Headscratchers / Laura Bow

• Why is the first game so absurdly lethal to Laura? She is the only person present who nobody has any particular reason to want to kill.
  • The plantation is in bad shape and would be hazardous, especially to someone not familiar with it. Lillian is clearly crazy and it's possible she thinks Laura is trying to get between her and her Uncle too. Crazy people don't tend to think rationally. Plus, the more people Lillian kills, the narrower the pool of suspects becomes. It would be pretty easy for Laura to figure out the killer by simple process of elimination. There's also the somewhat darker explanation that Lillian is Laura's friend, therefore if she kills her and the body's somehow discovered, it'll divert suspicion away from Lillian.

• How the heck does the killer manage to stuff all the bodies down the laundry chute without being spotted once? If the killer drags Wilbur's body back from the stable or church, that's a long way to haul so much dead weight, plus somehow smuggle it into the house and then into the nearest room with a chute. The number of potential witnesses does shrink as the night goes on, but in Wilbur's case, almost everyone is still alive, kicking and strolling around. Plus, the mansion has floor-to-ceiling windows in every room that looks onto the outside.

• Related to the above, why does the killer move the bodies so much in the first place? I get that they want to keep their activities secret as long as possible, but in the case of Clarence, the killer stabs him, drags his body into another room, and then drags it back to dump it down the laundry chute. It makes even less sense in the case of someone like Wilbur, who is attacked in the library and his body found either in the chapel or Blaze's stable. Either he escaped there and died of his wounds - and given he's the second victim, there are a lot of people who could see him running away with blood streaming out of his skull - or the killer dragged him to a place where not many people would find him (fair enough) and then dragged him all the way back.

• The motive doesn't make sense to me. Okay, so Henri rather cruelly tells Lillian that they're not remotely special to him, and we're told that this sends the killer crazy and causes them to start killing everyone whom they think have gotten between them and Henri. However, this revelation doesn't happen until after four people have been murdered. What was Lillian's reason for killing them?

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