Trials Begin in Bali for Couple Charged in Oak Park Woman's Murder

The trials of Heather Mack, 19, and her boyfriend Tommy Schaefer, 21, began Jan. 14 in Bali, Indonesia, for the murder of Sheila von Wiese-Mack of Oak Park.

The American couple is charged with the premeditated murder of Mack’s mother, and their separate trials are taking place in the Denpasar District Court on Bali, according to the Associated Press.

Von Wiese-Mack’s body was found Aug. 12 in a suitcase in the truck of a taxi outside the St. Regis Bali Resort, where Mack, von Wiese-Mack and Schaefer were staying, the Associated Press reported.

Read the full story by the Associated Press, via the Chicago Sun Times.

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Caption:Heather Mack (L) of the US speaks with her boyfriend Tommy Schaefer (R) inside a holding cell at the prosecutor’s office in Denpasar on Indonesia’s resort island of Bali on December 8, 2014. An American woman and her boyfriend accused of murdering the woman’s mother at a luxury Bali hotel and stuffing her body into a suitcase will stand trial in January, an Indonesian prosecutor said on December 8.