Heather Mack, convicted in Bali of killing mom and stuffing body in suitcase, pleads guilty in US

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BREAKING: Heather Mack, who was convicted in Indonesia of killing her mother on the resort island of Bali and stuffing her body in a suitcase, has pleaded guilty to related charges in a Chicago court.

FILE - Heather Mack of Chicago, Ill., center, is mobbed by reporters as she arrives in the courtroom for her sentencing hearing at a district court in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia, April 21, 2015. The Chicago woman facing federal conspiracy charges in the 2014 killing of her mother during a luxury vacation in Bali plans to plead guilty, her attorney said Thursday, June 1, 2023.

After the judge explained the charge against her, Mack pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to kill a U.S. national. Mack, who lived with her mother in suburban Chicago’s Oak Park, served seven years of her 10-year Indonesian sentence. She was then deported in 2021 and U.S. agents arrested her immediately after she landed at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport.

 

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