Who is Billy Milligan?
When Billy Milligan was accused of rape, he was found not guilty due to insanity. Apparently, it was Billy’s other personalities that were committing these vicious crimes and what he needed was serious help, not jail time. However, there are other people who believe this was a cowardly way of getting away with his evil crimes.
A portrait of Billy Milligan. Source: Netflix
When this was going on back in the 1970s, mental disorders were considered taboo and not talked about. Studies of Dissociative Identity Disorder were in their infancy, and many psychologists didn’t believe that it was a real disorder. In 2021, there is much more information available about mental conditions, including DID.