CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- Former Chicagoan Heather Mack, convicted of a role in the 2014 murder of her mother in Bali, is expected to be released early.
Heather Mack, who’s now 25, once faced the possibility of death by firing squad. But she was sentenced to serve 10 years in prison for her role in the beating death of her mother, Sheila von Wiese-Mack.
Seven years later, Mack is expected to be freed from a Bali prison in October, according to the Chicago Tribune, for good behavior.
Her then-boyfriend, Tommy Schaefer, now 28, was sentenced to 18 years. He admitted that he beat Sheila von Wiese-Mack, 62, to death with a heavy metal fruit bowl in August 2014. Her body was stuffed in a suitcase and left in a cab.
According to the Tribune, Schaefer testified during his murder trial in Indonesia that von Wiese-Mack became angry when he told her that Mack was pregnant with his child. Schaefer said he struck her with the handle of a heavy metal fruit bowl in self-defense.
But, emails revealed von Wiese-Mack was aware of her daughter’s pregnancy before the trip to Bali; and text message showed they plotted the crime for money. They called themselves "Bonnie and Clyde."
Heather Mack gave birth in prison to her daughter, Stella, in March 2015. Bali authorities allowed Stella to stay with Mack in prison until she turned 2. She has since been cared for by a family in Indonesia.
Her uncle, Bill Wiese, told the Tribune he believes the light sentence and her early release is due to bribery.
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