When Dr. Box returned from Australia, she learned that her contract would not be renewed by the Department of Mental Health. “I was squeezed out,” she told me.

The Columbus Dispatch reported the story on January 17, 1982:

MILLIGANS PSYCHIATRIST QUITS STATE JOB

Dr. Judyth M. Box, psychiatrist of convicted [sic] multiple personality rapist William S. Milligan, has resigned her state job in a dispute with officials at the Central Ohio Forensic Hospital.

State Rep. Don E. Gilmore, R-Columbus, lauded the resignation …>

The Teacher fragmented.

Milligan’s new therapist, Dr. John (“Jay”) Davis, a young, exNavy psychiatrist, was skeptical when he took over the case, but he found himself drawn into a study of Milligan’s background. He won the confidence of most of the personalities and was able to work with them.

On February 12th, Kathy discovered her sister-in-laws clothing and possessions were missing, and Billy’s car was gone. Tanda had left a note addressed to “Billy” saying she had taken all his money out of their joint bank account, but that she would pay it back some day. The note also said she knew it was wrong to steal away in the night, but she couldn’t handle the pressure from all sides.

“I was in love, and I was gullible,” Allen told me. “I felt broken. For a while I felt cold. Then I told myself I have to get over her and forget what she did to me. I have no right to judge all women by Tanda just as I have no right to judge all men by Daddy Chal.”

Dr. Jay Davis was impressed by the way his patient handled the news. Although the personalities felt cheated and betrayed, they took it quite well.

On March 26, 1982, the commitment hearing was held in Judge Flowers’ court to determine if Milligan was dangerous to himself or others, or if he could now be transferred to a minimum security hospital like the Athens Mental Health Center. The testimony of the psychiatrists and psychologists! was contradictory.

The position of the prosecutor s office had been made cleai in an interview given by the assistant Franklin County prosecutor, Thomas D. Beal, to a reporter of the Columbus Citizen-Journal, published on January 14: “I’m kind of hopingthere is [evidence Milligan is violent] so we can have more ammunition to keep him in a maximum security facility.”

At the hearing, Dr. Mijo Zakman, clinical director of COPH, testified that he and two other psychiatrists had examined Milligan for about two hours, in preparation for the hearing, and reported they saw no personalities. Milligan, he said, was not mentally ill at all but was an antisocial personality.

This was a startling and threatening development. If the Department of Mental Health could convince Judge Flowers that Milligan was not mentally ill, he could be discharged from the hospital, be picked up immediately by the Ohio Adult Parole Authority, and sent to prison as a parole violator.

But Dr. Jay Davis testified, “He’s at the baseline level … He is fragmented. I could name the personality sitting there right now, and its not Billy.”