Court documents reveal details of hours leading up to Chicago woman's killing at Bali resort
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}FILE - In this March 31, 2015 file photo, Heather Mack, 19, left, and her boyfriend Tommy Schaefer, 21, both from Chicago, are handcuffed as they arrive at a courtroom during their trial in Bali, Indonesia. Mack and Schaefer, 19, were both convicted in the killing of Mack’s mother, Sheila von Wiese-Mack, whose body was found stuffed inside a suitcase in a taxi at a Bali resort last August. The Chicago Tribune reports Monday, July 6, 2015, that Indonesian court documents, recently made public in a Cook County court, reveal the details of the hours leading up to Wiese-Mack’s killing. (AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati, File) (The Associated Press)
Indonesian court documents show that a man convicted in the murder of a Chicago woman in Bali arrived on the resort island hours before the killing and checked into a resort using her credit card.
The Chicago Tribune (http://trib.in/1NIFIC4 ) reports that the translated documents recently were made public in a Cook County court.
Sheila von Wiese-Mack's body was found stuffed inside a suitcase in a taxi at the resort last August. Weise-Mack's 19-year-old daughter, Heather Mack, and the daughter's 21-year-old boyfriend, Tommy Schaefer, have been convicted in her killing.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Schaefer admitted to repeatedly striking Von Wiese-Mack with a fruit bowl, claiming self-defense, and was sentenced to 18 years in prison. Mack is serving 10 years for assisting.
Stella, the couple's baby girl, was born in prison in March.