For slightly longer than a year, Dr. Glass oversaw Ray Soames' treatment for clinical schizophrenia; according to the doctor, Soames had an inability to grasp reality and seemed to suffer from some kind of post-traumatic stress. By 1992, Dr. Glass had treated similar cases to Soames, some or all of whom had been Soames' classmates. The doctor began treating Billy Miles and Peggy O'Dell – who had been in the class of '89 with Soames – in or prior to March 1988 and the two became longterm live-in patients at the psychiatric hospital at around that month.