trying in vain to get something out of him, I was ready to give up.

But one day something strange began. Billy Milligan became fully integrated for the first time, and before me stood a different man, a fusion of all his personalities. The combined Milligan clearly and almost completely remembered all of his personalities from the moment they appeared - all their thoughts, actions, relationships, difficult experiences and funny adventures.

I say this up front so that the reader understands how I have recorded Milligan's past events, feelings and intimate conversations. All the material for the book is provided by Billy's moments of integration, his personalities and the sixty-two people with whom he interacted at various stages of life. Events and dialogues are recreated from Milligan's memory. Therapeutic sessions were recorded from videotapes. I didn't come up with anything myself.

When I started writing, one of the big challenges was chronology. Since childhood, Milligan often had “time out”; he rarely looked at clocks or calendars, and he often had to awkwardly admit that he did not know what day of the week or even what month it was. I was eventually able to reconstruct the sequence of events based on bills, receipts, insurance reports, school records, work records, and numerous other documents provided to me by his mother, sister, employers, lawyers, and doctors. Milligan rarely dated his correspondence, but his ex-girlfriend still had hundreds of his letters from the two years he was in prison, with numbers on the envelopes.

Dedicated to everyone who suffered abuse as a child, especially those who are forced to hide afterwards...

THE MINDS OF BILLY MILLIGAN

Copyright © 1981 by Daniel Keyes

© Fedorova Yu., translation into Russian, 2014

© Edition in Russian, design. Eksmo Publishing House LLC, 2014

© Electronic version of the book prepared by liters, 2014

Acknowledgments

I also say “thank you” to everyone listed below - these people helped me a lot in conducting the investigation, thanks to them the idea was born, this book was written and published.

Many people agreed to help me, but there were also those who chose not to talk to me, so I would like to explain where I got some information from.

He wrote to newspapers and magazines and gave interviews where he denied William’s statements that he allegedly “threatened, tortured, raped” his stepson. Therefore, the alleged behavior of Chalmer Milligan is reconstructed from court records, supported by affidavits from relatives and neighbors, as well as from on-the-record interviews I conducted with his daughter Chella, his adopted daughter Kathy, his adopted son Jim, his ex-wife Dorothy and, of course, with William Milligan himself.

Preface

My curiosity was heightened even more a few days after we met thanks to the last paragraph of a Newsweek article called “The Ten Faces of Billy”:

As we worked, Milligan and I agreed on two basic rules.

First, all people, places and organizations are listed under their real names, with the exception of three groups of people who needed to be protected by pseudonyms: these are other patients in psychiatric hospitals; criminals with whom Milligan had relationships both as a teenager and as an adult, against whom charges have not yet been brought and with whom I have not been able to interview personally; and three rape victims from Ohio State University, including two who agreed to speak with me.

Secondly, to assure Milligan that no new charges would be brought against him in the event that any of his individuals recalled crimes that might still be charged against him, he gave me "poetic license" in describing these events. On the other hand, those crimes for which Milligan has already been convicted are provided with details that no one knew about before.

Most of the people Billy Milligan met, worked with, or even became his victim eventually accepted the diagnosis of multiple personality. Many recalled some of his actions or words that forced them to admit: “He was clearly not pretending.” But others continue to consider him a fraud, a brilliant deceiver who declared his insanity only to avoid prison. I tried to talk with as many representatives of both groups as possible - with everyone who agreed to do so. They told me what they thought and why.

I was also skeptical about his diagnosis. Almost every day I was inclined either to one point of view or to the opposite. But I worked on this book with Milligan for two years, and my doubts about his recollections of his own actions and experiences, which seemed simply incredible, gave way to firm confidence as my research confirmed their accuracy.

But the controversy still occupies Ohio newspapermen. This can be seen, for example, from an article published in the Dayton Daily News on January 2, 1981, three months after the last crime was committed:

“FRAUDDER OR VICTIM?

We will shed some light on the Milligan case anyway.

Joe Fenley

William Stanley Milligan is an unhealthy man leading an unhealthy life.

He is either a deceiver who fooled the public and got away with terrible crimes, or a real victim of a disease such as multiple personality disorder. In any case, everything is bad...

And only time will tell whether Milligan has left the whole world a fool or become one of its most pathetic victims..."

Perhaps that time has come.

Athens, Ohio

Book one
Inner people

Ten

During the trial, only these individuals were known to psychiatrists, lawyers, police and reporters.

1. William Stanley Milligan ("Billy") 26 years old. The primary personality or core, which was later called "disconnected Billy", or "Billy-R". Didn't finish school. 183 cm, 86 kg 1
The American system of measures is converted into metric in the book. – Note here and below. translator.

Blue eyes, brown hair.

2. Arthur, 22 years old. Englishman. Rational, emotionless, speaks with a British accent. I learned physics and chemistry from books. Reads and writes Arabic fluently. He firmly adheres to conservative views and considers himself a capitalist, while being an obvious atheist. The first one discovered the existence of the others, takes power over them in safe situations, decides which of the “family” will go into the spot and take over consciousness. Wears glasses.

3. Ragen Vadaskovinich, 23 years old. “Keeper of Hate”, which is also expressed in his name: it comes from the merger of the words “Rage” and “again” 2
"Rage" and "again" ( English.).

Yugoslav, speaks English with a noticeable Slavic accent, reads, writes and speaks Serbo-Croatian. A weapons and ammunition specialist, he is excellent at karate, incredibly strong because he can control adrenaline surges. Communist and atheist. His duty is to protect the family, as well as all women and children in general. Takes control of the mind in dangerous situations. He communicated with bandits and drug addicts, admits to committing crimes, sometimes violent. He weighs 95 kg, has huge hands, black hair and a long drooping mustache. Colorblind, draws black and white sketches.

4. Allen, 18 years old. Fraudster, manipulator. Usually communicates with strangers. Agnostic, adheres to the maxim “We must get everything from this life.” He plays the drums, draws portraits, and is the only person who smokes cigarettes. Close relationship with Billy's mother. He is the same height as William, but weighs less (75 kg). Parting to the right, the only right-hander.

5. Tommy, 16 years old. Masters the art of liberation from fetters. Often confused with Allen, he is generally antisocial and hostile. Plays the saxophone, paints landscapes, and is an electronics specialist. Dark brown hair, yellow-brown eyes.

6. Danny, 14 years old. Intimidated. Afraid of people, especially men. He was forced to dig his own grave and was buried alive, so he only paints landscapes. Shoulder-length blond hair, blue eyes, short, thin.

7. David, 8 years old. The pain keeper, or empath. Takes on all the pain and suffering of other individuals. Very sensitive and receptive, but quickly loses consciousness. Most of the time he doesn't understand anything. Dark brown hair with red highlights, blue eyes, petite.

8. Christine, 3 years. The so-called “child who was put in the corner,” because as a child she was the one who stood in the corner. The smart little girl, an Englishwoman, can read and write in block letters, but suffers from dyslexia. Loves to draw bright flowers and butterflies. Blue eyes and shoulder length blonde hair.

9. Christopher, 13 years old. Christine's brother. Speaks with a British accent. An obedient child, but restless. Plays the harmonica. The hair is brown, like Christine's, but the bangs are not as long.

10. Adalana, 19 years old. Lesbian. Shy and lonely, an introvert, writes poetry, cooks and runs the house for everyone else. Long sparse black hair, brown eyes with nystagmus, when describing her, they talk about “shifty eyes.”

Undesirables

These individuals were suppressed by Arthur as having undesirable traits. First discovered by Dr. David Caul of the Athens Mental Health Center.

11. Philip, 20 years old. Bandit. From New York, speaks with a strong Brooklyn accent, curses a lot. It was from the descriptions of “Phil” that police and reporters realized that Billy had more than ten personalities known to them. Committed petty crimes. Curly brown hair, brown eyes, aquiline nose.

12. Kevin, 20 years old. Strategist. A petty criminal, the author of the plan to rob Gray's pharmacy. Loves to write. Green-eyed blond.

13. Walter, 22 years old. Australian. Fancies himself a big game hunter. Excellent ability to navigate, often used for searches. Holds back emotions. Eccentric. Has a mustache.

14. April, 19 years old. Bitch. Speaks with a Boston accent. Captured by thoughts and plans of devilish revenge on Billy's stepfather. Others think she's crazy. She sews and helps with housework. Dark hair, brown eyes.

15. Samuel, 18 years old. The Eternal Jew. Orthodox Jew, the only believer. He is interested in sculpture and wood carving. Dark curly hair and brown eyes, wears a beard.

16. Mark, 16 years old. Hard worker. Lack of initiative. Doesn't do anything until others order. Performs monotonous work. If there is nothing to do, maybe just look at the wall. Sometimes he is called a "zombie".

17. Steve, 21 years old. Eternal deceiver. Makes fun of people by parodying them. A narcissist, the only one of all who never accepted the diagnosis of multiple personality. Others often get into trouble because of his mocking parody.

18. Lee, 20 years old. Comedian. A prankster, a clown, a wit, because of his pranks, the others are drawn into fights, and they end up in a “solitary” prison cell. He doesn't care about the consequences of his own actions or life in general. Dark brown hair, brown eyes.

19. Jason, 13 years old. "Pressure valve". His tantrums and fits, often resulting in punishment, serve as a way to release pent-up tension. Takes on unpleasant memories so that others can forget about what happened, thereby causing amnesia. Brown hair, brown eyes.

20. Robert (Bobby) 17 years old. Dreamer. Constantly dreams of travel and adventure. Although he dreams of doing something for the benefit of humanity, he has no ambitions or real ideas in this regard.

21. Sean, 4 years. Deaf. He quickly loses consciousness, many consider him retarded. It buzzes to feel the vibration in your head.

22. Martin, 19 years old. Snob. Cheap poser from New York. Likes to lie and boast. Wants to have without earning. Gray-eyed blond.

23. Timothy (Timmy) 15 years old. He worked in a flower shop, where he met a homosexual who began to harass him, which scared him. Gone into his own world.

Teacher

24. Teacher, 26 years old. A combination of all twenty-three selves in one person. It was he who taught them what they could do. Very smart, sensitive, with humor. As he himself says: “I am Billy twenty-three in one,” and he calls the others “androids created by me.” The teacher has an almost complete memory, and the appearance of this book became possible thanks to his appearance and help.

Confused times

Chapter one

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On Saturday, October 22, 1977, University Police Chief John Kleberg placed the Ohio State University School of Medicine grounds under heavy security. Armed police officers in cars and on foot patrolled the entire campus, even setting up armed surveillance on the rooftops. Women were warned not to walk alone and, when getting into a car, to pay attention to whether there are men nearby.

Between seven and eight in the morning, for the second time in the last eight days, a young woman was kidnapped at gunpoint on campus. The first was a twenty-five-year-old optometry student, and the second was a twenty-four-year-old nurse. They were both taken out of town, raped, forced to withdraw money from their checkbook, and robbed.

Subjective portraits compiled by the police appeared in the newspapers, and hundreds of telephone calls were received in response: people reported names, described the appearance of the criminal - and everything turned out to be useless. No serious leads or suspects emerged. Tension grew in the university community. Police Chief Kleberg found it increasingly difficult as student organizations and activist groups demanded the capture of the man Ohio newspapers and television reporters began calling the "campus rapist."

Kleberg appointed the young head of the investigative department, Eliot Boxerbaum, to be responsible for the search. The man, a self-described liberal, began working as a police officer in '70 while attending Ohio State University after the campus was forced to close due to student unrest. When Eliot graduated that same year, he was offered a job with the university police on the condition that he cut off his hair and shave his mustache. He cut his hair, but did not want to part with his mustache. But they took him despite this.

Based on identikit photographs and descriptions written by the two victims, Boxerbaum and Kleberg concluded that the crimes were committed by the same person: a white American man with brown hair, between twenty-three and twenty-seven years old and weighing between eighty and eighty-four kilograms. Both times the man was wearing a brown sports jacket, jeans and white sneakers.

Carrie Draher, the first victim, remembered gloves and a small revolver. From time to time, the rapist's pupils jumped from side to side - Carrie knew that this was a symptom of a disease called nystagmus. The man handcuffed her to the inside handle of the car door, took her out of town to some deserted place and raped her there. After which he announced: “If you go to the police, don’t describe my appearance. If I see something like that in the newspapers, I’ll send someone for you.” And to confirm the seriousness of his intentions, he wrote down several names from her notebook.

The assailant had a gun, said Donna West, a short, plump nurse. She noticed some oil stains on her hands that did not look like ordinary dirt or grease. At some point he called himself Phil. He swore a lot and dirty. She couldn't see her eyes because of her brown sunglasses. He also wrote down the names of her relatives and threatened that if she identified him, the guys from the “brotherhood” would punish her or someone close to her. Donna herself, like the police, thought that the criminal was bragging about belonging to some terrorist organization or mafia.

Kleberg and Boxerbaum were confused by only one significant difference in the two descriptions they received. The first man had a thick and neatly trimmed mustache. And the second one has only three-day stubble instead of a beard and no mustache.

Boxerbaum just smiled. "I guess he shaved it off between his first and second crimes."

On Wednesday, October 26, at 3 p.m., Detective Nikki Miller, head of the Columbus Police Department's Sex Crimes Unit, reported for second shift. She had just returned from a two-week vacation in Las Vegas, after which she looked and felt rested, her tan matching her brown eyes and golden-brown hair, cut in a short cut. Detective Gramlich, finishing his first shift, told her that he had taken a young woman, a rape victim, to University Hospital. He told his colleague the few details that he knew, since it was Nikki Miller who was to handle this case.

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Daniel Keyes
The Mysterious Story of Billy Milligan

Dedicated to everyone who suffered abuse as a child, especially those who are forced to hide afterwards...

THE MINDS OF BILLY MILLIGAN

Copyright © 1981 by Daniel Keyes

© Fedorova Yu., translation into Russian, 2014

© Edition in Russian, design. Eksmo Publishing House LLC, 2014

© Electronic version of the book prepared by liters, 2014

Acknowledgments

I also say “thank you” to everyone listed below - these people helped me a lot in conducting the investigation, thanks to them the idea was born, this book was written and published.

Many people agreed to help me, but there were also those who chose not to talk to me, so I would like to explain where I got some information from.

Preface

My curiosity was heightened even more a few days after we met thanks to the last paragraph of a Newsweek article called “The Ten Faces of Billy”:

As we worked, Milligan and I agreed on two basic rules.

“FRAUDDER OR VICTIM?

We will shed some light on the Milligan case anyway.

Joe Fenley

William Stanley Milligan is an unhealthy man leading an unhealthy life.

He is either a deceiver who fooled the public and got away with terrible crimes, or a real victim of a disease such as multiple personality disorder. In any case, everything is bad...

And only time will tell whether Milligan has left the whole world a fool or become one of its most pathetic victims..."

Perhaps that time has come.

Athens, Ohio

Book one
Inner people

Ten

During the trial, only these individuals were known to psychiatrists, lawyers, police and reporters.

Blue eyes, brown hair.

3. Ragen Vadaskovinich, 23 years old. “Keeper of Hate”, which is also expressed in his name: it comes from the merger of the words “Rage” and “again” 2
"Rage" and "again" ( English.).

Undesirables

These individuals were suppressed by Arthur as having undesirable traits. First discovered by Dr. David Caul of the Athens Mental Health Center.

12. Kevin, 20 years old. Strategist. A petty criminal, the author of the plan to rob Gray's pharmacy. Loves to write. Green-eyed blond.

13. Walter, 22 years old. Australian. Fancies himself a big game hunter. Excellent ability to navigate, often used for searches. Holds back emotions. Eccentric. Has a mustache.

15. Samuel, 18 years old. The Eternal Jew. Orthodox Jew, the only believer. He is interested in sculpture and wood carving. Dark curly hair and brown eyes, wears a beard.

21. Sean, 4 years. Deaf. He quickly loses consciousness, many consider him retarded. It buzzes to feel the vibration in your head.

22. Martin, 19 years old. Snob. Cheap poser from New York. Likes to lie and boast. Wants to have without earning. Gray-eyed blond.

23. Timothy (Timmy) 15 years old. He worked in a flower shop, where he met a homosexual who began to harass him, which scared him. Gone into his own world.

Teacher

Confused times

Chapter one

Boxerbaum just smiled. "I guess he shaved it off between his first and second crimes."

That same day, around 8 a.m., Polly Newton, a twenty-one-year-old Ohio State University student, was kidnapped near her apartment near campus. She had just managed to park her boyfriend's blue Corvette when she was immediately pushed back and ordered to drive out of town and stop in a deserted place, after which she was raped. The attacker then forced her to return to Columbus, cash two checks and drive him back to campus. Then he told me to cash another check and later cancel the payment and keep the money for myself.

While on vacation, Nikki Miller did not read anything about the “campus rapist” or see the published subjective portraits. The detectives working the first shift told her the details.

“The features of this crime,” Miller wrote in the report, “are similar to two other abductions with rape ... handled by Ohio State University police as they fall within their jurisdiction.”

Nikki Miller and her partner, Officer A. J. Bessell, went to University Hospital to speak with Polly Newton, a girl with golden brown hair.

According to Polly, the kidnapper told her that he was a "Weatherman" 3
"Weathermen"(“Forecasters”) is a left-wing militant organization that operated in the United States from 1969 to 1977. It was formed from the radical wing of the Students for a Democratic Society movement, which opposed the Vietnam War.

But, besides this, he also has “another self” - a businessman who drives a Maserati. After Polly was released from the hospital, she agreed to go with Miller and Bessel in search of the place where the criminal forced her to go. However, as it got dark, Polly became confused and agreed to try again the next morning.

The team that went to the crime scene took fingerprints from her car. Three partial prints were found, but this was sufficient for later comparison with the suspects' prints.

Miller and Bessel took Polly to the detective bureau so she could talk to the artist to draw up a subjective portrait. Miller then asked the girl to look at photographs of white rape offenders. She studied three albums with portraits, one hundred pieces in each, but to no avail. Polly gave up this activity only at ten o'clock in the evening, exhausted from seven hours of attempts to help the investigation.

The next morning at ten fifteen, detectives from the morning shift of the sex crimes unit picked up Polly Newton and headed to Delaware County. In daylight, she managed to find her way to the crime scene, where a shell casing from a nine-millimeter bullet was found on the shore of a pond. The girl told detectives that at this place her abductor shot at beer bottles, which he himself threw into the water.

By the time they returned to the station, Nikki Miller had just arrived for work. She sat Polly in a small room opposite the secretary's desk in the reception area and brought her another album with portraits of criminals. Leaving Polly alone, she closed the door.

A few minutes later, Eliot Boxerbaum brought Donna West, the second victim, to the detective bureau. He wanted her to look at the photographs too. He and Police Chief Kleberg decided to keep the student in reserve for a “live” identification in case the court did not accept the photographic identification.

Nikki Miller sat Donna West down at a table in the hallway near a closet and brought her three albums of photographic portraits. “My God,” the girl was surprised, “are there so many rapists walking the streets?” While Donna studied them one by one, Boxerbaum and Miller waited nearby. Donna leafed through the album with displeasure. She recognized one face, but it was not the man who raped her, but a former classmate whom she had recently seen on the street. On the back she read that the guy had been arrested for indecent exposure. “God knows what people are capable of,” she muttered.

About halfway through the album, Donna stopped at a portrait of a handsome young man with sideburns and a sad but intent gaze. Then she jumped so hard that the chair almost fell over. “It's him! He! Exactly!

Miller asked Donna to write her name on the back of the photo, and then found his file using the identification number and wrote down the name of the suspect: “William S. Milligan.” It turned out that this was an old portrait.

Nikki then included this photo near the end of the album, which Polly Newton had not yet looked at. Then he and Boxerbaum, a detective named Brush and Officer Bessel went to the girl’s room.

According to Nikki Miller, Polly must have guessed that they were waiting for her to identify one of the portraits in this album. The girl slowly leafed through the pages with photographs, and somewhere in the middle of the album, Miller caught herself being very tense. If Polly points to the same portrait, the "campus rapist" will be identified.

Polly paused at Milligan's photo, but soon began scrolling further. Miller felt her shoulders and arms tense. After some time, Polly returned to the young man with sideburns. “He looks very similar,” she said. “But I’m not completely sure.”

Boxerbaum also doubted whether to issue a warrant for Milligan's arrest. Donna West did not doubt her testimony, but this was a photograph taken three years ago. The investigator wanted to wait for the results of the fingerprint examination. Detective Brush went to the first floor Criminal Identification Bureau to compare Milligan's fingerprints with those found on Polly's car.

The delay angered Nikki Miller. It seemed to her that the evidence against this man was quite strong, and she wanted to detain him. But since the victim, Polly Newton, doubted her testimony, all she could do was wait. Two hours later the report arrived. The right index, ring and palm prints found on the passenger side window of the Corvette were Milligan's. Complete coincidence. This will be enough for the court.

But Boxerbaum and Kleberg still hesitated. They lacked complete confidence in apprehending the suspect, so they called in an independent expert to compare fingerprints.

Since Milligan's fingerprints matched those on the victim's car window, Nikki Miller decided to immediately pursue a case of kidnapping, robbery, and rape. Obtain an arrest warrant, detain the suspect and bring him to the station, after which Polly will be able to identify him in person.

Boxerbaum was of the opinion of his superior, Kleberg, that the university police should wait for peer review. This shouldn't have lasted longer than an hour or two. It is better to do such things for sure. At eight in the evening of the same day, the expert recognized that the prints belonged to Milligan.

“Okay, I'm filing a case for kidnapping. In fact, only this crime was committed on campus, that is, in our jurisdiction. And the rape happened in a different place,” Boxerbaum said. He studied information from the Bureau of Identification: William Stanley Milligan, 22 years old, had served a prison sentence and had been paroled six months earlier from a prison in Lebanon, Ohio. Last recorded address: 933 Spring Street, Lancaster, Ohio.

Miller called the capture team, and they arrived at her department to draw up a plan to apprehend the criminal. It was necessary to find out how many people lived with Milligan. According to two of his victims, Milligan is a terrorist and a gangster, and he fired a pistol in Polly's presence. The police were left to assume that he was armed and dangerous.

Capture team officer Craig proposed to capture the rapist with a trick: ask for an empty box at the Domino pizzeria and pretend that someone placed an order at his address, and when Milligan opens the door, Craig will try to look into the apartment. Everyone agreed.

But Boxerbaum was puzzled by the address of the criminal. Why would an ex-con drive from Lancaster to Columbus, seventy kilometers apart, three times in two weeks for the sake of rape? It seemed strange. And when the capture group was preparing to leave, the investigator dialed 411 4
In the USA and Canada - a helpline number.

And asked if William Milligan was registered at a different address. Soon he wrote down new coordinates.

“He moved to 5673 Old Livingston Avenue, Reynoldsburg. It's a ten minute drive from here. In the east. It seems more logical.”

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

At nine o'clock, Boxerbaum, Kleberg, Miller, Bessel and four other officers from the Columbus capture team in three cars were already driving along the highway at a speed of about thirty kilometers per hour, lighting the way with headlights in such a thick fog that none of them had ever seen before .

The capture group was the first to reach its destination. Instead of fifteen minutes, they drove for an hour, after which another quarter of an hour was spent finding the right house on the winding new street of the Cheninway residential complex. Until the others arrived, the officers from the seizure team spoke with some of the neighbors. The lights were on in Milligan's apartment.