Body Bags: Dead on a Bali Vacation

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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🗓️ 13 November 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Teen Heather Mack and her mother Sheila von Wiese-Mack plan a tropical vacation. They go to Bali to work on their relationship, but they're not the only ones. Heather Mack buys her boyfriend a ticket, using her mother's credit card. Within 10 hours of Tommy Schaefer's arrival, the 62-year-old socialite is dead. Von Wiese-Mack is bludgeoned to death by Schaeffer with a heavy fruit bowl, and her body stuffed inside a suitcase. The lovers and soon-to-be parents are charged and convicted. Tommy Schaefer is still in an Indonesian prison. Heather Mack served 7 years of her ten-year sentence and gave birth behind bars. She was recently released and expelled from Bali. Upon her arrival back in the U.S., Mack was taken into custody on multiple charges. Today, forensics expert and former death scene investigator Joseph Scott Morgan explains the carnage to Sheila von Wiese-Mack's body.

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0:00.0	I'm Cheryl McCollum, host of the brand new Cold Case Podcast, Zone 7.
0:04.1	We're going to be talking to family members, detectives, prosecutors, and nationally recognized
0:09.1	experts that are in my Zone 7. The group of professionals that I've called on
0:13.6	to help me work hundreds of cases you've heard of and thousands you haven't.
0:18.0	We are going to solve these cases own air together. Listen to Zone 7 on the I Heart Radio app,
0:25.2	the Apple Podcast app, or wherever you listen to your favorite podcast.
0:29.8	I'm Joseph Scott Morgan. I was the youngest medical legal death investigator in the country.
0:34.8	The world that I inhabited gave me insight into things that most of the general public
0:39.6	can't even begin to imagine, always having to view the app normal in the context of the normal,
0:45.7	to make them make sense if you will. When all is said and done, I was the voice of the dead.
0:51.5	Listen to Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan on the I Heart Radio app,
0:55.9	Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
1:09.0	Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan.
1:12.7	It's a given that any mother-daughter relationship is going to have good days and bad days,
1:28.0	ups and downs throughout their life together. But what would drive a daughter inner to an agreement?
1:34.8	The young man that she has supposedly fallen in love with, fly down to Bali, a 16-hour flight from
1:43.7	LA. Have that young man enter into a hotel room, pick up a large decorative bowl,
1:51.3	and beat that young woman's mother into oblivion. I'm Joseph Scott Morgan, and this is Body Bags.
2:04.8	Back with me again today is my good friend Jackie Howard, executive producer of Crime Stories
2:12.2	with Nancy Grace. Jackie, what do we have on this case? As you said, Joe, Heather Mack was serving
2:17.6	a sentence in Bali for her part in the death of her mother. Mack was prosecuted and convicted in
2:24.2	Indonesia over the 2014 killing of Sheila Von Weiss Mack at the St. Regis Bali Resort. After serving
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