Chicago native Heather Mack was sentenced to 26 years in prison for murdering her mother and leaving her body in a suitcase stuffed in the trunk of a taxi while she and her boyfriend were on vacation to a five-star resort in Indonesia's luxury Bali island. He received a year's prison sentence. On Wednesday, he was sentenced to federal prison for his criminal scheme.
She had previously been convicted of murder in Indonesia and served seven years there before being deported to the United States.
Mack, 28, had pleaded guilty to conspiracy and his lawyers had asked for a sentence of no more than 15 years, not including time served in overseas prisons. Prosecutors had asked for a sentence of 28 years in prison.
A federal judge handed down the 26-year sentence at a sentencing hearing Wednesday afternoon. FOX 32 Chicago report. Mack and her boyfriend, Tommy Schaefer, hatched the murder plan via text message before ambushing Sheila von Wiese in her St. Regis hotel room while on vacation in Bali in 2014.
Chicago suitcase killer who killed mother during five-star vacation to paradise seeks credit for time served overseas
Heather Mack of Chicago is mobbed by reporters as she appears for her sentencing hearing at District Court in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia, on April 21, 2015. (AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati, File)
Mac flew on a vacation to the island with his mother. Schaefer arrived later on another flight without the victim's knowledge.
Schaefer then beat her mother to death with the metal handle of a fruit bowl, and Mack covered her mother's mouth to muffle her screams.
They attempted to clean the crime scene and also changed the hotel linens before stuffing Ms von Wiese into a suitcase, which was later found in the trunk of a taxi outside which had refused the couple a ride.
Sheila von Wiese Mack's body was discovered on August 12, 2014, stuffed into a bloody suitcase in the trunk of a taxi in front of the five-star St. Regis Hotel. (Sonny Tamberaka/AFP via Getty Images)
“The murder of von Wiese at the hands of defendant and Schaefer was vicious.” federal prosecutor he wrote in his sentencing memo last week. “Her evidence shows that von Wiese struggled to stay alive. This means that in the final moments of her life, she blamed her daughter for her death and that she It means that I realized that I am an only child.”
Prosecutors recovered text messages between Mack and Schaefer. orchestrated the murder She then fantasized about how she would spend the money she would inherit after her mother's death.
American woman pleads guilty to murdering her mother during a trip to Bali and hiding her body in a suitcase
On August 13, 2014, during an investigation at the police station in Nusa Dua, the Indonesian resort island of Bali, the battered body of an American tourist was discovered in a suitcase at a luxury hotel, and suspect Heather Mack (19) was escorted away. Police officer (center). Bali, a resort island in Indonesia. (Sonny Tamberaka/AFP via Getty Images)
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Mak was released after serving seven years of his 10-year sentence in Indonesia. deported to the United States, There, police arrested her as soon as she arrived. Schaefer remains in prison overseas.
