'Suitcase killer' pleads guilty in US to role in mom's murder in Indonesia's Bali

Heather Mack is escorted by Immigration guards to the immigration detention house in Jimbaran, on the resort island of Bali on October 29, 2021.Mack, known as the "suitcase killer" pleaded guilty June 16, 2023 to conspiracy to murder her mother, whose body was hidden in a piece of luggage after she was slain in Bali in 2014, the Department of Justice said. - AFP

WASHINGTON, June 16, 2023 (AFP): A US woman known as the "suitcase killer" pleaded guilty to conspiracy to murder her mother, whose body was hidden in a piece of luggage after she was slain in Bali in 2014, the Department of Justice said.

Heather Mack, 27, was arrested in 2021 upon her return to the United States after spending seven years in prison in Indonesia for the killing.