In this file photo taken on April 15, 2015, Heather Mack of the US waits for her court trial at a holding cell in Denpasar, Indonesia's Bali island. The American woman convicted with her boyfriend of killing her mother and stuffing the body in a suitcase at a luxury Bali hotel was to be freed from prison early, her lawyer said on Monday (Aug 23, 2021). - AFP
BALI, Aug 23, 2021 (AFP): An American woman convicted with her boyfriend of killing her mother and stuffing the body in a suitcase at a luxury Bali hotel is to be freed from prison early, her lawyer said Monday.
In 2015, teenager Heather Mack was handed a 10-year jail term while her boyfriend Tommy Schaefer got 18 years for the murder of Chicago socialite Sheila von Wiese Mack on the Indonesian holiday island.
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