Heather Mack and Tommy Schaefer were both convicted in the Bali murder of Mack's mother, Sheila von Wiese-Mack.
Mack was found guilty and served time for killing her mother from Oak Park and stuffing the woman's body in a suitcase in Bali.Heather Mack's attorneys asked a federal judge to release her from jail while she awaits a summer trial on charges she conspired to kill her mother in what was dubbed the "Bali suitcase murder."
The motion filed Monday with Judge Matthew Kennelly says Mack has been jailed in "extremely difficult COVID conditions." The attorneys wrote she poses no flight risk, has no passport and no desire to travel. Mack volunteered to return to the U.S. to face the new charges upon finishing a "lengthy" seven-year sentence in Bali, her attorneys wrote."Apart from the long-standing conflict that Ms. Mack had with her mother prior to her mother's death, Ms.
Tommy Schaefer, with whom Mack had a child, is serving an Indonesian prison sentence for von Wiese-Mack's murder. The motion filed Monday could complicate the custody battle for Mack's 7-year-old daughter. Last week, a Cook County judge ordered Mack's daughter, Estelle Schaefer, into the temporary care of a maternal cousin of Mack from Colorado. The order was against Mack's own wishes. She had asked for her daughter to be cared for by her grandmother in the Rockford area.The video in the player above is from an earlier report.
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