DENPASAR, Bali, Indonesia - Two Americans have been charged with murder in the death of a Chicago woman whose bloody body was found this week in a suitcase outside an Indonesian hotel, police in the Indonesian province of Bali said Friday.
Heather Mack, 19, and
Tommy Schaefer, 21, both of the Chicago area, have been charged with
murder in the death of Mack's mother, Sheila von Weise Mack(photo), said Col.
Djoko Hari Utomo, Bali's chief of police.
Authorities say the badly
beaten body of Sheila Mack, 61, was wrapped in a blood-stained bedsheet
and placed in a large hard-sided suitcase.
They say a young couple put
the suitcase in the trunk of a taxi outside Indonesia's St. Regis Bali
Resort on Tuesday and went back into the hotel, telling the cab driver
that they would be back.
After a lengthy wait, the
cab driver noticed blood and contacted police. Authorities at the South
Kuta station in Bali opened the case and found the body, police said.
Heather Mack and Schaefer
were arrested after being found Wednesday morning at another hotel
about 15 kilometers (9 miles) from the St. Regis, police said.
Source: CNN
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