Heather Mack and her boyfriend Tommy Schaefer, each from Chicago, have been accused of murdering Mack’s mom, Sheila von Wiese-Mack, whose physique was later present in a suitcase.
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Indonesia freed and deported an American man on Tuesday (February 25, 2026) after he spent 11 years in jail for the premeditated homicide of his then-girlfriend’s mom on the vacationer island of Bali.
Tommy Schaefer was sentenced to 18 years in jail for the 2014 homicide of Sheila von Wiese-Mack, the mom of Heather Mack, throughout a luxurious trip in a case also referred to as the Bali “suitcase homicide.” Schafer was deported again to the USA from Bali Worldwide Airport on Tuesday (February 25, 2026) night after serving his sentence and receiving various remissions for good behaviour, mentioned Felucia Sengky Ratna, head of the Bali Regional Workplace of the Directorate Common of Immigration, in an announcement.
The badly battered physique of the 62-year-old von Wiese-Mack, a rich Chicago socialite, was discovered contained in the trunk of a taxi parked on the upscale St. Regis Bali Resort in August 2014. Heather Mack, who was nearly 19 and some weeks pregnant on the time of the killing, and her then-21-year-old boyfriend, Schaefer, have been arrested on the island a day after the physique was discovered.
Mack served seven years of a 10-year jail sentence in Bali for serving to to kill her mom and was deported in October 2021.
She was additionally sentenced to 26 years in jail in Chicago in January 2024, after she pleaded responsible to serving to kill her mom and stuffing the physique in a suitcase throughout their trip.
Revealed – February 25, 2026 04:03 pm IST