Bali slaying, stuffing of mum in suitcase: Heather Mack to be sentenced Jan 17

Heather Mack pleaded guilty in June 2023 to one count of conspiring to kill her mother with her then-boyfriend to gain access to a US$1.5 million trust fund. - AP

CHICAGO: Sentencing is scheduled Wednesday (Jan 17) in Chicago for an American woman who pleaded guilty to helping kill her mother and stuffing the body in a suitcase during a luxury vacation at a Bali resort nearly a decade ago.

Federal prosecutors are recommending a 28-year prison sentence for Heather Mac (pic), considerably more time behind bars than defence lawyers are expected to ask when she is sentenced for conspiring to kill Sheila von Wiese-Mack in 2014.