Heather Mack sentenced to 26 years in federal prison for mother’s coarse Bali ‘suitcase’ murder
Heather Mack was sentenced Wednesday to 26 years in federal prison for helping to murder her mother at a Bali resort and stuff her bludgeoned body in a suitcase, sparking a sensational legal saga and led police on a trail back to suburban Chicago.
Mack, 28, who pleaded guilty last year to conspiring to murder a U.S. citizen on foreign soil, has already spent nearly 10 years behind bars for the August 2014 slaying of Sheila von Wiese-Mack, including about 7 years in a prison in Indonesia.
Depending on how much prior prison time Mack is given credit for, the sentence handed down by U.S. District Judge Matthew Kennelly could mean Mack will not be eligible for release until she is more than 40 years old.
At the end of an emotional, four-hour hearing, Mack was asked if she wanted to address the court. She stood before the lectern, dressed in orange jail clothes and wearing dark eyeglasses, and apologized for her crime, her voice breaking as she said she still loves
