Feds seek 28 year sentence for Heather Mack’s role in mom’s Bali murder, stuffing body in suitcase

Federal prosecutors are for Heather Mack, the Illinois woman who pleaded guilty to helping murder her mother in Bali in 2014 and stuffing the body in a suitcase. Mack was arrested in August 2014 after the body of 62 year old Sheila von Wiese Mack, a wealthy Chicago socialite, was found inside the trunk of a taxi at the St.

Regis Bali Resort. The gruesome case, which generated headlines across the globe, became known as A court in Indonesia sentenced Mack to 10 years in prison. She was after serving seven years at the Kerobokan Female Prison in Bali’s capital city Denpasar. She was deported back to the U.S. and arrested shortly after her plane landed at Chicago’s O’Hare Airport.

Last June, Mack to one count of conspiring to kill her mother with her then boyfriend, Tommy Schaefer, to get access to a $1.5 million trust fund. The plea agreement called for a sentence of no more than 28 years. In a filing late on Wednesday, federal prosecutors requested the full 28 years, saying the sentence “is warranted and sufficient, but not greater than necessary to serve a just and appropriate punishment for Mack’s heinous crime.” They also seek a maximum fine of $250,000, about $260,000 in restitution to her mother’s estate, and five years of supervised release.

Mack’s lawyers are seeking a 15 year sentence, with credit for the time she spent in the Bali prison. She is scheduled to be sentenced on Wednesday..