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yuiyoshida

(41,867 posts) Fri Apr 10, 2015, 04:12 PM Apr 2015

Indonesian prosecutors insist murder of US woman in Bali was planned

Source: AP NEWS

BALI, Indonesia (AP) — Prosecutors say they have enough evidence that an American couple on trial in Indonesia deliberately plotted to kill the woman’s mother while vacationing on the resort island of Bali.

Tommy Schaefer and Heather Mack are being tried separately at the Denpasar District Court on charges of premeditated murder.

The badly beaten body of Sheila von Wiese-Mack, 62, was found in a suitcase on a taxi outside a hotel in August.

Chief prosecutor Eddy Arta Wijaya said Thursday that witnesses’ testimonies and the defendants’ text messages show how the couple planned to kill von Wiese-Mack. The prosecutors say Schaefer and Mack should be found guilty and sentenced to 18- and 15-year jail terms respectively.

Read more: http://asiancorrespondent.com/132033/indonesian-prosecutors-insist-murder-of-us-woman-in-bali-was-planned/

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Indonesian prosecutors insist murder of US woman in Bali was planned (Original Post) yuiyoshida Apr 2015 OP

So they execute people for drug possession, but give sub-20 year Chakab Apr 2015 #1

Stuffing in a suitcase is an extra year cosmicone Apr 2015 #3

A lot of the idiots think that police in third world cosmicone Apr 2015 #2

With all of the stories about Westerners getting extremely harsh senetences in Chakab Apr 2015 #4

Indonesia is one of the toughest davidpdx Apr 2015 #5

Money, power, jealousy and fear are the main motives cosmicone Apr 2015 #6

Chakab

(1,727 posts)

1. So they execute people for drug possession, but give sub-20 year

Reply to yuiyoshida (Original post)

Fri Apr 10, 2015, 04:27 PM

Apr 2015

sentences for killing people and stuffing them in suitcases?

cosmicone

(11,014 posts)

3. Stuffing in a suitcase is an extra year

Reply to Chakab (Reply #1)

Fri Apr 10, 2015, 04:29 PM

Apr 2015

Stuffing in a backpack is an extra 6 months.

cosmicone

(11,014 posts)

2. A lot of the idiots think that police in third world

Reply to yuiyoshida (Original post)

Fri Apr 10, 2015, 04:27 PM

Apr 2015

are incompetent and/or won't charge white foreigners. They also think the police there don't have access to CSI type stuff.

They are usually wrong and pay for it dearly because foreign laws don't have any culprit-protections built-in to get off on technicalities.

Chakab

(1,727 posts)

4. With all of the stories about Westerners getting extremely harsh senetences in

Reply to cosmicone (Reply #2)

Fri Apr 10, 2015, 04:36 PM

Apr 2015

Southeast Asian countries, it boggles the mind that many tourists still go there specifically to engage in criminal activity.

davidpdx

(22,000 posts)

5. Indonesia is one of the toughest

Reply to cosmicone (Reply #2)

Fri Apr 10, 2015, 09:16 PM

Apr 2015

If they really disliked her dogdamn just don't talk to her. Maybe there was money involved. Didn't look like much information was available yet. I am curious why they would try to kill her though.

cosmicone

(11,014 posts)

6. Money, power, jealousy and fear are the main motives

Reply to davidpdx (Reply #5)

Fri Apr 10, 2015, 09:18 PM

Apr 2015

Since it probably wasn't about power, jealousy and fear, that leaves money.

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