The Bali ‘suitcase murder’: Heather Mack timeline

Heather Mack — the Chicago woman convicted of helping kill her mother and stuffing her body in a suitcase on the Indonesian tourist island of Bali in 2014 — served about seven years of a 10-year sentence in Indonesia, only to be arrested by the FBI when she landed at O’Hare International Airport in 2021 on a federal indictment that had been filed under seal in 2017. She pleaded guilty in June 2023 to one count in the federal murder conspiracy case against her in Chicago federal court.

Lawyers for Mack have asked a federal judge in Chicago to impose the minimum sentence of 15 years in prison and grant her credit for nearly 10 years already spent behind bars.

Below are some major points in the case, as found in the Tribune archives.

[ Attorneys for Heather Mack ask for minimum sentence, credit for time served in ‘Bali suitcase’ murder of mother a decade ago ]