US Woman Jailed For Mother's Murder In Bali Released From Prison
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Bali Suitcase Killer Case: In 2015, Heather Mack was handed a 10-year jail term while her boyfriend Tommy Schaefer got 18 years for the murder of Sheila von Wiese Mack.
An American woman convicted with her boyfriend of killing her mother and stuffing the body in a suitcase at a luxury Bali hotel was freed from prison on Friday.
In the notorious case, then teenager Heather 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 Indonesian holiday island.
Schaefer beat the 62-year-old victim to death with a fruit bowl during a heated argument at the five-star St. Regis resort, before the couple abandoned the suitcase containing the battered body in a taxi and fled.
Mack, who was pregnant at the time of the crime, was found guilty on a lesser charge of assisting in the murder.
