{"id":56033,"date":"2023-06-17T08:56:14","date_gmt":"2023-06-16T23:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/16\/heather-mack-guilty-bali-murder-mother"},"modified":"2023-06-17T08:56:14","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T23:56:14","slug":"heather-mack-us-woman-pleads-guilty-over-mothers-suitcase-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=56033","title":{"rendered":"Heather Mack: US woman pleads guilty over mother\u2019s suitcase murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mack pleads guilty in Chicago to conspiring to kill Sheila von Wiese-Mack in Bali in 2014 to gain access to $1.5m trust fund<\/p>\n<p>An American woman accused of helping to kill her mother and stuffing her body in a suitcase during a luxury vacation to Bali nine years ago changed her plea to guilty in Chicago federal court on Friday. Her lawyer said later she hoped to avoid a sentence of life behind bars by doing so.<\/p>\n<p>Heather Mack pleaded guilty to one count of conspiring to kill Sheila von Wiese-Mack to get access to a $1.5m trust fund. Mack, then 18 and pregnant, covered her mom\u2019s mouth in a hotel room while her then boyfriend Tommy Schaefer bludgeoned her with a fruit bowl, prosecutors say.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/16\/heather-mack-guilty-bali-murder-mother\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mack pleads guilty in Chicago to conspiring to kill Sheila von Wiese-Mack in Bali in 2014 to gain access to $1.5m trust fundAn American woman accused of helping to kill her mother and stuffing her body in a suitcase during a luxury vacation to Bali nin&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3803,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[156,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indonesia","category-us-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3803"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56033"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56034,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56033\/revisions\/56034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}