Heather Mack, convicted of helping to murder her mother in Bali, is freed from prison

Heather Mack, a Chicago woman who was convicted of helping to kill her mother on Indonesia’s tourist island of Bali in 2014, walks free from prison. A Chicago woman convicted of helping to kill her mother on Indonesia’s tourist island of Bali in 2014 walked free from prison Friday after serving seven years of a 10-year sentence and will be deported to the U.S. An Indonesian court sentenced Mack to 10 years in prison for assisting Schaefer in her mother’s murder and stuffing the body in a suitcase. She said Mack was a bit shocked, sad and frightened when she was about to leave, “but we all cheered her on and reassured her that everything would be all right.” “Heather used to say that prison has changed her life a lot — she loves Indonesia and the people who have surrounded her all these years,” Lili said, “She will miss us so much, and so do we here.” Mack will have to stay for a few days at the Immigration Detention Center while waiting for flight tickets and travel documents to be ready, said Amrizal, chief of the Bali immigration office for the Ministry of Law and Human Rights.