William Easton was an insurance executive at Umbrella Health who was a target of Jigsaw's tests. His company was responsible for John Kramer's medical coverage which denied him funding for experimental treatment of his cancer and he had helped fund Jill Tuck's rehab clinic. William's tests involved him making similar decisions about who would live and die from his work life before a timer ran out or else he would be dismembered by explosives strapped to his limbs. Completing his tests, he discovered himself in a fifth test, which was not meant for him but for the surviving family of a man whose coverage had been canceled by William. Though he and his captured sister, Pamela Jenkins, were able to appeal to the wife's humanity and spare William, her son activated the device which impaled William on a bed of needles which pumped hydrofluoric acid into his body, dissolving his body in half and killing him.