Heather Mack, 26, conspired along with her boyfriend to kill her mom, Sheila Von Wiese-Mack, stuff her physique in a suitcase and cargo it into the trunk of a taxi throughout a trip on the Indonesian island of Bali, the US Justice Division mentioned.
Mack was scheduled to look in US District Court docket in Chicago, her dwelling metropolis, on Wednesday, it added in an announcement.
Indonesian authorities arrested Mack and her boyfriend, Tommy Schaefer, 28, after the August 2014 killing. Schaefer was sentenced in 2015 to 18 years for premeditated homicide, whereas Mack, then 19, obtained a 10-year sentence for being an adjunct to homicide.
A 2017 US grand jury indictment that was unsealed on Wednesday alleged that Mack and Schaefer got here up with their plan to kill Von Wiese-Mack earlier than they left america for Bali, and that Schaefer requested his cousin, Ryan Bibbs, about methods of killing her.
Mack requested Bibbs if he knew anybody who would kill her mom for cash, and he pleaded responsible in December 2016 to 1 rely of conspiracy to commit international homicide of a US nationwide, the Justice Division mentioned.
Beneath the division’s competition that her plan was conceived in america, Mack faces two US counts of homicide conspiracy and one in all obstruction, and a most statutory penalty of life imprisonment if convicted of the conspiracy prices, the division mentioned.
Mack was deported following her launch from jail on Oct. 29 as her allow had expired, an Indonesian immigration official mentioned. Schaefer stays in jail.
Mack’s lawyer, Yulius Benyamin Seran, mentioned she was accompanied on the airplane to Chicago by her daughter, to whom she had given start earlier than her sentencing.
