A 37-year-old man is in custody after Mackenzie “Kenzie” Michalski was killed while on vacation in Budapest, Hungary.
Police have released the internet searches of a man who allegedly killed an American tourist who was on vacation in Hungary.
Mackenzie “Kenzie” Michalski, a nurse practitioner who lived in Portland, Oregon, was reported missing on November 5 after she was last seen at a nightclub in Budapest.
Local police launched an investigation, and obtained security footage from nightclubs. They spotted 31-year-old Michalski with a man later identified as the suspect in several nightclubs on the night of her disappearance.
The man, a 37-year-old Irish citizen who police identified only with the initials L.T.M., was detained on November 7. Police said he confessed to the killing, but said it had been an accident.
Police said Michalski met the man in a nightclub and together they visited another nightclub, where they danced before leaving to go to the man’s rented apartment.
“They had gotten intimate, and he killed her in the process”, police said.
Police alleged that he tried to cover up the crime by cleaning the apartment and hiding Michalski’s body in a wardrobe while he went out to purchase a suitcase.
He placed her body inside, rented a car and drove about 100 miles to Lake Balaton with the suitcase in the trunk of the vehicle, police said. There, police said he disposed of the body in a wooded area outside the village of Szigliget before driving back to Budapest.
