O.k. I'm finally over to the premeditated side. I think it was planned before they left for Bali and yes, TS and HM were too stupid to look up murder in Indonesia and figured they would be able to slip out of the country before Sheila was found.
Heather the Robot
An article in today's Sydney Morning Herald by Michael Bachelard says that Heather and Tommy offered a re-creation of the murder today and that Tommy did it all while Heather ran into the bathroom to avoid seeing the fight. She had blood on her clothes because she hugged her mother's body after she was dead.
The reconstruction took place inside room 317 of the St. Regis and was, according to lawyers, based on facts agreed by both Tommy and Heather.
Tommy's attack was prompted by Sheila using the n-word to describe Tommy as well as Heather's unborn baby. Heather says she ran into the bathroom when Tommy began attacking Sheila. Tommy hit Sheila four times with the handle of the fruit bowl. The idea to stuff the body in a suitcase was Tommy's.
The pair appear to be claiming that Sheila threatened to kill the baby and Heather also claims her mother suffered from bipolar disorder.
Excerpts:
Schaefer apparently confessed to the murder on Friday, but has said he was provoked by racist comments...
According to Mr Raja, Schaefer had only arrived at the Nusa Dua hotel from the United States at 2am on the day of the murder, and Mack, without her mother's knowledge, had gone to greet him.
The following morning at 8am, Mack ... had urged her boyfriend to visit von Wiese-Mack in her room. He had brought with him the fruit bowl — the property of the hotel — as a gift to a woman who souvenired hotel property wherever she stayed.
That was the reason he was hiding the bowl under his shirt — it was not that he intended to kill her, the lawyer said.
But inside room 317, an argument began over Mack's pregnancy. Von Wiese-Mack then made offensive comments about Schaefer and his baby both being "******s". Statements to police suggest von Wiese-Mack also threatened to kill the baby.
During the argument, as Schaefer was standing by the bed, von Wiese-Mack had her hands around his throat as if to strangle him - a scene that was re-enacted and photographed as part of Monday's reconstruction.
The pair were reported as crying during the reconstruction.
Heather's lawyer claims that a few weeks ago, Heather was hospitalised for three days because she had been neither eating nor drinking, and a doctor was concerned she might lose the baby.
http://www.smh.com.au/world/daughte...cted-like-a-robot-lawyer-20141013-115k3o.html
So Sheila was hit four times with the weapon according to this story. That might be the only part that is true. But what was HM doing, sitting in the bathroom and counting the blows?
I was almost ready to believe that this was an argument that went out of control until I heard this story and the confirmation that TS had the fruit bowl under his shirt. That room is a suite. Why did this altercation take place beside the bed when there is a separate sitting area? Isnt that where you would go to "discuss" things with your unwanted guest? I almost see her getting hit while sleeping, being startled and jumping out of the bed, before being hit three more times.
MOO
Wow, what a load of malarkey. As if HM is some frail innocent who was scared of violence and had to run and avert her eyes from such a scary sight. Oh please. We all know HM was quite capable of violence and was NOT remorseful for assaulting her mother and had even broken bones of her mother. Then after her mother's brutal death she just casually checks out with the killer, gets another hotel where they continue their little love fest until they are caught.
Sure, that sounds completely reasonable ( NOT!!!!)
So can we assume that SWM had an actual bipolar diagnosis? Did she take medication for this? Was medication found in the hotel room?
Can her lawyer be so foolish as to allow a claim like that to go on record without a means to back it up?
MOO
Still waiting to hear if there was an in-room safe and if it was damaged from trying to force it open.
It was a very interesting suggestion by one of our WSers, sorry don't remember who, that perhaps TS entered the room with the iron handle to try to open the in-room safe, if one existed.
Please tell me the FBi has their phones and has been able to recover deleted text messages.
MOO
I can't imagine the duo, along with their attorneys, would put out the bipolar part unless it was true - perhaps one of the few truths in the latest concocted story. JMO
So can we assume that SWM had an actual bipolar diagnosis? Did she take medication for this? Was medication found in the hotel room?
Can her lawyer be so foolish as to allow a claim like that to go on record without a means to back it up
MOO
I would like to think not but then again seeing how the Pistorious (sp) case is now playing out, I would not have foreseen that mess either. We know in the US that would be a stupid move but is it in Indonesia? Also note the lawyers attribute this statement to HM and if it turns out not to have a basis in fact, HM can say if asked about it, she could claim her Mother had told her that, there is noone around to disprove that.