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Heather Mack ordered to stay in jail pending trial

A federal judge rejected Mack’s request to be released pending trial. It would have been Mack’s first taste of freedom since her mother’s body was discovered in a bloody suitcase left outside a posh Indonesian resort in 2014.

Chicago Sun-Times · Dec 8, 2022

Heather Mack says she wants Stella back if judge lets her out of jail while awaiting trial

The future of Heather Mack’s daughter has been uncertain since her arrival with Mack in the United States a little more than a year ago. Mack spent seven years in Indonesian custody for helping murder her own mother, Sheila von Wiese-Mack.

Chicago Sun-Times · Nov 29, 2022

Heather Mack’s daughter ordered into custody of her mother’s cousin — after Mack says she should go to grandmother

Estelle Schaefer, 7, has become the subject of a bitter custody battle before Cook County Judge Stephanie Miller.

Chicago Sun-Times · Nov 18, 2022

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Caretaker for Heather Mack’s daughter says she signed deal for her life story, tried to take it back

Mack’s daughter is at the center of an ongoing bench trial. A bitter custody dispute has swirled around the girl ever since she arrived here with her mother last fall.

Chicago Sun-Times · Oct 4, 2022

Trial kicks off in custody battle over Heather Mack’s daughter

Four people are seeking custody of 7-year-old Estelle Schaefer, known as Stella, in the trial before Cook County Judge Stephanie Miller. Mack and her onetime boyfriend, Tommy Schaefer, are charged in federal court with plotting the overseas murder of Mack’s mother, Sheila von Wiese-Mack.

Chicago Sun-Times · Sep 6, 2022

Heather Mack’s daughter back in care of woman who raised her in Indonesia

Oshar Suartama confirmed for a judge Friday that she had arrived in Illinois and had reunited with 7-year-old Estelle Schaefer, known as Stella. The child’s therapist has told the judge “there’s no question” Stella sees that woman “as her mother and the primary caretaker in her life.”

Chicago Sun-Times · Jun 24, 2022

Woman who raised Heather Mack’s child in Indonesia could care for her here — if she makes it in time

It wasn’t clear Friday whether Oshar Suartama could get to Chicago before Stella’s current caretaker, Vanessa Favia, has to relinquish custody. If she can’t, the child could wind up with Diana Roque Ellis of Beverly Hills, a friend of Mack’s murdered mother.

Chicago Sun-Times · Jun 18, 2022

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Heather Mack wants daughter to stay in U.S., live with California friend of her murdered mother, new court filing claims

SNEED SCOOP: In a hand-written statement filed in court Wednesday, Mack says she no longer wants her 7-year-old daughter to go to Indonesia while Mack faces new charges in the Bali murder of Oak Parker Sheila von Wiese-Mack.

Chicago Sun-Times · Jun 15, 2022

Custody of Heather Mack’s daughter back up in the air: Could she spend the summer in Bali?

Mack, who is being held in Chicago’s downtown Metropolitan Correctional Center, has been at the center of an international legal saga ever since the gruesome discovery of her mother’s body inside a suitcase outside the St. Regis Bali Resort on Aug. 12, 2014.

Chicago Sun-Times · Jun 14, 2022

Heather Mack’s daughter should live with me, murdered mom’s friend says in revealing new court filing

SNEED EXCLUSIVE: Diana Ellis has made a move in Cook County court for Stella, 6, to come live with her in California. But the filing opens a window into the fraught relationship between Sheila von Wiese-Mack and her daughter before she was killed in Bali.

Chicago Sun-Times · Feb 18, 2022

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