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'Suitcase Killer' Gets 26 Years
'Suitcase Killer' Gets 26 Years
Jan 17, 2024 5:40 PM CST

'Suitcase Killer' Gets 26 Years

Judge doesn't give Heather Mack credit for 7 years served in Indonesian prison

(Newser) - An Illinois woman who plotted to murder her mother in Bali in 2014 has been sentenced to 26 years in federal prison—with no credit for the seven years she served in an Indonesian prison. Heather Mack, 28, was arrested as soon as she returned to the US in 2021...

'Suitcase Killer' Arrested After Flying Back to US

Heather Mack faces federal charges in connection with mother's murder

(Newser) - After seven years in an Indonesian prison, Heather Mack returned home to Chicago Wednesday—and was promptly arrested. The 26-year-old, who was released early from a 10-year sentence for helping then-boyfriend Tommy Schaefer kill her mother in Bali in 2014, now faces federal charges in the US connected to the...

American in Bali 'Suitcase Murder' to Be Freed Years Early
US Woman in Bali
'Suitcase Murder'
Walks Free
UPDATED
Oct 29, 2021 12:34 AM CDT

US Woman in Bali 'Suitcase Murder' Walks Free

Heather Mack of Chicago was arrested for helping her boyfriend kill her mother

(Newser) - Update: The Chicago woman who, along with her then-boyfriend, murdered her mother on Bali in 2014 and stuffed her body in a suitcase walked free Friday after serving seven years of a 10-year sentence, the AP reports. Heather Mack, now 26, was escorted through a crush of reporters outside the...

Woman Whose Beau Stuffed Mom in Suitcase Alters Story

Heather Mack discusses the 2014 murder in series of YouTube videos

(Newser) - A Chicago woman imprisoned in Indonesia for the 2014 killing of her mother says in videos posted on YouTube that she acted alone and her boyfriend only helped her cover it up because she threatened him. In a series of three videos that were posted last week, 21-year-old Heather Mack...

Pair Guilty of Killing Mom, Stuffing Her in Suitcase

Bali convicts Chicago couple of battering woman's mom to death on vacation

(Newser) - An Indonesian court found an American couple guilty of premeditated murder and sentenced them to prison today in the death of the woman's mother on the resort island of Bali. The Denpasar District Court sentenced Tommy Schaefer to 18 years in prison and Heather Mack to 10 years for...

Teen's Beau Admits Murder of Mom Found in Suitcase

Daughter says she helped stuff mom's body, police say

(Newser) - Police say suspect Tommy Schaefer has admitted to murdering his girlfriend's mom, a month after her body was found stuffed in a bloody suitcase in Bali. Schaefer, who was arrested along with the victim's daughter, Heather Mack, confessed to killing Sheila von Wiese-Mack, 62, because "he was...

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