An expert witness says Bryan Miller, the man charged with murdering two women in Phoenix 30 years ago, had his consciousness 'fractured' by childhood abuse.
The childhood abuse experienced by Bryan Miller, accused of killing two young women in Phoenix 30 years ago, was so extreme that it fractured his consciousness in two, an expert witness testified Tuesday.detailing the childhood abuse Miller and others say he endured at the hands of his mother, who died in 2010.
“It’s functioning on its own," Cunningham said, of this second state."It’s like an encapsulated tumor." Both women died from a forceful stab wound to the back and were mutilated after death. They are believed to have been attacked as they cycled along Phoenix canals, and the case became known as the"canal killings." It went unsolved for decades until a DNA breakthrough led to Miller's arrest in 2015.
“Those are invariably traumatic and anxiety-provoking and typically full of fear and rage and humiliation and shame and all kinds of feelings and experiences that are beyond the ability to be contained in a cohesive sense of self," he said.numerous other diagnoses
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