Trial Starts for Mulatto Witch Who Murdered Her White Mother and Stuffed the Corpse into a Suitcase

Chicago CBS Local
January 17, 2015

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Sheila von Wiese-Mack was battered to death and stuffed into a suitcase, by her half-breed daughter and boyfriend.

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.

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Heather Mack and her boyfriend Tommy Schaefer (right) are accused of murdering Mack’s mother, Sheila von Wiese-Mack, whose body was found stuffed inside a suitcase in the back of a taxi outside a luxury Bali hotel in August 2014.

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.

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The suitcase.

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