Daughter Stuffs Mom's Body in Pricey Luggage at 5-Star Resort

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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🗓️ 1 September 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

A family vacation to Bali turns deadly. Sheila von Wiese-Mack is found bludgeoned to death inside a suitcase. The socialite's 25-year-old daughter Heather Mack and her 21-year-old then-boyfriend, Tommy Schaefer are charged and convicted by an Indonesian court. Police say Schaefer bludgeoned von Wiese-Mack with a bowl and then he and Mack stuffed her body into a suitcase and attempted to flee the scene. Heather Mack was pregnant at the time and gave birth to a daughter in prison. When she turned two, she was placed with a foster family in Bali. Now, Mack is being released from prison and will be deported. The mom must decide whether to bring the now 6-year-old girl with her back to Chicago or leave her with the only family she’s known. Mack says that she is nervous about returning to the States, and what could happen to her daughter, once she is exposed to the media attention surrounding her mother. Joining Nancy Grace Today:Wendy Patrick - California prosecutor, author “Red Flags” www.wendypatrickphd.com 'Today with Dr. Wendy' on KCBQ in San DiegoDr. Jorey Krawczyn - Police Psychologist, Adjunct Faculty with Saint Leo University; Research Consultant with Blue Wall Institute, Author: Operation S.O.S. - Practical Recommendations to Help “Stop Officer Suicide” (October 2021) bw-institute.comSheryl McCollum - Forensic Expert & Cold Case Investigative Research Institute Founder, ColdCaseCrimes.orgJoe Scott Morgan - Professor of Forensics Jacksonville State University, Author, "Blood Beneath My Feet", Featured on "The Piketon Massacre: Return to Pike County" on iHeartRadioKristy Mazurek - Emmy Award-winning Investigative Reporter, President of Successful Strategies PR and Crisis Communications Firm

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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, Apple Podcasts,
0:57.2	or wherever you get your podcasts.
1:06.2	A gorgeous young brunette beauty Heather Mack, age 25 says she is afraid to come back to the US
1:15.1	from Bali because of what her daughter, her little girl, might find out about mommy's reputation,
1:23.2	but it might say about her online. Well, you know what, Heather Mack? You should have thought about
1:28.8	that before you murdered your mother and stuffed her using body into a suitcase.
1:36.3	This says nobody asks, that's my advice. Don't worry about your reputation now. It's too late for
1:44.0	that, Heather Mack. You better be worried about hopefully getting out of jail someday from your
1:50.6	Bali prison cell.
1:52.0	Well, I'm afraid to tell you, Heather Mack is set to walk free. After brutally murdering her own
2:09.8	mother who had done nothing but take care of her doting on her, spoiling her whole life,
2:16.0	murderers her, stuffed her in a suitcase, leaves her out in front of hotel for the bellboy to find,
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