“No, Danny. Chalmer isn’t going to be here. You may have to be in a room by yourself. You left the hospital. You busted out and you left, and now we’ve got to do this to you.”

He sobbed, “Would you ask them to let me up?”

“You can let go of him,” she told the men.

The officers hesitated, not knowing what to expect.

“He’ll be all right,” Gillott said. “He’ll go with me. Won’t you, Danny?”

“Yes.”

She led him to Ward 5, into the seclusion room, staying to take his personal effects. He wouldn’t give her his necklace with an arrowhead on it.

“Better empty your pockets now. Give me your wallet so I can put it away. ” She saw he was carrying a lot of money.

One of the Ward 5 attendants, impatient to shut Milligan in, shouted, “Come on outta there, Katherine, or I’ll lock you in with him.”

She understood that they were scared of the boy.

A short while after she returned to AIT, a nurse called to say something was going on with Milligan in the seclusion room. He had put his mattress over the observation window, preventing the staff from looking in, and they were afraid to unlock the door to see what he was doing. Would she come down again?

She took a male attendant with her—someone Billy knew— and called through the seclusion-room door: “This is Katherine. I’m coming in to check on you. Don’t be afraid.”

They went in. Billy was making a gurgling, choking sound. The arrowhead was gone from his necklace; the chain lay broken on the floor.

Dr. Sammi Michaels ordered Billy transferred to a room with a bed, but when the staff went in to get him, he fought. It took several men to move him.

Mrs. Gillott stayed with him in the new room. She gave Billy several cups of water, and in a few minutes he spit out the arrowhead. The nurse gave him an injection, and Gillott talked with him for a while longer, assuring him she’d be back, telling him to get some rest. Then she went back to her ward, thinking about how very frightened he was.

The following morning, when Wanda, Pat Perry and Mike Rupe came on duty, they learned that Billy and Holston had been taken to Ward 5. Though Rupe, now on the morning shift, wanted to visit Billy, word was sent up by Ward 5 that the staff of AIT was not to visit him. He was theirs now.

When Billy’s sister, Kathy, called, she was told there had been trouble and that Billy had been placed on the male maximum-security ward. Billy would not be allowed to leave to attend her wedding the next day.

The story was leaked to the newspapers, and the following appeared in the Columbus Citizen-Journal on October 3, 1979:

Milligan Financed Rum Party, Patrol Will Reveal—Stinziano By Eric Rosenman

William S. Milligan, the alleged multiple personality rapist, was one of four patients who engaged in a “rum and Coke party” on the grounds of the Athens Mental Health Center last week, a state legislator claimed Wednesday.

Rep. Mike Stinziano of Columbus said a secret Ohio Highway Patrol investigation will conclude Milligan provided two women patients with money to buy rum and then the women, Milligan and a second male patient held a “rum and Coke” party….

The representative said the story indicates that “there appears to be little control over activities at the center.”

“As I understand it, the report will not be able to prove the women were raped,” Stinziano said Wednesday. “But it will say the two women were given money by Milligan to buy liquor, went off the grounds to make the purchase and then returned with rum …”

Last Friday, Lt. Richard Wilcox, head of the patrol’s investigation section, said tests to determine whether the women had been raped or had been intoxicated were incomplete and would not be made public until the investigation was over.

Stinziano said he was certain of his sources who supplied the tale of the party.