article_snippet: (right), 19, and Tommy Schaefer (second from left), 21, sit in the court room in front of what is believed to be the suitcase they are accused of using to hide the body of von Wiese-Mack .
article_snippet: Mack badly beaten body was found in a suitcase in the trunk of a taxi at the hotel .
article_snippet: Speaking through an interpreter, boyfriend Tommy Schaefer said Mack asked Mack to bring a metal fruit bowl, which Mack hid under Mack shirt as a 'precaution'.
article_snippet: Asked by a judge why it was hidden, boyfriend Tommy Schaefer answered that boyfriend Tommy Schaefer was not sure whether boyfriend Tommy Schaefer would use it or not to protect boyfriend Tommy Schaefer.
article_snippet: von Wiese-Mackbludgeoned body was folded in half and stuffed into a suitcase with bloody sheets.
article_snippet: a suitcase was later found in a taxi at the posh St. Regis Hotel in August.