Bali Suitcase Murder: Facebook message before brutal killing unsealed from federal investigation

“Can you not tell people i asked you to kill my mom.”

That’s apparently how a Facebook message began from Heather Mack to her boyfriend Tommy Schaefer months before the body of Mack’s mother turned up in a bloody suitcase outside the the Bali St. Regis in August 2014. 

The Facebook message was contained in a recently unsealed document evidencing Sheila von Wiese-Mack’s murder led to a U.S. federal investigation over her overseas death and the conspiracy around it, according to the Chicago Sun-Times

The American newspaper obtained the grammatical-error-filled Facebook message from May 26, 2014 and printed it. Here’s the rest of the Facebook message, as published by the Chicago Sun-Times:

“Cause i was so f—ed up tommy and i really didnt mean it… Ive been regretting ever saying that so much and ive paid for it, shes almpst died like 5 times and ive been so petrified and scared.”

 A spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office, a spokeswoman for the FBI, and Schaefer’s mother all declined to comment to the Chicago newspaper, leaving the results of the federal investigation unclear. 

Both Mack and Schaefer were found guilty in April this year for their roles in Von Wiese-Mack’s death by a court in Bali, with Mack getting 10 years and Schaefer getting 18. The two have a baby together, who was born in March and now stays with Mack in her cell inside Kerobokan Prison. 

Photo: AFP




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