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 "There has been no confession yet but the couple are now being
detained and interrogated," Hery Wiyanto, Bali police spokesman,
told Reuters by phone, adding the killing took place on Tuesday.
Heather Louise Mack, 19, and Tommy Schaefer, 21, were arrested on
Wednesday after a day-long chase.
Ida Bagus Putu Alit, a forensic expert at the hospital that
conducted an autopsy, said Sheila von Wiese-Mack, 62, had been "hit
by a blunt object and the blows were concentrated on the face and
head."
"There were signs of a struggle by the victim as there were bruises
on her arms and some fingers were broken," Alit added.
The Mack family lived for a number of years in the Chicago suburb of
Oak Park, Illinois.
Oak Park spokesman David Powers said on Wednesday police responded
to 86 calls from the Mack home due to incidents between mother and
daughter from 2004 through June 2013.
No arrests were ever made from the calls, which were a combination
of reports of domestic violence, theft, missing person and 911
hang-ups, Powers said.
Von Wiese-Mack more recently had moved to a condominium in Chicago.
Her husband and the father of Heather Louise Mack, classical music
composer James Mack, died in 2006.
Laura Voigt, a pianist in Oak Park and friend to James Mack, said
she remembered seeing mother and daughter fight outside the local
high school one morning.
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"I was worried about Sheila," Voigt said.
Von Wiese-Mack had worked as an editor for famed oral historian
Studs Terkel and later studied with writer Saul Bellow at the
University of Chicago.
Georgia Parchem, a neighbor and friend in Oak Park, said von
Wiese-Mack was a "lovely, charming woman" and the Macks often held
parties involving "artists and friends from all over the city."
U.S. State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf said the department is
aware of the reports of a U.S. citizen's death in Bali and the
arrests of two people in connection with the case. She declined to
give details due to privacy considerations.
"Obviously we are monitoring it and will provide any consular access
as appropriate," Harf said.
(Reporting by Chris Nusatya in Jakarta, Mark Guarino in Chicago and
David Brunnstrom in Washington; Writing by Kanupriya Kapoor; Editing
by Andrew Roche and Eric Beech)
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