Overview

• Police say a hotel employee and a former employee confessed to entering Matilde Muñoz’s bungalow to rob her and killing her by asphyxiation, with the cause of death pending autopsy.
• Her body was recovered buried on a Senggigi beach near a restaurant she frequented after investigators learned it had been hidden for weeks in a storage room at the Bumi Aditya hotel.
• Hospital officials confirmed the autopsy delay due to a single available forensic specialist for more than 400 islands, with the procedure expected to take place Thursday in Lombok.
• The two suspects are being held in isolation for 15 days and could remain detained for up to 60 days as local police prepare a report for prosecutors and keep the probe focused on them.
• Interpol and Jakarta police are assisting the case after phone geolocation linked to a black-market sale helped identify suspects, while Muñoz’s family urges a broader inquiry and notes the hotel’s lack of functioning CCTV since 2008.