Chicago woman murdered, stuffed into suitcase in Bali

What was supposed to be a placid and refreshing vacation in South East Asia devolved into a chaotic and violent murder at a luxurious resort.

The Daily Mail reports that a 62-year-old Chicago-based intellectual was found dismembered and stuffed inside a suitcase in a five-star hotel. The intellectual was Sheila von Wiese Mack. Her daughter, 19-year-old Heather, and her boyfriend, 21-year-old Tommy Schaefer, have been arrested as suspects in the case. The group was in Bali on holiday together.

A driver who was supposed to pick up the group discovered the brutalized, battered, and dismembered body after the two suspects loaded a suitcase with the body into the trunk of the driver's car, but then disappeared.

The driver waited for the couple for two hours before noticing that the suitcase was leaking blood. He then notified the authorities.

Images online showed the bloody silver suitcase where the couple had coldly stuffed the body of Sheila. An official with the police said that before authorities got to the scene, the suitcase was wrapped in a sheet that had been tightly taped around the suitcase with duct tape.  Other photos from the scene showed smears of blood on the back of a blue car, presumably the car of the driver.

The couple apparently used that two-hour window to escape to a different hotel nearby, which is where the police located and arrested them.

A coroner who evaluated Sheila's remains said that she had been hit in the head several times with a blunt object. The coroner also said he believed that the victim had fought back because a finger on her left hand was broken.

The couple tried to get away with their murder by claiming that a group of armed men had barged into their hotel room and taken them captive, killing Sheila, while the couple somehow miraculously escaped.