July 9, 2026 / 12:42 PM EDT
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A Hungarian court convicted and sentenced an Irish citizen to 14 years in prison for brutally killing an American tourist during sex before dumping her body in the woods in 2024.The victim, 31-year-old Mackenzie Michalski from Portland, Oregon, was in Hungary on vacation and reported missing on Nov. 5, 2024, after she was last seen at a nightclub in central Budapest.Police launched a missing person investigation and reviewed security footage from local nightclubs where they observed Michalski, who went by "Kenzie," with a man later identified as the suspect in several of the clubs the night of her disappearance.The man, who police identified by the initials L.T.M. and was 37 at the time, was detained on Nov. 7, questioned and later confessed to the killing.Investigators said that Michalski and the suspect met at a nightclub and danced before leaving for the man's rented apartment. The man beat and strangled Michalski while they were engaged in an "intimate encounter," police said.
Photos showing Mackenzie Michalski, a 31-year-old American tourist who was murdered while on vacation, hang at a candlelight vigil in Budapest, Hungary, Nov. 9, 2024.
