Slain Mother's Relationship with Daughter Said to be Volatile

Caption: Sheila von Wiese-Mack | Heather Mack and her boyfriend Tommy Schaefer

Oak Park Police were frequent visitors to the home of Sheila von Wiese-Mack, called to deal with mother-daughter fights, missing person reports and theft complaints, reports the Chicago Tribune.

Heather Mack, 19, has been arrested along with her 21-year-old boyfriend on suspicion of murder in her 62-year-old mother’s death. Sheila von Weise-Mack was beaten severely at a Bali hotel and her body was stuffed into a suitcase and left in a taxi.

Police were called to their home 86 times in the last 10 years, according to Oak officials, and the relationship between mother and daughter was fractious and violent.

Von Wiese-Mack once broke her arm during an argument with Heather.

“Police were here all the time,” one neighbor told the Tribune. “They would call police on each other. It turned very abusive and volatile.”

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Recently, von Wiese-Mack told police that her credit card was being used in July by her daughter without her permission to rack up $1,000 in charges at the Conrad Hotel in Chicago.

Police found her and her boyfriend at the hotel, and they arrested the boyfriend, Tommy Schaefer, of Oak Park, and charged him with disorderly conduct.

Mack attended Oak Park-River Forest High School. Friends told the newspaper Mack spoke openly about tension with her mom and they witnessed several heated arguments over the phone while she was in school.

Laura Voigt, a friend of the girl’s late father, told the Tribune she saw the two fighting once in front of the high school.

“I was worried about Sheila,” Voigt said.