Chicago CBS Local
January 17, 2015

An American couple went on trial in Indonesia on Wednesday on charges of murdering the woman’s mother last year on the resort island of Bali.

Mack earlier told investigators that Schaefer beat her mother during an argument, according to her lawyer.
They were arrested on Aug. 13, a day after von Wiese-Mack’s body was found in the taxi at the St. Regis Bali Resort.
In the indictments, obtained by The Associated Press, prosecutors said the couple plotted the murder because von Wiese-Mack did not endorse their relationship.
