Overview

• Indonesian authorities recovered the body of 72-year-old Matilde Muñoz buried on a beach near the Bumi Aditya hotel where she was staying in Senggigi, Lombok.
• Police detained two men, aged 34 and 30, who confessed to entering her bungalow through a window to rob her and to asphyxiating her, with charges of premeditated homicide and violent robbery.
• Officials confirmed one suspect was employed at the hotel and the other had previously worked there, as investigators examine staff accounts and contradictions reported by the victim’s circle.
• According to police, the suspects took about three million rupiah and tried to use a debit card; the victim’s phone has been recovered after being sold by a suspect, and her passport has also been located.
• The autopsy has been delayed and the formal report is in preparation, while officers continue interrogations and the family presses for a wider inquiry into potential accomplices.