U.S. couple found guilty of 'sadistic' Bali suitcase murder

Tommy Schaefer of the U.S., leaves a Denpasar court after hearing his verdict on the Indonesian resort island of Bali April 21, 2015. REUTERS/Darren Whiteside

DENPASAR (Reuters) - An Indonesian court found a young U.S. couple guilty on Tuesday of murdering the woman's mother and stuffing her battered body into a suitcase on the resort island of Bali.

Heather Mack and Tommy Schaefer, both from the Chicago area, were arrested last August after staff at a luxury hotel discovered the body of Mack's mother, Sheila von Wiese-Mack, in an abandoned suitcase in a taxi.