A women who helped put her dead mother’s body into a suitcase was released from an Indonesian prison to return to the U.S.
An American woman who was convicted of helping kill her mother in Bali is returning to the U.S. after spending seven years in an Indonesian prison. Heather Mack,26, of Chicago and who was 19 at the time of her mother’s death, was seen on a hotel surveillance camera having a heated argument with her then-boyfriend, Tommy Schaefer, moments before the killing, Bali police reported at the time. Schaefer testified in court that Mack’s mother, wealthy socialite Sheila von Wiese-Mack, found out that Mack was pregnant and insulted the couple, leading to an altercation in which von Wiese-Mack strangled Schaefer. Schaefer then hit her several times with a fruit bowl. The prosecution said Mack was involved by helping stuff her mother’s body into a suitcase. Her mother’s body was found in the suitcase at St.
