‘Suitcase Killer’ Heather Mack Admits Killing Her Mom
After eight years and a stint in an Indonesian jail, Heather Mack on Friday pleaded guilty to conspiring to fatally bludgeon her socialite mother and then stuffing her body in a suitcase in Bali.
Mack, 27, pleaded guilty in Illinois Federal Court to “conspiracy to kill a national of the United States”. The change of plea came about a month before Mack was set to stand trial for the August 2014 murder of her 62-year-old mother, Sheila von Weise-Mack. Sentencing will be December 18.
Prosecutors alleged that then-18 and pregnant Mack murdered von Weise-Mack with the metal handle of a fruit stand inside a five-star hotel room in Bali with the help of her boyfriend. To cover up a crime driven by a desire to tap into Mack’s $1.5 million inheritance, the couple, who referred to themselves as “Bonnie and Clyde,” stuffed von Weise-Mack’s body in a suitcase and left the luggage in the trunk of a taxi outside of the luxury hotel.