Prosecutors Seek 28-year Sentence for Heather Mack in Mom’s Bali Slaying, Stuffing Into Suitcase

Prosecutors Seek 28-year Sentence for Heather Mack in Mom’s Bali Slaying, Stuffing Into Suitcase
Heather Mack of Chicago (C) is mobbed by reporters as she arrives in the courtroom for her sentencing hearing at a district court in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia, on April 21, 2015. Firdia Lisnawati/AP Photo
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Federal prosecutors in Chicago are recommending a 28-year prison sentence for an American woman who pleaded guilty to helping kill her mother and stuffing the body in a suitcase during a luxury vacation at a Bali resort nearly a decade ago.

That’s considerably more time behind bars than Heather Mack’s defense lawyers are expected to ask for when she’s sentenced next week for conspiring to kill Sheila von Wiese-Mack.