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FILE – A photo of Budapest’s Freedom Square on November 30, 2019. Photo: FOX Television Stations

An American woman who was on vacation in Budapest was killed this week, Hungarian authorities said.

The victim, Mackenzie Michalski, 31, of Portland, Oregon, was reported missing on November 5 after she was last seen at a nightclub in central Budapest.

Hungarian authorities launched a missing person investigation and began reviewing security footage of local nightclubs and spotted Michalski at several clubs with a man later identified as the suspect. People Magazine reported that friends had photos of him at the popular ruin bar Szimpla Kert.

FILE – Nov. 29, 2019 photo showing the main bar area of ​​Szimpla Kert, a popular “ruin bar” in Budapest, Hungary. Photo: FOX Television Stations

Michalski has since been reported dead, and on November 7, a 37-year-old Irish national was detained by police.

Investigators said Michalski and the suspect met at a nightclub and danced before going to the man’s rented apartment. Police said the man killed Michalski during a “close encounter.”

The suspect, identified by the police with the initials LTM, confessed to the murder but said it was an accident. Police said the suspect tried to cover up his crime by cleaning the apartment and hiding Michalski’s body in a closet, buying a suitcase and placing her body inside.

He then rented a car and drove to Lake Balaton, about 90 miles southwest of Budapest, where he dumped the body in a wooden field outside the town of Szigliget.

In the video released by the police, the suspect is seen directing the authorities to the place where he left the body.

Police said that before being caught, the suspect searched the Internet for topics such as how to dispose of a body, police procedures in missing persons cases, whether pigs actually eat corpses and the presence of wild boars in the Lake Balaton area.

He is also said to have conducted an internet search investigating the competence of the Budapest police.

Who was Mackenzie Michalski?

Mackenzie Michalski was a 31-year-old American woman who was murdered while on vacation in Hungary.

He lived in Portland, Oregon and was originally from Fredonia, New York. a GoFundMe page. According to Providence St. He was working as a neurosurgery practitioner in St. Vincent. A local report from FOX 12 KTVV.

“Kenzie’s” co-workers would describe her as kind and loving, the hospital said in a statement to KTVV.

According to a post by the administrator of the “Find Mackenzie Michalski” Facebook group created on Nov. 7, Michalski “will forever be remembered as a beautiful and caring young woman.”

Michalski’s family traveled to Hungary after his disappearance and attended a candlelight vigil in Budapest on Saturday.

His father told The Associated Press that Michalski had visited Budapest before and called it his “happy place.”

“He loved the history and felt very comfortable here,” he said. “This was his city.”