COLUMBUS, Ohio (UPI) -- Police say William Milligan, 23, raped four young women near Ohio State University last year.
Psychiatrists say the rapist was one of Milligan's 10 different personalities that of an 18-year-old lesbian.
Armed with samples of the wildly varying handwriting and drawings of the 10 separate William Milligans, defense attorneys Friday will try to persuade Jay C. Flowers, Franklin County Common Pleas Court judge, that their client is incompetent to stand trial for the crimes of his subconscious bodymates.
He is charged with four counts of rape, three counts of kidnapping and three of aggravated robbery.
One of the nation's top authorities on multiple personalities, Cornelia Wilbur of Lexington, Ky., says she met five of Milligan's personalities when she examined him in the county detention center.
Dr. Wilbur is the psychiatrist who treated "Sybil," a multi-personality housewife and the subject of a best-selling book and a movie.
Dr. Wilbur said she is convinced that Milligan could not fake the complicated and interwined memories and stories of the 10 personalities.
In a telephone Interview, she said one of them is a three-year-old girl who draws pictures of butterflies. Another is a nine-year-old boy who does nothing but scream and bang his head against the wall, remembering the beatings Milli gan took from his stepfather as a child.
Arthur, a poet with a clipped British accent, is a good influence. Ragen, 22, is evil. Danny is 14. Each has separate Ideas and memories and a separate IQ.
"If they are not integrated," Dr. Wilbur said, when asked if Milligan could be tried, "I don't know who you're going to try."
She said Ragen has vowed to kill the lesbian -- thus killing himself and Milligan -- if she is brought to trial.
"The real tragedy is this young man," Dr. Wilbur said. "Billy is extremely bright. He has an IQ of 150 and is a very talented artist."
During one interview with Milligan, she said she asked Ragen to let Billy come out. Ragen said he and Arthur were keeping Billy asleep because he was so suicidal.
"But they let him out for a minute," she said. "And I have never seen a human being so frightened in my life.
"His (Milligan's) problem is definitely curable. It takes time, however. He has 10 separate problems. They must be gradually handled and solved and brought to the conscious level."
A series of drawings by Milligan will be submitted at the Friday hearing.
One of them, by Milligan's three-year-old personality, is labeled "Why do I got to stay in a cage and can't go out and play." It shows a child with open arms, a table with flowers and a butterfly.
