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People found not guilty in criminal proceedings by reason of a successful insanity defense.Does not include people who were found "guilty but mentally ill" or "guilty but insane".
His lawyers pleaded insanity, claiming that two of his alternate personalities committed the crimes without Milligan being aware of it. He was the first person diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder to raise such a defense, [ 1 ] and the first acquitted of a major crime for this reason, instead spending a decade in psychiatric hospitals .
Alerted by a strong odor, a neighbor noticed two women's bodies in the garage of an abandoned home and notified police on September 2, 2004. Late in the evening of September 3, an anonymous male caller contacted 911 dispatch to claim responsibility for killing the two victims discovered the day before, and notified police where to find an additional body hidden in an alley a few blocks away ...
Milligan’s trial was the first in which a defendant was found not guilty by reason of insanity on the basis of multiple personality disorder, which today is called dissociative identity disorder ...
Herbert William Mullin (April 18, 1947 [1] – August 18, 2022) [2] was an American serial killer who killed 13 people in California in the early 1970s. He confessed to the killings, which he claimed prevented earthquakes.
The insanity plea was supported by the psychiatrist for the defense, Daniel Schwartz. The psychiatrist for the prosecution, Dr. Harold Zolan, maintained that, although DeFeo was a user of heroin and LSD , he had anti-social personality disorder and was aware of his actions at the time of the crime. [ 9 ]
Anthony Edward Sowell (August 19, 1959 – February 8, 2021) [2] was an American serial killer and rapist known as The Cleveland Strangler. He was convicted in 2011 of murdering 11 women whose bodies were discovered at his Cleveland, Ohio, home in 2009. After being sentenced to death for the murders, Sowell died in prison from a terminal illness.
Paul Graves Williams, 64, faces two capital charges for the November 2018 murders of Lisa Williams, 57, and Paige Williams, 15.