Request for Minimal Sentence: Heather Mack’s Lawyers Seek 15-Year Term for Involvement in Bali Suitcase Murder
CHICAGO (AP) — Heather Mack, a native of Oak Park, Illinois, is seeking the minimum sentence of 15 years in prison for her involvement in the murder of her mother during a vacation to Bali. Mack’s lawyers are also urging the judge to credit her for the nearly 10 years she has already served in an Indonesian prison. Back in 2015, Mack was convicted for assisting her boyfriend in killing her mother and then disposing of her dismembered body in a suitcase. Since November 2021, she has been incarcerated at the downtown Metropolitan Correctional Center. … Read more