The Minds of Billy Milligan - Daniel Keyes
Category: Novel
Tags: Novel, True Crime, Adults
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 bodya 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 personalitythe first such court decision in historybringing to public light the most remarkable and harrowing case of multiple personality ever recorded., Twenty-four people live inside Billy Milligan., Philip, a petty criminal; Kevin, who dealt drugs and masterminded a drugstore robbery; April, whose only ambition was to kill Billys stepfather; Adalana, the shy, lonely, affection-starved lesbian who used Billys 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, and the teacher, the only one who can put
