Heather Mack’s lawyers hope to convince a federal judge Thursday to release the 27-year-old pending trial, giving Mack what would be her first taste of.
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A federal judge rejected Mack’s request to be released pending trial. It would have been Mack’s first taste of freedom since her mother’s body was discovered in a bloody suitcase left outside a posh Indonesian resort in 2014.
Mack, 26, appeared in Illinois state court on Monday for proceedings to determine custody arrangements for her daughter, seven-year-old Estelle Schaefer, who goes by Stella.
Heather Mack, awaiting trial for the Bali murder of her Chicago socialite mom, Sheila von Wiese-Mack, in alleged plot for her trust fund, requests release, custody of her daughter.