The Mysterious Story of Billy Milligan
On
Saturday
,
October
22
,
1977
,
University
Police
Chief
John
Kleberg
placed
the
area
of
Ohio
State
University
’
s
medical
school
under
heavy
police
security
.
Armed
officers
patrolled
the
campus
in
cruisers
and
on
root
,
and
armed
observers
watched
from
rooftops
.
Women
were
warned
not
to
walk
alone
,
and
to
be
cautious
of
men
when
entering
their
cars
.
For
the
second
time
in
eight
days
,
a
young
woman
had
been
kidnapped
from
the
campus
,
at
gunpoint
,
between
seven
and
eight
o
clock
in
the
morning
.
The
first
was
a
twenty
-
five
-
year
-
old
optometry
student
,
the
second
a
twenty
-
four
-
year
-
old
nurse
.
Each
had
been
driven
into
the
countryside
,
raped
,
made
to
cash
checks
and
then
robbed
.
The
newspapers
published
police
photographic
composites
,
and
the
public
responded
with
hundreds
of
phone
calls
,
names
and
descriptions
—
all
worthless
.
There
were
no
significant
leads
and
no
suspects
.
Tension
in
the
university
community
mounted
.
Pressure
on
Chief
Kleberg
grew
more
intense
as
student
organizations
and
community
groups
demanded
the
capture
of
the
man
Ohio
newspapers
and
TV
broadcasters
had
begun
to
refer
to
as
"
the
Campus
Rapist
.
"
Kleberg
put
Eliot
Boxerbaum
,
the
young
investigations
supervisor
,
in
charge
of
the
manhunt
.
A
self
-
styled
liberal
,
Boxerbaum
had
become
involved
in
police
work
while
attending
OSU
following
the
student
disturbances
that
closed
the
campus
down
in
1970
.
After
his
graduation
that
year
,
he
was
offered
a
job
in
the
university
police
department
if
he
would
cut
his
long
hair
and
shave
off
his
mustache
.
He
cut
his
hair
,
but
he
balked
at
shaving
his
mustache
.
They
hired
him
anyway
.
As
Boxerbaum
and
Kleberg
examined
the
photographic
composites
and
the
data
provided
by
the
two
victims
,
everything
seemed
to
point
to
a
single
assailant
:
a
white
American
male
,
between
twenty
-
three
and
twenty
-
seven
,
weighing
between
175
and
185
pounds
,
with
brown
or
reddish
-
brown
hair
.
Both
times
the
man
had
worn
a
brown
jogging
top
,
jeans
and
white
sneakers
.
Carrie
Dryer
,
the
first
victim
,
remembered
that
the
rapist
wore
gloves
and
carried
a
small
revolver
.
Occasionally
his
eyes
drifted
from
side
to
side
—
the
symptom
of
an
eye
condition
she
recognized
as
nystagmus
.
He
had
handcuffed
her
to
the
inside
door
of
her
car
and
drove
her
to
a
desolate
country
area
,
where
he
raped
her
.
After
the
rape
he
told
her
,
"
If
you
go
to
the
police
,
don
’
t
give
them
my
description
.
If
I
see
anything
in
the
newspaper
,
I
’
ll
send
someone
after
you
.
"
As
if
to
prove
he
meant
business
,
he
took
names
from
her
address
book
.
Donna
West
,
a
short
,
plump
nurse
,
said
her
assailant
carried
an
automatic
pistol
.
There
was
something
on
his
hands
—
not
dirt
or
grease
,
but
an
oily
stain
of
some
kind
.
At
one
point
he
had
said
his
name
was
Phil
.
He
cursed
a
lot
.
He
wore
brown
-
tinted
sunglasses
,
and
she
never
saw
his
eyes
.
He
took
the
names
of
relatives
and
warned
her
that
if
she
identified
him
,
she
or
someone
in
her
family
would
be
harmed
by
a
"
brotherhood
"
that
would
carry
out
his
threats
.
She
,
and
the
police
,
assumed
he
was
boasting
about
being
part
of
a
terrorist
organization
or
the
Mafia
.
Kleberg
and
Boxerbaum
were
confused
by
only
one
significant
difference
in
the
two
descriptions
.
The
first
man
was
described
as
having
a
full
,
neatly
trimmed
mustache
.
The
second
was
described
as
having
a
three
-
day
growth
of
beard
but
no
mustache
.
