JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian police investigating the death of a Chicago woman whose body was found stuffed in a suitcase say the woman’s daughter told them her boyfriend killed her mother after she called him a racial slur.

Denpasar police detective chief Capt. Nengah Sadiarta said Thursday that Heather Mack told police that Tommy Schaefer became angry when her mother called him the N-word, and that he killed her while Mack watched in a hotel room on the Indonesia resort island of Bali.

Schaefer is black, as was the late husband of the victim, Sheila von Wiese-Mack, who was white.

Her body was found in a suitcase inside the trunk of a taxi at the St. Regis Bali Resort in August. Witnesses said they had seen her arguing with Mack and Schaefer.

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