ATTACKER ON THE LINE

Newsday/Oscar Corral

William Milligan, 56, was charged with first degree rape and arraigned in Mamaroneck VillageCourt and ordered held

without bail in Westchester County jail's psychiatric unit. The arrest came after, Meryl Greene,a telemarketer, called police after calling a client in a lingerie shop and hearing her beingthreatened. After hearing Hang up the

__________phone. They're going to have to break the door down and find you dead, the phone linewent dead. Police

arrived before the suspect could escape because of Greene's quick thinking. Milligan had brokenup with the victim three weeks ago but soon begged her to take him back. She refused and he triedto kill himself two weeks ago with the same rifle he allegedly used in the attack on Thursday. Thevictim had been raped and beaten.