The Stress of Maintaining a Killing

Helen McDougall had not actively involved herself in any of the killings up to this point. She was only there to calm him down when he couldn't find his grandma. So, Lair actually ended up looking at that as a liability. He wanted Burke to take her into the country for a few weeks, then write Hare and inform him of McDougall's death. The murder would have been committed in the back room of the boarding house.