American Murdered at Posh Bali Resort and Stuffed into a Suitcase

Caption: The suitcase in which Sheila Von Weise Mack’s body was found. | The trunk of the taxi at the St. Regis Hotel. | Tommy Schaffer, 21, is in custody.

A 62-year-old woman was beaten to death in a posh Bali resort hotel and stuffed into a suitcase this week — and now her teenage daughter and the daughter’s boyfriend are under arrest.

The body of Sheila von Weise-Mack — a Chicago woman who was raised in Grosse Pointe, MI, according to the Chicago Tribune — was found in a suitcase in the back of a taxi at the St. Regis Hotel in Depasar, Bali, in Indonesia, reports The Daily Mail.

The daughter, Heather Mack, 19, and a man, Tommy Schaefer, 21, were staying at the hotel and were later joined by Heather’s mother. Police said hotel cameras show Von Weise Mack arguing with Schaffer. The morning after the argument in the hotel lobby, the young couple checked out of the hotel and lugged the big suitcase to a taxi. Police said hotel employees told them the couple would not let anyone touch the suitcase.

The couple did not return to the taxi, which sat at the hotel for hours. The driver and hotel employees then opened the trunk and saw blood on the outside of the suitcase, after which the driver went to the police station. Authorities opened the suitcase and found Von Weise Mack’s body half-naked body, according to CNN.

“The body was wrapped in a hotel bedsheet and tied up with duct tape,” said Denpasar police chief Djoko Hari Utomo, according to The Daily Mail. “There were blood stains all over the sheet.”

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A medical examiner said Von Weise Mack was severely beaten.

“There were signs of a struggle by the victim, as there were bruises on her arms and some fingers were broken,” said Ida Bagus Putu Alit, per a report in the Chicago Tribune. Alit said she was hit on the face and head with a blunt object.

The daughter and the young man, Schaffer, were found sleeping at another hotel and taken into custody on suspicion of murder, according to CNN.

Under questioning, her daughter and boyfriend told police they had been taken captive by an armed gang but managed to escape, according to CNN. They said the gang killed Von Weise Mack.

Hotel employees and the taxi driver told a far different story, however.

Von Weise-Mack was the wife of well-known conductor and composer James L. Mack, who died in 2006, according to NBC Chicago.

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