A young American couple has been arrested after the woman’s mother was found dead and stuffed in a suitcase in Bali yesterday.
The suitcase was placed into the back of a taxicab in front of the luxury hotel, St. Regis Bali in Nusa Dua. The taxi cab driver alerted police that the couple, identified as Heather Mack, 19, and boyfriend Tommy Schaefer, 21, dumped the suitcase and disappeared for over two hours and never returned to claim it. When police delivered the suitcase to the local police station, it was bloody on the outside and there were visible wounds to the victim’s forehead.
Police have reviewed hotel security footage and interviewed other guests of the hotel. While, the investigation is still undergoing, they believe Schaefer killed the mother – who has been identified as Sheila von Wiese Mack, 62 - after a public fight on Monday night in the hotel lobby.
The couple was located and arrested on Wednesday. Officials seem confident that the couple is responsible for the murder, but the investigation will continue as officials try to determine why it happened in the first place.
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