Chilling new Netflix true crime series focuses on rape suspect diagnosed with 24 different personalities

Netflix’s latest true crime documentary offering will be delving into the chilling crimes of Billy Milligan, a rape suspect with an alleged identity disorder.

In 1977, Milligan was arrested and charged for a string of rapes that took place at Ohio State University. However, while all the evidence pointed at him, he repeatedly claimed to have no memory of the attacks and officers noticed his behaviour becoming increasingly strange. 

Milligan was later diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder – known back then as multiple personality disorder – with doctors determining that he had at least twenty-four distinct ‘multiples’ in his mind.

This diagnosis would eventually result in Milligan being found not guilty by reasons of insanity and, instead of spending life behind bars, he was sent to a series of psychiatric hospitals for ten years.

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However, despite the non-guilty verdict, interest surrounding his case and his alleged innocence has remained rife, even after his death in 2014 – so what better excuse for Netflix to do their thing and produce an in-depth true crime series on the matter?

Monsters Inside: The 24 Faces of Billy Milligan will be investigating the heinous crimes committed by Milligan using interviews with the Milligan family, friends, doctors, and law enforcement professionals who had handled his case at the time. 

It will also be delving into why there were many people who believed Milligan was in fact guilty and, instead of genuinely suffering from dissociative identity disorder, he was simply a narcissistic sociopath capable of faking his multiple personalities.

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The documentary’s synopsis reads: “In the late 1970s, an accused serial rapist claims multiple personalities control his behaviour, setting off a legal odyssey that captivates America.”

The six-part series, directed by Olivier Megaton, will be available to watch on Wednesday, September 22nd.

But this isn’t the only Netflix true crime series causing a stir online – the recently released Memories of a Murderer: The Nilsen Tapes offers a deeper look into the mind of the calculated killer and necrophile, Denis Nilsen, who confessed to brutally murdering fifteen young men and boys between 1978 and 1983.