Murder in Bali: A timeline

Monday, Aug. 4

Widow Sheila von Wiese Mack, 62, and daughter Heather Mack, 18, arrive in Bali from Chicago and check into the St. Regis Hotel.

Monday, Aug. 11

Tommy Schaefer, 21, arrives in Bali.

Hotel surveillance footage shows argument between von Wiese Mack and Schaefer over who should pay for Schaefer's $650/night hotel room.

Police say Sheila von Wiese Mack was bludgeoned in the face and killed in room 317 with a glass ash tray or vase.

Tuesday, Aug. 12

Heather Mack and Schaefer decline help from hotel staff as they load a large suitcase wrapped in a bed sheet into the back of a taxi in front of the St. Regis.

Schaefer and Mack attempt to check out of the hotel but cannot retrieve their passports, which are locked in a hotel safe, with instructions that only Sheila Mack can have access.

Schaefer and Heather Mack flee out the back door of the hotel. They go to Ngurah Rai Airport immigration counter saying they had lost their passports and needed new ones. The couple makes their way to another hotel near the airport, checking in with Sheila's credit card.

Police recover the suitcase and alert area hotels.

Wednesday Aug. 13

Heather Mack and Tommy Schaefer are found asleep in bed and arrested.

Initially they claim an armed gang attacked and robbed them. Mack and Schaefer refuse to speak to the police without lawyers present.

Thursday, Aug. 14

Police transfer Mack and Schaefer from the South Kuta police station to Denpasar police lockup.

Heather Mack and Schaefer are charged with the murder of Sheila von Wiese Mack.

Chicago attorney Michael Elkin says he is representing Heather Mack. He asserts she is innocent of her mother's death. Schaefer is reportedly represented by an Indonesian court-appointed lawyer.

Monday Aug. 18

Heather Mack is confirmed by police to be two months pregnant. Bali police say she will be checked regularly by the local doctor while in custody.

FBI representatives fly to Bali to arrange for the return to the U.S. of Sheila von Wiese Mack's remains.