Picture: Heather Mack being deported. Credit score: Antara
American citizen Heather Lois Mack, who was one of many convicted killers of her organic mom in Bali in 2014, arrived again in Chicago, yesterday, after being deported from Indonesia. On arrival she was instantly arrested by native authorities.
Quoted from the US Division of Justice web site, it was acknowledged in Detik.com that Mack faces fees of conspiracy to homicide abroad, fees of conspiracy to homicide a US citizen, and fees of obstruction.
Mack is scheduled to seem in a Chicago court docket at the moment. If convicted, she faces a most sentence of life imprisonment for fees one and two, and 20 years in jail for counts three and a high-quality of as much as $250,000.
In 2017, a US jury discovered Mack and her boyfriend of the time, Tommy Schaefer deliberate to kill Von Wiese-Mack earlier than they left for Bali. It was discovered Schaefer had requested her cousin, Ryan Bibbs, find out how to kill her mom.
The US Division of Justice mentioned on the time that Mack requested Bibbs if he knew of a hitman who may kill her mom. Mack pleaded responsible in December 2016 to at least one rely of conspiracy to commit the overseas homicide of a US citizen.
Mack was formally deported from Bali together with her daughter with the initials ES on Tuesday (2/11) beneath tight safety from the Denpasar police and the FBI via I Gusti Ngurai Rai Worldwide Airport.
Head of the Regional Workplace of the Ministry of Regulation and Human Rights Bali, Jamaruli Manihuru mentioned Mack and her son shall be placed on a deterrence listing with the Immigration Division.
Based on Jamaruli, it was proposed to be placed on a life-long deterrence listing, whereas, her son, ES, was proposed to be placed on the deterrence listing for six months.
“Heather Lois Mack was confirmed to have violated Article 75 of the Republic of Indonesia Regulation Quantity 6 of 2011 regarding Immigration together with Article 340 of the Prison Code on Homicide,” he mentioned.
The Case
Mack got here to Bali on August 4, 2014 for a 3-week trip in Bali and Lombok.
Mack was arrested by the Kuta Police for the alleged homicide of his organic mom, Sheila von Wiese-Mack, on the Saint Regis Resort, The Nusa Dua tourism space.
On August 11, 2014 Mack’s boyfriend Tommy Schaefer got here to the resort.
“There was a commotion between Tommy Schaefer and Sheila von Wiese-Mack, Heather Lois Mack’s mom. The commotion was triggered by Sheila von Wiese-Mack discovering out Heather Lois Mack was pregnant,” defined Jamaruli. There was additionally hypothesis the homicide was allegedly dedicated to achieve management of Mack’s $1.5 million belief fund.
Through the ensuing combat, Tommy Schaefer hits Sheila von Wiese-Mack till she handed out and lay in mattress. It was suspected that the mom was injured within the nostril and died as a result of the blood flowed into the interior organs, blocking her respiratory.
Schaefer testified at his trial that von Wiese-Mack was offended when she realized about her daughter’s being pregnant and tried to strangle him, prompting him to strike her with a steel fruit bowl.
“Discovering that her mom had died, Heather Lois Mack took the initiative to place her physique in a suitcase and take it away,” mentioned Jamaruli.
Based on press studies of the time Mack helped Schaefer stuff her mom’s physique into the suitcase by sitting on it to allow Schaefer to shut it. They then positioned the suitcase within the trunk of the taxi on the foyer of the St Regis resort and informed the motive force they have been going to take a look at and would return, however they by no means did, prosecutors mentioned. The bloodied physique was found and the couple have been arrested the following day.
Mack acquired a sentence of 10 years in jail for violating Article 340 of the Prison Code on Homicide within the Denpasar District Court docket (PN) on July 9, 2015. Schaefer remains to be serving his 18 yr sentence in Kerobokan jail.
Whereas in Kerobokan Jail, Mack gave start to a daughter with the initials ES on March 17, 2015.