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Billy Milligan Passes Away

Los Angeles Times

Billy Milligan, believed to be the first person to use multiple personality disorder in an insanity defense, has died at a Columbus hospital at the age of 59. In 1978, Milligan was acquitted of three rapes near Ohio State University. Psychologists said he had two dozen personalities that fused into a harmless one after therapy. He was released from a hospital in 1988 and continued undergoing treatment.  Milligan eventually moved to California, where he was accused of threatening a judge and went through bankruptcy, before returning to Ohio 5 years ago.

Jim has been with WCBE since 1996. Before that he worked as a reporter at another Columbus radio station, and for three newspapers in Southwest Florida.