393: The Campus Predator with 24 Personalities... Was Billy Milligan Criminally Insane?
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🗓️ 14 May 2026
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Summary
Following the publication of the book Sybil, the general public became fascinated with Dissociative Identity Disorder (then known as Multiple Personalities). However, nothing would capture this attention more than the case of Billy Milligan, who, after raping several women on the campus of Ohio State University, became the first person to plead insanity due to DID successfully. What followed was public scrutiny and attention, asking if he was simply faking the whole thing to avoid consequences, or if he truly had to contend with 24 distinct, unique personalities. But the story didn’t end there: there were novels published, movies in talk, and even a cross-country escape, all pointing to the question: what's the truth behind the many identities of Billy Milligan?
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Intro 0:00
An early, troubled life 7:26
Chalmer, the absolute monster 12:51
Billy's Early Run-ins With the Law 22:33
The First Trial, and First Notice 27:14
A Brief Understanding of DID 42:36
Exposing Billy's Alters 52:03
For Profit Mistakes 1:03:34
Insults to Injuries 1:15:22
The Real Truth of It 1:20:38
Billy Escapes 1:26:53
Never Held Accountable 1:38:24
Final Thoughts & Outro 1:55:54
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, what is up, everybody, and welcome back to Malhaar podcast. |
| 0:20.7 | It is me, Josh, joined not by Ian, but by Janelle. |
| 0:25.1 | Hey, I haven't sat in this seat in a while for Mile Higher. |
| 0:28.5 | I don't even, can't even recall the last time you were a co-host on the show. |
| 0:32.5 | It was a long time ago. |
| 0:34.4 | And usually I'm in that seat for SESH, so everything's just just thrown off right now all because Ian had to leave to go to Japan yeah such a such a bad move on his part I'm so jealous take advantage of his PTO and go see another country and it be fair he's visiting his brother too so. It's not just a, you know, trip for pleasure. And even if it was good for him, I'm just jealous. Yeah, we're all a little jealous at Ian's in Japan. I keep seeing all of his Instagram stories with all of his delicious foods. All of the, like, he's like going to bars with little, like, jazz musicians. |
| 1:13.0 | I'm like, this is such an Ian vibe. |
| 1:14.5 | So I'm happy for him. |
| 1:15.6 | He's living his best life. |
| 1:16.5 | He is. |
| 1:20.1 | Well, we're here stuck in the snow here in May. |
| 1:22.6 | We got a surprise snowstorm overnight. So we're just all cuddled up here inside. |
| 1:26.1 | Uh, about to deliver you a insane episode, wild. Jam-packed with |
| 1:32.3 | information. This might be one of our longest episodes we've done in a long time, but it is long, |
| 1:40.9 | but it is also very, very interesting. Fascinating, you guys. |
| 1:44.5 | Like, I don't think we've ever talked about anything close to what we're talking about today. |
| 1:49.8 | It is just mind-blowing what happens and the amount of people that are involved in this person's case and how the justice system really unfold. |
| 2:04.6 | I think there's going to be a lot of very mixed opinions on this case, particularly. |
| 2:10.6 | So we're going to be talking about the case of Billy Milligan. |
| 2:14.4 | Maybe you've heard of him, maybe you haven't. |
| 2:16.2 | There was a Netflix documentary that came out a couple years ago. It's called the 24 Faces of Billy Milligan. Maybe you've heard of him. Maybe you haven't. There was a Netflix documentary that came out a couple of years ago. It's called the 24 faces of Billy Milligan. And the thing about Billy is he has dissociative identity disorder. And what's interesting about his case is that this was in the 1970s when this was a very new new thing to psychiatrists and |
| 2:39.1 | therapy, things like that. It was kind of like something they knew about, right? They knew about, |
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