Heather Mack Pleads Guilty of Killing Mom, Stuffing Body in a Suitcase in Bali

LOVE MURDER

Jessie Pray and Andie Cassette

True Crime, Comedy

4.6 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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In 2014, Heather Mack and her then-boyfriend murdered her mother in Bali, and stuffed her body in a suitcase. She was eventually arrested and convicted in Bali. She was recently extradited to the US and last week pleaded guilty to her role in the crime. Sources: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/06/16/heather-mack-guilty-sheila-von-wiese-mack-murder/70331001007/ https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/sheila-von-wiese-heather-mack-suitcase-killer-b2360169.html https://people.com/heather-mack-suitcase-killer-everything-to-know-7509623 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/heather-mack-trial-bali-suitcase-killer-b2358841.html

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0:00.0	Welcome back to Love Murder Current Affairs, our show about the cases of love gone fatally
0:12.7	wrong that are in the news right now.
0:15.6	Today, we are covering a story that you might have heard about.
0:18.7	It's been in and out of the news for nine years at this point, but recently came to
0:22.9	an even more final conclusion.
0:25.8	In August 2014, the world was transfixed about the story of an American woman who had been
0:31.4	killed while on vacation in Bali, Indonesia.
0:35.2	It wasn't just that the story had international flair.
0:39.1	It had some seriously gory details.
0:42.0	The body of the woman had been stuffed in a suitcase and left in a taxi.
0:47.0	More than that, it appeared that the perpetrator had actually been the victim's own daughter.
0:53.6	To understand how this all happened, we have to go back to the beginning.
0:57.8	James Mack was a well-known musician and composer who had been part of the Chicago Jazz
1:02.1	scene throughout the second half of the 20th century.
1:05.1	In 1995, he had a daughter with Sheila and Von Weiss, his 22-years-yunger second-life.
1:11.8	Things were not always easy at the Mack household.
1:14.6	In 2001, the family went on a royal Caribbean cruise in the Mediterranean.
1:19.5	During the vacation, James Mack suffered a foot injury.
1:22.7	The ship's doctor allegedly failed to provide adequate medical treatment, and Mack was ultimately
1:27.6	left partially paralyzed.
1:29.6	Mack would go on to sue royal Caribbean for the incident.
1:32.9	In 2004, police were called to the Mack residence because children from James's previous
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