Tommy Schaefer's Mom Says Heather Mack Wants to Sell Baby Stella

Kia Walker, the mother of Tommy Schaefer and the grandmother of Stella Schaefer, told a Cook County judge Friday that she’s worried Heather Mack will sell Stella for $150,000 in Bali.

Walker was present in a Cook County courtroom where lawyers argued over a $1.56 million trust fund left by Shelia von Wiese-Mack, according to the Chicago Tribune.

Heather Mack, of Oak Park, was set to inherit the trust with her uncle, William Wiese, assigned to oversee the money until she turned 30.

But an Illinois statute rules that a person who causes the death of another person can’t receive property granted from the death. Tommy Schaefer and Heather Mack were convicted in April by an Indonesian court of the premeditated murder of von Wiese-Mack.

One of Mack’s lawyers said earlier this week that Mack thought Stella might be better off leaving the prison to live with an Australian couple in Bali.

The Australian couple has helped Mack get supplies for Stella and food.

Heather Mack was sentenced up to 10 years in prison and Tommy Schaefer received up to 18 years. Prosecutors in the trials said it was a case of premeditated and “sadistic” murder, but out of mercy they asked the three justices to spare the lives of Mack and Schaefer from the death penalty because of the baby.

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