BALI, Indonesia – An Indonesian court has opened the trial of an American couple accused of killing the woman’s mother last year in the resort island of Bali.
The 19-year-old Heather Mack and her boyfriend, the 21-year-old Tommy Schaefer, both from Chicago, were put on separate trials Wednesday at the Denpasar District Court on charges of premeditated murder, which carry a maximum death penalty.
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They were arrested Aug. 13, a day after the badly beaten body of the 62-year-old Sheila von Wiese-Mack was found in a suitcase inside the trunk of a taxi at the St. Regis Bali Resort.
In their indictments, prosecutors said the couple plotted the kill von Wiese-Mack because she did not endorse their relationship.
Their lawyers planned to submit defence pleas when the trial resumes next week.
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