Indonesia deports Bali ‘suitcase murder’ convict, US national Heather Mack
- The 25-year-old, convicted as a pregnant teenager of helping to kill her mother at a luxury hotel, was released from prison last week
- Details of the grisly 2014 killing shocked the holiday island, after the 62-year-old victim’s remains were found stuffed in a blood-soaked suitcase
Immigration officials escorted her to Bali’s airport on Tuesday for a flight to Jakarta, where she later departed for Chicago.
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Bali ‘suitcase killer’ Heather Mack granted early release from prison and to be deported to the US
In a case dubbed the “suitcase murder”, Mack was handed a 10-year jail term in 2015 while her boyfriend Tommy Schaefer got 18 years for the murder of Chicago socialite Sheila von Wiese Mack on the holiday island of Bali.
Schaefer – the father of Mack’s child – beat the 62-year-old victim to death with a fruit bowl during an argument at the five-star St. Regis resort.
The couple then stuffed the woman’s body into a suitcase and tried to flee with it in a taxi, but quickly abandoned the blood-soaked luggage.
Mack, who was pregnant at the time of the crime, was found guilty on a lesser charge of assisting in the murder.