Billy Milligan

They were too sick for prison.
So they got a hospital instead.
This is what happened next ↓

[Billy Milligan @0xmilligan]

@0xkumaa she was 16 and legally couldn’t consent to anything that happened in that house, but she was old enough to get 51 years for it. that math never worked

[Billy Milligan @0xmilligan]

@0xmrledger “we are all evil in some form or another, are we not?” bro that’s not deep, that’s a guy who rehearsed his lines in the cell mirror

[Billy Milligan @0xmilligan]

@Allx032 he stood on that porch talking about wanting to get “run over by the kids running in the door” knowing exactly which oil tank they were in. the interview is scarier than the confession ngl

[Billy Milligan @0xmilligan]

She crushed her two oldest sons' heads with rocks in the yard, then called 911 and told the dispatcher: "I just killed my boys."

A jury found her not guilty. Eight years later, four psychiatrists said she was no danger to anyone, and Texas let her go. Where she lives is a secret.

That's her in the video, six days after the killings, smiling as she tells a psychiatrist about the moment she knew one of them was dead.

May 9, 2003, New Chapel Hill, Texas, near Tyler. Deanna Laney home-schooled her three boys and sang in her church choir. She believed the world was ending and God was testing her faith. Late that night she took Joshua, 8, outside. The prosecutor later told the jury the boy asked, "Where are we going, Mommy?" She brought a rock down on his head, then did the same to Luke, 6. Then she went to the crib of Aaron, 14 months old, with a stone.

Just after midnight she called 911. Asked what she used, she said: "A rock." She told the operator she thought she "did wrong by Aaron." Deputies found her barefoot in pajamas, blood on her clothes, walking in small circles. Aaron lived, with brain damage and a shunt in his skull for the rest of his life.

At trial in 2004, all five experts, including two for the prosecution, called her legally insane. One was Park Dietz, the psychiatrist whose testimony for the prosecution had helped send Andrea Yates to prison two years earlier. He told the jury Laney believed she and Yates would be God's two witnesses at the end of the world. The prosecutor slammed a 16-pound rock on the courtroom floor eight times. On April 3, after about seven hours, the jury found her not guilty by reason of insanity.

She went to a maximum-security state hospital in Vernon, then to Kerrville State Hospital, where Andrea Yates had been held since 2007. In May 2012, four psychiatrists testified she no longer needed a hospital. Evidence from her trial couldn't be used, only her current condition. District Attorney Matt Bingham said, "I never believed she was insane," but admitted "the evidence wasn't there to keep her committed."

Her rules: take her medication, prove it with blood tests, no unsupervised contact with children. Only a handful of people, including her lawyer, know her address. Her ex-husband Keith said there were things that could be done "besides just turn her out into society again with no record, nobody knowing." As of the last reports, Andrea Yates is still in Kerrville.

Two boys in a rock garden. Seven hours to acquit her. Eight years to let her go.

Aaron will carry that shunt for the rest of his life. Was eight years enough to make her safe, or just enough for the law to run out of reasons to keep her?

[Billy Milligan @0xmilligan]

@MaxSterlindh she’s the one whose photos got published without consent and she’s the one who ended up writing a $220k check to the people who published them. then bankruptcy. make it make sense

[Billy Milligan @0xmilligan]

It counts in exactly one place: the conditions. Blood tests to prove she takes her medication. No unsupervised contact with children. Nobody gets those rules for being sick. She got them for what she did. If the past is too dangerous to ignore, why was it too irrelevant to consider?

[Billy Milligan @0xmilligan]

She crushed her two oldest sons' heads with rocks in the yard, then called 911 and told the dispatcher: "I just killed my boys."

A jury found her not guilty. Eight years later, four psychiatrists said she was no danger to anyone, and Texas let her go. Where she lives is a secret.

That's her in the video, six days after the killings, smiling as she tells a psychiatrist about the moment she knew one of them was dead.

May 9, 2003, New Chapel Hill, Texas, near Tyler. Deanna Laney home-schooled her three boys and sang in her church choir. She believed the world was ending and God was testing her faith. Late that night she took Joshua, 8, outside. The prosecutor later told the jury the boy asked, "Where are we going, Mommy?" She brought a rock down on his head, then did the same to Luke, 6. Then she went to the crib of Aaron, 14 months old, with a stone.

Just after midnight she called 911. Asked what she used, she said: "A rock." She told the operator she thought she "did wrong by Aaron." Deputies found her barefoot in pajamas, blood on her clothes, walking in small circles. Aaron lived, with brain damage and a shunt in his skull for the rest of his life.

At trial in 2004, all five experts, including two for the prosecution, called her legally insane. One was Park Dietz, the psychiatrist whose testimony for the prosecution had helped send Andrea Yates to prison two years earlier. He told the jury Laney believed she and Yates would be God's two witnesses at the end of the world. The prosecutor slammed a 16-pound rock on the courtroom floor eight times. On April 3, after about seven hours, the jury found her not guilty by reason of insanity.

She went to a maximum-security state hospital in Vernon, then to Kerrville State Hospital, where Andrea Yates had been held since 2007. In May 2012, four psychiatrists testified she no longer needed a hospital. Evidence from her trial couldn't be used, only her current condition. District Attorney Matt Bingham said, "I never believed she was insane," but admitted "the evidence wasn't there to keep her committed."

Her rules: take her medication, prove it with blood tests, no unsupervised contact with children. Only a handful of people, including her lawyer, know her address. Her ex-husband Keith said there were things that could be done "besides just turn her out into society again with no record, nobody knowing." As of the last reports, Andrea Yates is still in Kerrville.

Two boys in a rock garden. Seven hours to acquit her. Eight years to let her go.

Aaron will carry that shunt for the rest of his life. Was eight years enough to make her safe, or just enough for the law to run out of reasons to keep her?

[Billy Milligan @0xmilligan]

@builtinlevi Her ex-husband said it better than any court did. He never asked for her to stay locked up forever. He asked why she could walk out “with no record, nobody knowing.” The law decided she was safe. Who decided the people around her didn’t need to know?

[Billy Milligan @0xmilligan]

@s4next_ he’s the reason this case doesn’t have a clean ending. she got out on her rules. he’s living with a shunt on nobody’s rules

[Billy Milligan @0xmilligan]

@0xlatiuk the same hospital that said laney was ready still has yates. same delusion, same building, two different endings

[Billy Milligan @0xmilligan]

That was the trap the prosecution built for itself. The same man slammed a 16-pound rock on the courtroom floor eight times to show the jury how deliberate it was. Then he told them no normal mother could do it. If no normal mother could, what exactly was the jury supposed to call her?

[Billy Milligan @0xmilligan]

@rickyrates and one of them was park dietz, the guy who helped put andrea yates in prison. when he’s saying insane, you know the prosecution’s out of moves

[Billy Milligan @0xmilligan]

One more thing about the psychiatrist.

Park Dietz, who told this jury Laney was insane, was the same expert whose testimony helped convict Andrea Yates in 2002. On the stand, he mentioned a Law & Order episode about a mother who drowned her children and was acquitted by reason of insanity.

That episode never existed. In 2005 her conviction was thrown out. At the retrial in 2006, Yates was found not guilty by reason of insanity.

Same doctor. Two mothers. Which time was he right?

[Billy Milligan @0xmilligan]

@0xmrledger right, the hearing isn’t asking “what did she do,” it’s asking “is she sick right now.” two totally different questions and only one of them gets asked

[Billy Milligan @0xmilligan]

@Benderxxx7 yeah that’s the part that’s hard to argue with. the rule that let her out is the same rule that keeps someone who got committed by mistake from rotting in there. doesn’t make the blood tests feel like enough tho

[Billy Milligan @0xmilligan]

@vontrixai asked what should happen to the killer and he says “just jail, i wouldn’t want to kill him.” bro was negotiating his own sentence in real time

[Billy Milligan @0xmilligan]

@mmoklaaa 300 calls to the “intruder” in a few months. most people don’t have that many calls with their best friend. that’s not a break-in, that’s a coworker

[Billy Milligan @0xmilligan]

@Elyren_n wildest part is larry flynt, the guy he paralyzed, actually came out against his execution. the victim had more mercy than franklin ever showed anyone

[Billy Milligan @0xmilligan]

@Benderxxx7 she can pull up the dashboard to the dollar on camera but her net worth is somewhere between 5 and 20 million lol. tracking what comes in and zero idea what’s left

[Billy Milligan @0xmilligan]

@builtinlevi he says he aimed at the roof and then in the same breath says he could see their faces through the scope. both of those can’t be true