The Chicago teen accused of the brutal murder of her mother, whose body was discovered stuffed in a suitcase last August at a luxury hotel in Bali, has been busy in recent days making phone calls from the prison where she's being held. Earlier this week, Heather Mack, 19, reportedly reached out to her hometown newspaper The Chicago Tribune and the office of a Cook County judge to maintain her innocence and express her frustration over the fact that her Indonesian criminal defense attorney has only received partial payment for his work on her case. Last month, a judged ordered the...
- 2/5/2015
- by Johnny Dodd, @Johnny_Dodd
- PEOPLE.com
The Chicago teen accused of the brutal murder of her mother, whose body was discovered stuffed in a suitcase last August at a luxury hotel in Bali, has been busy in recent days making phone calls from the prison where she's being held. Earlier this week, Heather Mack, 19, reportedly reached out to her hometown newspaper The Chicago Tribune and the office of a Cook County judge to maintain her innocence and express her frustration over the fact that her Indonesian criminal defense attorney has only received partial payment for his work on her case. Last month, a judged ordered the...
- 2/5/2015
- by Johnny Dodd, @Johnny_Dodd
- PEOPLE.com
Sometime in the coming weeks, prosecutors in Bali will decide how - or if - they will charge Americans Heather Mack and Tommy Schaefer, arrested in August after the battered body of Mack's mother was discovered stuffed in a suitcase in the trunk of a cab at a luxury resort on the island. If the Indonesian authorities determine that the killing of 62-year-old Chicago socialite Sheila von Weise-Mack was premeditated, her daughter - and Schaefer - could face execution by a 12-man firing squad. While declining to discuss the details about exactly what happened during the Aug. 12 murder, Mack's Chicago-based...
- 12/12/2014
- by Johnny Dodd, @Johnny_Dodd
- PEOPLE.com
Sometime in the coming weeks, prosecutors in Bali will decide how - or if - they will charge Americans Heather Mack and Tommy Schaefer, arrested in August after the battered body of Mack's mother was discovered stuffed in a suitcase in the trunk of a cab at a luxury resort on the island. If the Indonesian authorities determine that the killing of 62-year-old Chicago socialite Sheila von Weise-Mack was premeditated, her daughter - and Schaefer - could face execution by a 12-man firing squad. While declining to discuss the details about exactly what happened during the Aug. 12 murder, Mack's Chicago-based...
- 12/12/2014
- by Johnny Dodd, @Johnny_Dodd
- PEOPLE.com
The attorney for pregnant Chicago teenager Heather Mack, who was arrested in Bali after the bloody body of her mother was found stuffed in a suitcase at a luxury resort, claims his client hasn't been allowed to meet privately with her lawyers and is "emotionally and mentally drained" after two weeks in an Indonesian jail. "She has gotten worse in terms of her emotional and mental state," attorney Michael Elkin told the Daily Mail. "She is very scared by what is going on … and told me, 'I don't know how long I can take this.' " The teen's attorney has...
- 8/28/2014
- by Johnny Dodd, @Johnny_Dodd
- PEOPLE.com
Troubling revelations continue to surface in the case of the Chicago teenager and her boyfriend accused of murdering her mother and stuffing her body into a suitcase while vacationing in Bali. Heather Mack's violence-prone relationship with her mother, Sheila von Weise Mack, 62, was detailed in a series of incident reports recently released by the Oak Park (Illinois) Police Department. On Monday, Indonesian police confirmed that the 19-year-old Mack is pregnant. "Yes, it is positive," Denpasar Police chief Sr. Comr. Djoko Hari Utomo told reporters after Heather took a pregnancy test on Friday at a hospital near the jails where she and boyfriend Tommy Schaefer,...
- 8/21/2014
- by Johnny Dodd, @Johnny_Dodd
- PEOPLE.com
Troubling revelations continue to surface in the case of the Chicago teenager and her boyfriend accused of murdering her mother and stuffing her body into a suitcase while vacationing in Bali. Heather Mack's violence-prone relationship with her mother, Sheila von Weise-Mack, 62, was detailed in a series of incident reports recently released by the Oak Park (Illinois) Police Department. On Monday, Indonesian police confirmed that the 19-year-old Mack is pregnant. "Yes, it is positive," Denpasar Police chief Sr. Comr. Djoko Hari Utomo told reporters after Heather took a pregnancy test on Friday at a hospital near the jails where she and boyfriend Tommy Schaefer,...
- 8/21/2014
- by Johnny Dodd, @Johnny_Dodd
- PEOPLE.com
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