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A Japanese woman found dead on Indonesia's resort island of Bali had multiple stab wounds and her legs had been tied together, police said Sunday.

The naked body of Hiromi Shimada, 41, was found late Saturday in the house she rented near the popular tourist coastal town of Kuta, Bali provincial police spokesman Col. Gede Sugianyar said.

"We found her body in bad condition with several stab wounds in her stomach," Sugianyar said.

He said police continue to investigate the scene and question residents in the area.

Shimada's body was taken to Sanglah Hospital for an autopsy and the Japanese Consulate on Bali has been notified, he said.

In a separate slaying case of a Japanese tourist, police have arrested a man for the death of Rika Sano, 33, who was killed in September near Bali's Kuta beach. They arrested David Goltar Wicaksono, 26, in early October and he is being held on suspicion of murder.

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Robert McCamant, The Caxton Club

Tuesday, Aug 26, 2014 • Updated at 3:20 PM CST

The will of a suburban Chicago woman whose body was found stuffed inside a suitcase on the Indonesian resort island of Bali has reportedly been filed in Cook County.

Sheila von Wiese-Mack’s will was filed by Oak Park attorney Lance Taylor late last week, more than a week after von Wiese-Mack’s 19-year-old daughter, Heather Mack, and her boyfriend, Tommy Schaefer, were arrested in connection with her death, according to the Chicago Sun-Times .

Police Say Disagreement Preceded Bali Suitcase Death

It remains unclear who will inherit von Wiese-Mack’s property, but her brother, William Wiese, was reportedly named the executor of her estate.

Taylor told the newspaper he did estate planning for the 62-year-old and her late husband in 2006 and had “an obligation to file [the will].”

Daughter of woman killed in Bali is pregnant; boyfriend protests KFC in jail

The case of the American couple being questioned in connection with the killing of the woman’s mother in Bali has taken yet another turn.

Heather Mack, the 19-year-old Chicago area woman whose mother was found dead in a suitcase last week, is about two months pregnant, her attorney said, according to Agence France-Presse. And Mack is accusing Indonesian authorities of physically and sexually abusing her while in custody.

The U. S. FBI is assisting Indonesian police in the case of a Chicago woman whose body was found in a suitcase in Bali. Police has arrested her daughter as one of two suspects. (Reuters)

She and her 21-year-old boyfriend, Tommy Schaefer, have been detained in the country for nearly a week while police investigate the circumstances of Sheila von-Wiese Mack’s death.

Vn-Wiese Mack’s half-naked body was found beaten and stuffed into a grey, hard-shelled suitcase on Aug. 12. A taxi driver found the body after Mack and Schaefer brought that suitcase and other pieces of luggage from the hotel to the taxi, then abandoned them. Police said surveillance video shows the pair leaving the luxury St. Regis Bali Resort through the back, on a strip of beach behind the property.

They have been assigned an Indonesian lawyer but have refused to talk to police without their American lawyer, Michael Elkin.

Elkin said Mack tearfully told him that she was sexually assaulted three times while in custody, according to CBS 2 in Chicago .

“I said, ‘Were you touched?’ And she said ‘Yes,’” Elkin told the TV station. “I said, ‘Were you touched inappropriately?’ And she said, ‘Yes.’”

In a separate statement reported by AFP, Elkin said: “Heather was told that if she does not speak to the police she will be deprived of food and water. Heather was told that unless her attorney arrives within days she will be deprived of food and water and that he will be denied access to meet with her.”

But Indonesian authorities deny that there has been mistreatment. In fact, they say, Mack and Schaefer have been given a relative luxury: fried chicken from KFC.

An Indonesian police officer escorts Tommy Schaefer as he is brought to the police station for questioning in relation to the death of his girlfriend’s mother in Bali, Indonesia. (Firdia Lisnawati/Associated Press)

Citing police sources, News Corp Australia Network said Schaefer complained that they had been given the fast food because he is black and “KFC is for the lower echelons of society.” Police countered that in Bali, KFC is too expensive for all but the most well-off Indonesians to afford.

“We have already given treatment that is more than normal,” said Denpasar Police Chief Djoko Hari Utomo, according to News. com. au. in response to Elkin’s claims. “We give the same food for all suspects. We also give special attention to her as she is still young. This is a transition period for her.”

The body of von-Wiese Mack, a Chicago-area widower, will be flown from Indonesia to the United States on Wednesday, according to News. com. au.

In the final moments of her life, von-Wiese Mack struggled, according to an autopsy that was conducted over the weekend. There were indications of a broken neck, a broken nose and asphyxiation, News. com. au reported.

According to Reuters. Indonesian officials say that an FBI agent has arrived in Indonesia to assist in the investigation.

“We are strengthening our investigation so we know what happened. The FBI has already come and is helping us,” Hari Utomo said.

Mack and Schaefer have been officially designated as suspects in the case, but charges are not typically filed in Indonesia until the investigation is complete and the trial begins.

They have said that armed burglars killed von-Wiese Mack and that they managed to escape to a nearby hotel, where police discovered them the following day.

If tried and convicted of pre-meditated murder, they could face a death sentence, which would be carried out by firing squad.

Abby Phillip is a general assignment national reporter for the Washington Post. She can be reached at abby. phillip@washpost. com. On Twitter: @abbydphillip

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Von Wiese-Mack's 19-year-old daughter, Heather Mack, and her 21-year-old boyfriend, Tommy Schaefer, were arrested Wednesday morning at a hotel in Bali's Kuta area, about 10 kilometers (6 miles) away, Utomo said.

Both were being questioned but were refusing to talk until being joined by attorneys, he said.

The U. S. Embassy in Jakarta confirmed that von Wiese-Mack's body had been found, but did not give details.

Utomo said that Mack and Schaefer had hired the taxi and then placed the suitcase inside the car's trunk. The two then told the taxi driver that they were going to check out of the hotel and would return, he said, citing the driver, I Ketut Wirjana.

However, after two hours, Mack and Schaefer had not reappeared, Utomo said. Hotel security guards found blood spots on the suitcase, and suggested that Wirjana drive the taxi to the police station. Officers at the station opened the suitcase and discovered the body.

Von Wiese-Mack, from Chicago, and her daughter arrived at the St. Regis on Saturday, while Schaefer checked in on Monday, Utomo said.

CCTV footage shows that the victim had an argument with Schaefer on Monday in the hotel's lobby, he said.

Von Wiese-Mack's body was being autopsied at a hospital in Denpasar.