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All right.
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So this question is asking us to find an example via a search engine of a past instance in which a person committed a horrible crime was apprehended and later claimed to have dissociative identity disorder during the trial.
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What was the outcome? was the person revealed to be faking? if so, how was this determined? so i did a quick search and the first person to pop up and arguably, i guess, the most notable case of a criminal.
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Convicted but also relative to the dissociative identity disorder is billy milligan.
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And he was convicted in a time where it was so -called multiple personality disorder.
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And he was brought into court in 1978.
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So this is pretty wild back in terms of my own lifetime, because i wasn't even thought of then, on several counts of rape, aggravated robbery, and kidnapping.
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He actually got national attention because of his plea for insanity, and his best offense was that his different personalities had committed the crime instead of him.
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And i guess because of its unusual nature at the time, 1978 given, he was declared not guilty and they committed him to a psychiatric hospital.
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This is where he was diagnosed with what was then called multiple personality disorder by, let me check as i scroll through, dr...