World News - WASHINGTON: A Chicago woman who spent seven years jailed in Bali for helping kill her mother at a luxury hotel was arrested on Wednesday upon her return from Indonesia, the US Justice Department said. Heather Mack, 26, was taken into custody when she. Read more at www.tnp.sg
A US woman deported from Indonesia after serving prison time for her role in her mother’s 2014 “suitcase” murder was arrested on Wednesday on conspiracy charges when her plane arrived in Chicago, US authorities said.
Heather Mack, 26, conspired with her boyfriend to kill her mother, Sheila Von Wiese-Mack, stuff her body in a suitcase and load it into the trunk of a taxi during a vacation on the Indonesian island of Bali, the US Department of Justice said.
Mack was scheduled to appear in US District Court in Chicago, her home city, on Wednesday, it added in a statement.
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