A 37-year-old Irishman has been arrested in connection with the murder of an American woman who was on holiday in Budapest, local police said.

The man was detained earlier this week in his rented apartment, Budapest police headquarters said in a translated post on Facebook on Saturday. They identified him with the initials LTM

Police said the suspect met the victim, Mackenzie Michalski, 31, at a Budapest nightclub. Authorities said the two danced and then went to the man’s apartment, according to the Facebook statement. Security footage showed Michalski and the suspect together before she disappeared Tuesday.

The suspect allegedly tried to cover up the murder, Budapest police said. He allegedly cleaned the apartment, put Michalski’s body in a suitcase and dumped the luggage in a wooded area near Lake Balaton.

He was arrested this week at his rented apartment, police said.

The man allegedly told investigators that Michalski’s death was an accident, police said in the Facebook post. Detectives also accused him of conducting Internet searches about whether wild boars eat human remains and how Budapest police investigate a missing person case.

in a video Shared by authorities, the man was seen being booked into jail and taking police to the wooded area and showing them where he hid the body.

Michalski was from Portland, Oregon. His father told him The Associated Press at a candlelight vigil in Budapest that he was “still overcome with emotion.”

“There was no reason for this to happen,” he said. “I’m still trying to understand what happened… I don’t know if I ever will.”

This story originally appeared on NBCNews.com.