In an emotional scene this week, Heather Mack, who was convicted of murdering her mother in 2014 and stuffing her body in a suitcase, handed over her 2-year-old daughter to a temporary caretaker until she serves the remainder of her sentence at Indonesia’s Kerobokan Prison.
Mack has been behind bars for the grisly killing since 2014 but was allowed to take care of her daughter, Stella, until she turned 2 years old on Friday.
The caretaker — an Australian-Balinese woman named Oshar Putu Melody Suartama, who befriended Mack shortly after she was arrested — has agreed to care for Stella until 2025, when Mack is scheduled for release.
Mack has been behind bars for the grisly killing since 2014 but was allowed to take care of her daughter, Stella, until she turned 2 years old on Friday.
The caretaker — an Australian-Balinese woman named Oshar Putu Melody Suartama, who befriended Mack shortly after she was arrested — has agreed to care for Stella until 2025, when Mack is scheduled for release.
- 3/17/2017
- by Greg Hanlon and Johnny Dodd
- PEOPLE.com
The mother of Heather Mack‘s ex-boyfriend is petitioning a Chicago court for guardianship of the pair’s young daughter, a source close to Mack confirms to People.
Mack and her ex-boyfriend, Tommy Schaefer, were convicted in the 2014 murder of Mack’s mother at an Indonesian luxury resort and stuffing her body in a suitcase. Under Indonesian law, the pair’s daughter, Stella Schaefer – who was born in prison during Mack and Schaefer’s 2015 murder trial – is allowed to live with her mother at Bali’s Kerobokan penitentiary until she turns two years old on March 17.
The Feb. 9 court filing by Kia Walker,...
Mack and her ex-boyfriend, Tommy Schaefer, were convicted in the 2014 murder of Mack’s mother at an Indonesian luxury resort and stuffing her body in a suitcase. Under Indonesian law, the pair’s daughter, Stella Schaefer – who was born in prison during Mack and Schaefer’s 2015 murder trial – is allowed to live with her mother at Bali’s Kerobokan penitentiary until she turns two years old on March 17.
The Feb. 9 court filing by Kia Walker,...
- 2/13/2017
- by Johnny Dodd
- PEOPLE.com
Heather Mack is reportedly taking full responsibility for the brutal murder of her mother, whose battered body was discovered stuffed in a suitcase in the trunk of a taxi in August 2014.
In a series of three videos uploaded to her alleged YouTube channel titled “Confession,” the now-21-year-old gave her latest account of what took place in Bali, Indonesia. Mack’s boyfriend, Tommy Schaefer, 22, confessed to the killing during the couple’s trial in 2015, in which they both faced death by firing squad. Schaefer ultimately received an 18-year sentence and Mack was sentenced to 10 years in Bali’s infamous Kerobokon prison,...
In a series of three videos uploaded to her alleged YouTube channel titled “Confession,” the now-21-year-old gave her latest account of what took place in Bali, Indonesia. Mack’s boyfriend, Tommy Schaefer, 22, confessed to the killing during the couple’s trial in 2015, in which they both faced death by firing squad. Schaefer ultimately received an 18-year sentence and Mack was sentenced to 10 years in Bali’s infamous Kerobokon prison,...
- 2/5/2017
- by Blake Bakkila
- PEOPLE.com
The attorney for pregnant Chicago teenager Heather Mack, who was arrested in Bali after the bloody body of her mother was found stuffed in a suitcase at a luxury resort, claims his client hasn't been allowed to meet privately with her lawyers and is "emotionally and mentally drained" after two weeks in an Indonesian jail. "She has gotten worse in terms of her emotional and mental state," attorney Michael Elkin told the Daily Mail. "She is very scared by what is going on … and told me, 'I don't know how long I can take this.' " The teen's attorney has...
- 8/28/2014
- by Johnny Dodd, @Johnny_Dodd
- PEOPLE.com
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