Peter Lorens

Peter Lorens was Hillbrook Asylum's second director, who ran the asylum from 1927 to 1949. He is most well known for beginning Hillbrook's infamous methods of treatment. 
== History ==
=== Working at Hillbrook ===
Lorens had worked at Hillbrook Asylum since 1919 but never really got along with his boss, Markway Hillbrook. Unlike Markway, Lorens did not want to cure the patients with compassion, but with torture. Markway stated that he was worse than anyone he had encountered at Shadow Mountain. In order to remain on Hillbrook's staff, he had been forced to reign himself in.
=== Director of Hillbrook ===
In 1927, Markway was murdered and the role of director fell upon Lorens. With Markway gone, Lorens was able to let loose and transformed Hillbrook into a peaceful place of rehabilitation to a chamber of horrors. He introduced methods such as electro-shock therapy, solitary confinement, boiling water treatment, sitting cages, crucifixion, and early versions of crude lobotomy. He also expanded the building to include 500 cells instead of 100.
=== Death of Family ===
Lorens's reputation granted him many enemies in the asylum, the most notable of which was escape artist One-Eyed Joe. In 1945, Joe strangled Dr. Lorens' wife and two children with piano wire. Following this, he was returned to Hillbrook, where Lorens decided to treat him privately. Joe died from being over-shocked by Lorens, who stated it was an accident. The death of his family only made him more cruel, and every patient he treated ended up dead in one way or another. All in all, 40 patients had died by the time he resigned in 1949
== Personality ==
== Relationships ==
=== Markway Hillbrook ===
=== One-Eyed Joe ===
One-Eyed Joe is unofficially referred to as Lorens' archenemy.
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