US Woman Gets 26 Years in Prison for Helping Kill Her Mother in Bali and Stuffing Body in a Suitcase

Heather Mack from Chicago stands inside a cell before a trial in Bali, Indonesia, on March 11, 2015. Firdia Lisnawati/AP Photo

CHICAGO—An American woman who pleaded guilty to helping kill her own mother and stuffing the body in a suitcase during a luxury vacation in Bali was sentenced in Chicago Wednesday to 26 years in prison.

Federal prosecutors had recommended a 28-year prison sentence for Heather Mack for conspiring with her boyfriend to kill Sheila von Wiese-Mack in 2014.