The Heather Mack case
Heather Mack waits April 14, 2015, inside a holding cell before another day in her trial in the murder of her mother, Sheila von Wiese Mack, at the Denpasar District Court in Bali, Indonesia. (Sonny Tumbelaka, AFP/Getty Images)
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Sheila von Wiese-Mack’s body was discovered by Indonesian police Aug. 12, 2014, stuffed into a suitcase at a resort in Bali. Her daughter, Heather Mack, of Chicago, and Heather’s boyfriend, Tommy Schaefer, of Oak Park, were tried and found guilty in her murder.
Kia Walker leaves the Daley Center in Chicago on March 3, 2017, after a hearing in the case in which she is seeking guardianship of the daughter Heather Mack had with Walker’s son.
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Kia Walker, mother of Tommy Schaefer, who is serving an 18-year sentence in a Bali prison in for the murder of his girlfriend Heather Mack’s mother, speaks after a hearing at Cook County Circuit Court on Feb. 17, 2017, at the Daley Center in Chicago. Walker is seeking custody of Schaefer and Mack’s daughter Stella, whom the couple are allowed to raise in prison until age 2.
(Erin Hooley / Chicago Tribune)Heather Mack received a 10-year prison sentence after being found guilty of premeditated murder in her mother’s death. A three-judge panel in Bali, Indonesia, said they opted for leniency because Mack recently became a mother. (Sonny Tumbelaka, AFP/Getty Images)
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Heather Mack and her daughter before an April 21, 2015, appearance in Denpasar District Court in Indonesia. (Sonny Tumelaka, AFP/Getty Images)
Heather Mack and her daughter in a cell before an April 21, 2015, court appearance in Bali, Indonesia. (Sonny Tumbelaka, AFP/Getty Images)
Tommy Schaefer waits in the courtroom in Bali, Indonesia, on April 14, 2015. (Sonny Tumbelaka, AFP/Getty Images)
Heather Mack holds her baby as she waits April 14, 2015, inside a holding cell before another day in her trial in the killing of her mother, Sheila von Wiese Mack, at the Denpasar District Court in Bali, Indonesia. (Sonny Tumbelaka, AFP/Getty Images)
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Heather Mack looks on as a prosecutor uncuffs Tommy Schaefer during a court hearing in Denpasar District Court in Bali, Indonesia, on March 11, 2015. Mack and Schaefer are charged in the slaying of Mack’s mother. (Sonny Tumbelaka, AFP/Getty Images)
Heather Mack and Tommy Schaefer head for a courtroom in Bali, Indonesia, on March 11, 2015. (Sonny Tumbelaka, AFP/Getty Images)
Heather Mack and Tommy Schaefer are escorted from jail to a van at Kerobokan prison in Denpasar on Indonesia’s resort island of Bali on Feb. 26, 2015. (Sonny Tumbelaka, AFP/Getty Images)
Heather Mack and Tommy Schaefer walk to a prison van on Bali, Indonesia, on Feb. 4, 2015. (Sonny Tumbelaka, AFP/Getty Images)
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Heather Mack, right, and her boyfriend, Tommy Schaefer, walk to a holding cell at the Denpasar District Court in Bali, Indonesia, on Jan. 21, 2015. The two are charged in the slaying of Mack’s mother, Sheila von Weise-Mack. (Sonny Tumbelaka, AFP/Getty Images)
Tommy Schaefer, who is charged with murder, appears in court in Denpasar on Indonesia’s island of Bali on Jan. 21, 2015. (Sonny Tumbelaka, AFP/Getty Images)
Heather Mack, who is charged in the slaying of her mother, waits in a holding cell at Denpasar District Court in Bali, Indonesia, on Jan. 21, 2015. (Sonny Tumbelaka, AFP/Getty Images)
Tommy Schaefer, accused of killing his girlfriend’s mother, waits in a holding cell at Denpasar District Court in Indonesia on Jan. 21, 2015. (Sonny Tumbelaka, AFP/Getty Images)
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Tommy Schaefer appears in court in Denpasar on the island of Bali on Jan. 21, 2015. Attorneys for Schaefer and his girlfriend, Heather Mack, argue that indictments in the murder case are inaccurate and should be tossed. (Sonny Tumbelaka, AFP/Getty Images)
Tommy Schaefer, charged with murder in the death of Sheila von Wiese-Mack, appears in a Denpasar courtroom in Bali, Indonesia, on Jan. 21, 2015. (Sonny Tumbelaka, AFP/Getty Images)