Heather Mack

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 freedom since her mother’s body was discovered in a bloody suitcase left outside a posh Indonesian resort in 2014.

Heather Mack’s attorneys asked a federal judge to release her from jail while she awaits a summer trial on charges she conspired to kill her mother in what was dubbed the “Bali suitcase murder.”

Heather Mack, a Chicago woman who served more than seven years in an Indonesian prison for killing her mother at a luxury resort on the island of Bali, had a court appearance Tuesday for an update in her case, and her attorney was granted more time to sift through evidence.

Heather Mack has not seen her lawyer face-to-face in nearly a month due to strict COVID protocols at the Metropolitan Correctional Center, attorney Jeff Steinback said during a court appearance for his client Tuesday.

Heather Mack, a Chicago woman who served more than seven years in an Indonesian prison for killing her mother at a luxury resort on the island of Bali, will remain in jail in Chicago, a judge ruled Wednesday. NBC 5’s Chris Coffey has the newest developments in the case.

Heather Mack, a Chicago woman who served more than seven years in an Indonesian prison for killing her mother at a luxury resort on the island of Bali, will remain in jail in Chicago, a judge ruled Wednesday.

Heather Mack, a Chicago woman who served more than seven years in an Indonesian prison for killing her mother at a luxury resort on the island of Bali, is expected to appear in court Wednesday where her bail will be set.

Heather Mack, a Chicago woman who served more than seven years in an Indonesian prison for killing her mother at a luxury resort on the island of Bali, pleaded not guilty in Chicago court Wednesday after being indicted on murder conspiracy charges in the United States and taken into federal custody. NBC 5’s Alex Maragos has all the latest details.

Heather Mack, a Chicago woman who served more than seven years in an Indonesian prison for killing her mother at a luxury resort on the island of Bali, pleaded not guilty in Chicago court Wednesday after being indicted on murder conspiracy charges in the United States and taken into federal custody.

Heather Mack and Tommy Schaefer are charged with conspiring to kill Mack’s mother, Sheila von Wiese-Mack, in a federal indictment filed in 2017 and briefly unsealed Wednesday in Chicago’s federal court.

A Chicago woman convicted of helping to kill her mother on the Indonesian tourist island of Bali and stuff the body into a suitcase was tightly escorted to the airport Tuesday for her deportation to the United States.

A Chicago woman convicted of helping to kill her mother on the Indonesian tourist island of Bali and stuff the body into a suitcase was tightly escorted to the airport Tuesday for her deportation to the United States.

Heather Mack, the Chicago woman who garnered international headlines for helping to kill her mother and stuffing her body into a suitcase, was released from an Indonesian prison Friday after serving seven years, but some relatives continue to assert the sentence wasn’t harsh enough. NBC 5’s Chris Coffey reports.

Heather Mack, the Chicago woman who garnered international headlines for helping to kill her mother and stuffing her body into a suitcase, was released from an Indonesian prison Friday after serving seven years, but some relatives continue to assert the sentence wasn’t harsh enough.

An American woman convicted of helping to kill her mother on Indonesia’s tourist island of Bali has walked free from prison

A Chicago woman convicted of assisting her boyfriend in her mother’s murder and stuffing the body in a suitcase on Indonesia’s resort island of Bali in 2014 is being released early from a 10-year prison sentence