Couple arrested after tourist's body found in suitcase - Polidicks

[QUOTE]Jakarta, Indonesia (CNN) -- The cabbie probably thought nothing of it when the young couple left their large hard-sided suitcase in the trunk of his car and went back into the five-star hotel. They said they needed to find the other person they were with and to pay their bill. But after a lengthy wait, the young man and woman still hadn't returned. Puzzled, the driver called hotel security. The suitcase in the trunk looked very odd. It was wrapped in a bedsheet. Then the cabbie saw blood. --- When authorities at the South Kuta station in Bali, Indonesia, opened the case, they found inside the badly beaten body of Sheila von Weise Mack, wrapped in a blood-stained bedsheet. Two smaller suitcases were found in the St. Regis Bali Resort garden. Both contained hotel towels with blood on them, according to police. Those are the events that police say unfolded Tuesday. Mack, 62, of Chicago, had been staying at the posh St. Regis with her daughter, Heather Mack, and the daughter's boyfriend, Tommy Schaefer. The daughter and her boyfriend were found Wednesday morning at another hotel about 15 kilometers (9 miles) away. The couple's St. Regis room was "very messy," with clothes still inside. The couple told police they had been taken captive at the resort by an armed gang, whose members killed Sheila von Weise Mack, but they escaped, CNN affiliate Trans TV reported.[/QUOTE] [URL="http://edition.cnn.com/2014/08/13/world/asia/indonesia-american-woman-killed/index.html?hpt=hp_t3"]Source + Video[/URL]

[quote]Djoko Hari Utomo, police chief of Denpasar, the capital of Bali, said Thursday that the pair have been declared suspects in the case. According to Indonesian law, police can keep suspects in custody for up to 20 days. Djoko said that police hadn't found anything on surveillance camera footage from the hotel that supported the claim of an attack by an armed gang. He said the footage showed the mother and daughter arguing near the hotel's front desk on Tuesday. A lawyer appointed for the couple told Reuters that Heather Mack didn't want to comment on the incident. She repeatedly asked for a lawyer from the United States, he said.[/quote] Also: [quote]An Oak Park police spokesman said a quick check showed officers had gone to the family's home 86 times between 2004 and 2013. The calls were for a variety of reasons including domestic trouble, missing persons reports and followups to 911 hangups, David Powers said. There were no records that anyone was arrested, he added. A man who said he was the Macks' neighbor told the CNN affiliate WGN that Sheila von Weise Mack moved last year in hopes it would help improve family relations and for her to be closer to the arts.[/quote] And: [quote]A friend of the family described her as warm and thoughtful. Mark Bacharach, who had known her for 27 years, said she "did not have a condescending, malicious bone in her body." Bacharach said mother and daughter had a tumultuous relationship. "(Heather) could be extremely charming to guests, but mean to her mother," he said.[/quote] Judging by all this, I'm placing my bet on argument gone wrong which escalated into murder or manslaughter.

seems like they took that old "take me with you in your suitcase" joke a little too literally

Well they will be carrying around this baggage for the rest of their life