The Latest Breaking News from Sheila von WieseMack

Bali ‘suitcase murder’ convict apologises as he is deported to US

Tommy Schaefer to face Chicago court after deportation from Indonesia

The Independent UK · Feb 25

Woman gets 26 years for helping kill her mother in Bali and stuffing body in suitcase

Heather Mack, who pleaded guilty to helping kill her own mother and stuffing the body in a suitcase during a luxury vacation in Bali in 2014, was sentenced in Chicago.

WEKU · Jan 17, 2024

‘Suitcase killer’ Heather Mack pleads for leniency in US over mother’s Bali murder

Heather Mack and her boyfriend Tommy Schaefer murdered her mother Sheila von Wiese-Mack at a luxury Bali resort in 2014

The Independent UK · Jan 15, 2024

Heather Mack’s mother told police she feared her daughter would kill her. They were powerless to prevent it

Behind the headlines about the so-called “Suitcase Killer” is a tragic story of a mother who endured years of domestic violence at the hands of her child. A retired police officer tells Rachel Sharp how authorities were helpless to save her

The Independent UK · Jun 16, 2023

Heather Mack’s family reacts to ‘mastermind’ killer’s guilty plea for mother’s 2014 murder in Bali

On 12 August 2014, Mack and her then-boyfriend Tommy Schaefer bludgeoned Sheila von Wiese-Mack to death with the metal handle of a fruit stand and shoved her body in a suitcase at the luxury 5-star St. Regis resort in Bali

The Independent UK · Jun 16, 2023

Heather Mack, convicted in Bali of killing mother, set to plead guilty in US

The daughter of an American woman whose body was found stuffed inside a suitcase at an Indonesian resort island is scheduled to appear in Chicago federal court to change her plea to guilty on charges she helped kill her mother in Bali nine years ago

The Independent UK · Jun 16, 2023

Cook County judge names Heather Mack’s cousin guardian of Mack’s child

The future of Mack’s 7-year-old daughter has been up in the air ever since her arrival in the United States. Custody was decided by a bench trial that began in September and ended Tuesday.

Chicago Sun-Times · Feb 21, 2023

Heather Mack denied bond in Chicago federal case stemming from mother’s 2014 slaying in Bali as judge finds ‘plenty of reason’ to consider her a danger

CHICAGO — Chicago native Heather Mack has been behind bars since the day her mother’s bludgeoned body was discovered nearly 8 1/2 years ago, stuffed in a suitcase in the Bali resort where they’d been vacationing.

Chicago Tribune · Dec 8, 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

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