American man confesses to Bali suitcase murder, Indonesian police say

Heather Mack, stands at the police district headquarters on 14 August after she was brought in for questioning in relation to the death of her mother. Photograph: Firdia Lisnawati/AP

An American man has confessed that he killed his girlfriend’s mother in a luxury hotel on Indonesia’s Bali island, and the girlfriend has acknowledged helping him stuff the body into a suitcase, police said Friday.
Heather Mack, 19, and her boyfriend Tommy Schaefer, 21, both from Chicago, were arrested in Bali on 13 August, a day after the body of Sheila von Wiese-Mack was found in a suitcase inside the trunk of a taxi at the St. RegisBali Resort.
“Schaefer confessed to killing von Wiese-Mack during police interrogation,” police chief Colonel Djoko Heru Utomo told the Associated Press. “He was hurt and offended by the victim’s words in an argument with him. That is the motive for the murder.”
He said Mack, who is three months’ pregnant, admitted in a separate interrogation that she helped Schaefer stuff her mother’s body into a suitcase.
Utomo said Schaefer and Mack were accompanied by their Indonesian and US lawyers during the interrogations.
Attempts to reach the Indonesian lawyers were not immediately successful.
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