{"id":76498,"date":"2026-02-25T21:19:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T12:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/feb\/25\/us-man-tommy-schaefer-deported-from-bali-after-11-years-in-prison-for-suitcase-of-then-girlfriends-mother"},"modified":"2026-02-25T21:19:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T12:19:00","slug":"us-man-deported-from-bali-after-11-years-in-prison-for-suitcase-murder-of-then-girlfriends-mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=76498","title":{"rendered":"US man deported from Bali after 11 years in prison for \u2018suitcase murder\u2019 of then girlfriend\u2019s mother"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tommy Schaefer released early from 18-year sentence for 2014 murder of Sheila von Wiese-Mack during luxury holiday<\/p>\n<p>Indonesia has freed and deported a US man after he spent 11 years in prison for the premeditated murder of his then girlfriend\u2019s mother on the tourist island of Bali.<\/p>\n<p>Tommy Schaefer was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/apr\/21\/indonesia-court-sentences-us-couple-over-bali\">sentenced to 18 years in prison<\/a> for the 2014 murder of Sheila von Wiese-Mack, the mother of Heather Mack, during a luxury holiday in a case that became known as the Bali suitcase murder.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/feb\/25\/us-man-tommy-schaefer-deported-from-bali-after-11-years-in-prison-for-suitcase-of-then-girlfriends-mother\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tommy Schaefer released early from 18-year sentence for 2014 murder of Sheila von Wiese-Mack during luxury holidayIndonesia has freed and deported a US man after he spent 11 years in prison for the premeditated murder of his then girlfriend\u2019s mother on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"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":[41,413,156,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-bali","category-indonesia","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76498","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\/292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76498"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76502,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76498\/revisions\/76502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}