Heather L. Mack biography: 13 things about Oak Park, Illinois woman

Heather Lois Mack is an American woman who grew up a $1.5 million mansion in Oak Park, Illinois, United States. She is James L. Mack and Sheila von Weise Mack‘s daughter.

Heather is 2 years younger than Tommy Schaeffer. Here are 13 more things about her:

1. In 2001, she and her parents went on a Royal Caribbean cruise through the Mediterranean Sea. After suffering a foot injury during the trip, her father sued Royal Caribbean.
2. Between January 2004 and June 2013, police were called to their residence in Oak Park all relating to domestic incidents between her and her mother. In 2004, police were called to the their residence over claims that the children from his father’s previous relationships were denied access to him by her mother who would turn off the lights and pretend not to be home.
3. On August 6, 2006, while she and her parents were on a vacation in Greece, her father died from a pulmonary embolism in his hotel room.
4. In January 2010, she punched her mother’s broken ankle. From 2010 to 2014, she attended Oak Park and River Forest High School in Oak Park.
5. In February 2011, she broke her mother’s arm and removed the phone cord to prevent her mother from calling 911. In July 2011, she threatened her mother.
6. In November 2012, she bit her mother and her mother refused to allow police to photograph the bruise.
7. In 2013, she started dating Schaeffer, who was then an unemployed rapper also known as Tommy EXX. Her mother did not approve of their relationship.
8. On August 7, 2014, she and her mother had an argument in the lobby of St. Regis Hotel in Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia. Shortly after, Schaeffer used a fruit bowl to bludgeon her mother in their hotel room and stuffed her mother’s body into a suitcase. She and Schaeffer put the suitcase into the trunk of a cab outside the hotel. On August 15, 2014, she and Schaeffer were designated as prisoners. On August 20, 2014, a urine test confirmed that she was pregnant. On September 19, 2014, Schaeffer admitted to killing her mother and she admitted to helping him stuff the body into the suitcase.
9. On January 14, 2015, she and Schaeffer were charged with premeditated murder in Indonesia. In April 2015, she was sentenced to 10 years in prison and he was sentenced to 18 years in prison. She was incarcerated in Kerobokan Penitentiary Institution in Kerobokan, Badung Regency, Bali where she gave birth to her daughter.
10. She received 34 months remission from her prison sentence, 6 months of which were awarded by Joko Widodo in August 2021. On October 29, 2021, she was released from Kerobokan Penitentiary Institution. As soon as she and her daughter arrived at the O’Hare International Airport in Chicago on November 3, 2021, she was arrested and her daughter was placed with a relative.
11. On June 16, 2023, she pleaded guilty to conspiring to kill a U.S. national to gain access to a $1.5 million trust fund.
12. In October 2023, she turned 28.
13. On January 17, 2024, she was sentenced to 26 years in prison.