William Bruffin

William Bruffin was a young doctor working at the Hawthorne clinic. He was a good friend of the clinic's former director Jeremiah O'Kane, but was more suspicious of his successor Colin Dove. He was romantically interested in his friend and co-worker Dr. Hearst, unaware that she was having an affair with Dove. When a series of gruesome murders began to occur around the vacinity of the clinic, Bruffin began his own investigations into the sinister history of the building and of their new 'Patient Zero' - stirring the interest both of the clinic's new financier Peter Russell and of the Preternatural Research Bureau. Before he could get to the answer, however, Bruffin became another victim of the murder spree and his briefly-speaking corpse was discovered by Hearst and Dove.