Nationwide Plaza is named as the site of an August assault on a woman whose case was treated as distinct from the attacks associated with the Ohio State University campus. The book supplies no further description of the plaza; its narrative significance lies in how the location marks a disputed boundary between allegations in the Milligan case.

The August Allegation

Gary Schweickart refers to a woman assaulted at Nationwide Plaza while discussing Ragen’s account of the crimes. He says he believes Ragen’s denial of responsibility for that assault, regarding it as different in pattern from the other cases. Judy Stevenson agrees that the accusation appears to follow a separate pattern and describes it as a copycat allegation. Their exchange presents the plaza not as a setting for a fully narrated episode, but as the named site of a contested charge.

Distinction from the Campus Cases

When Dr. George Harding describes Milligan as the young man who attacked four women on the Ohio State University campus, Schweickart corrects him: the campus cases involved three women, while the Nationwide Plaza assault was different and, in Schweickart’s view, would be excluded. This correction makes the location important to the case’s framing. It prevents the plaza allegation from being folded uncritically into the campus series, even as the broader question of Ragen’s responsibility remains contested.

Conflicting Accounts and Narrative Significance

The dispute over the other three women further shows why the distinction matters. Arthur argues that, according to Adalana’s account, those women cooperated and were not injured; Judy rejects that version, and neither she nor Schweickart accepts it as an account of what happened. The disagreement concerns Adalana’s perceptions and the victims’ accounts, not a further description of Nationwide Plaza. The location’s limited but precise role is therefore evidentiary: it anchors one allegation that the defense-side discussion separates from the campus offenses, while leaving responsibility for that allegation in dispute.