
Friend of slain Chicago socialite fears Heather Mack's young daughter will be used as pawn for profit
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A longtime friend of murdered Chicago socialite Sheila von Wiese-Mack is reacting after Bali “suitcase killer” Heather Mack pleaded guilty to new federal charges Wednesday.
Heather Mack, now 26, was arrested by the FBI at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport on Wednesday as she was newly indicted on one count of conspiracy to kill in a foreign country, one count of conspiracy to commit foreign murder of a U.S. national, and one count of obstruction. in this Tuesday, April 21, 2015 file photo, Heather Mack of Chicago, center, is escorted by police officers as she arrives in the courtroom for her sentencing hearing at a district court in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia. (AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati) In this Tuesday, April 21, 2015, file photo, Heather Mack of Chicago, center, is mobbed by reporters as he arrives in the courtroom for her sentencing hearing at a district court in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia. (AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati, File) Heather Mack of Chicago, center, is escorted by immigration officers to Immigration detention center in Jimbaran, Bali, Indonesia on Friday, Oct. 29, 2021. Indonesian authorities on Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2021, announced that Mack, an American woman convicted of helping to kill her mother on Indonesia's tourist island of Bali in 2014, was preparing to leave island to be deported to the United States after serving seven years of a 10-year sentence. ((AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati, File))
In her first U.S. court appearance seven years after allegedly helping her now ex-boyfriend, Tommy Schaefer, kill her mother and stuff von Wiese-Mack’s body into a suitcase at the St. Regis Bali Resort, Mack pleaded not guilty to the charges. She had been already prosecuted and convicted in the 2014 killing in Indonesia and gave birth to her and Schaefer’s daughter, Stella, while still incarcerated there.