The Minds of Billy Milligan
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Billy Milligan can be anyone he wants to be . . . except himself. Out of control of his actions, Billy Milligan was a man tormented by twenty-four distinct personalities battling for supremacy over his body-a battle that culminated when he awoke in jail, arrested for the kidnap and rape of three women. In a landmark trial, Billy was acquitted of his crimes by reason of insanity caused by multiple personality-the first such court decision in history-bringing to public light the most remarkable and harrowing case of multiple personality ever recorded.Twenty-four people live inside Billy MilliganPhilip, a petty criminal, Kevin, who dealt drugs and masterminded a drugstore robbery, April, whose only ambition was to kill Billy's stepfather, Adalana, the shy, lonely, affection-starved lesbian who used Billy's body in the rapes that led to his arrest, David, the eight-year-old keeper of pain , and all of the others, including men, women, several children, both boys and girls, and the...