The 31-year-old victim arrived in Hungary as a tourist and disappeared after visiting a Budapest pub on Tuesday.

Local police officers in the 6th district identified a 37-year-old Irish man, known as LTM, as a suspect and arrested him in front of a flat in the 7th district.

The man was heard on murder charges and he admitted to his act. He also took police officers to the scene where he hid the victim's body.

Police have initiated the Irish citizen's detention.

According to tenyek.hu they met in Szimpla Kert, a popular Budapest ruin pub. They danced there and then visited several downtown Budapest pubs. Finally, they went to the Irish man’s apartment where, during sexual intercourse, he killed her.

Tények wrote that all the evidence points to murder, not an accident as the Irish man claims. He arrived in Budapest a week earlier as a tourist.

Police.hu report:

Budapest Metropolitan Police were looking for a 31-year-old American woman who disappeared from a Budapest nightclub on 5 November 2024.

The 6th District Police Department was conducting the missing person procedure, so the investigators and the Fugitive Search Division obtained footage from all available CCTV cameras in the neighbourhood, and noticed a man with whom the missing girl was seen together in several nightclubs.

Suspicious circumstances in connection with her disappearance led the investigators believe that the possibility that the American girl became the victim of a crime could not be ruled out.

The unidentified man was arrested at his rented apartment in District VII. in the evening of 7 November.

Given the fact that after the arrest further evidence was found which gave rise to the suspicion of murder, the Homicide Division launched an investigation, and in the course of 24 hours the following was established:

The 31-year-old American girl had arrived in Hungary as a tourist. She met an Irish man, a couple years her senior, in a nightclub and together they visited another nightclub, where they danced and became closer. After she had decided to go to his rented apartment in the 7th district, they had gotten intimate, and he killed her in the process.

The perpetrator then tried to cover up the murder; so he cleaned his apartment and hid the girl's body in the wardrobe cabinet while he went out to buy a suitcase.

He then put the victim's body in the suitcase, rented a car and drove to Lake Balaton with the suitcase in the trunk.

He hid his victim in the woods, in an area outside Szigliget and then drove back to Budapest, where he was captured and arrested.

Investigators from the Homicide  Division questioned the 37-year-old Irish citizen with the initials LTM as a suspect for murder. He confessed to killing the woman, but claimed it was an accident. After his interrogation, the suspect also showed the detectives where he had hidden the body. He was taken into custody and his arrest was initiated.

The investigation also revealed that after the murder, the 37-year-old man had searched the Internet for the phrases "Do pigs really eat dead bodies?", "Texas woman killed by a wild boar. ", "Wild boar sighting in Lake Balaton coastal towns", "What does a corpse smell like after it decomposes", "Getting rid of the smell of rotting meat ", Budapest webcams", "What happens after a person is reported missing", "How do the police handle missing person cases?", "How reliable is the police in Budapest?"   

Update:

Police crime scene photographs show a rolling suitcase, articles of clothing including a pair of fleece-lined boots and a handbag next to a credit card bearing Mackenzie Michalski’s name.

Ms Michalski, who went by “Kenzie”, was a nurse practitioner who is said to have been “a beautiful and compassionate young woman”. At a candlelight vigil in Budapest on Saturday, Kenzie’s father gave comment to those who gathered, wearing a baseball cap that he said he had received as a gift from his daughter.

Kenzie had visited Budapest before, and called it her “happy place”, her father said. “The history, she just loved it and she was just so relaxed here,” he said. “This was her city.”

Source: 
MTI - The Hungarian News Agency, founded in 1881.

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