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Heather Mack was sentenced Wednesday to 26 years in federal prison for helping to murder her mother at a Bali resort and stuff her bludgeoned body in a suitcase, sparking a sensational legal saga and led police on a trail back to suburban Chicago. Mack, 28, who pleaded guilty last year to conspiring to murder a U.S. citizen on foreign soil, has already spent nearly 10 years behind bars for the .
Before she was sentenced, Mack took the stand and said she was “responsible for my decisions” and added that she still misses and still loves her mother.
A Cook County judge named a maternal cousin of Heather Mack as the guardian of Mack’s 7-year-old daughter on Tuesday, offering the girl stability for the first time since she came to the United States with her mother in November 2021.