US Woman in Bali ‘Suitcase Murder’ to Be Released Oct. 29

US Woman in Bali ‘Suitcase Murder’ to Be Released Oct. 29
Heather Mack of Chicago (C) is escorted by police officers as she arrives in the courtroom for her sentencing hearing at a district court in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia, on April 21, 2015. Firdia Lisnawati/AP Photo
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JAKARTA, Indonesia—A Chicago woman convicted of assisting her boyfriend in her mother’s murder and stuffing the body in a suitcase on Indonesia’s resort island of Bali in 2014 is being released early from a 10-year sentence, a prison official confirmed Wednesday.

Heather Mack, who was 18 when she was arrested a day after the discovery of Sheila von Wiese-Mack’s body in the trunk of a taxi parked near the St. Regis Bali Resort, will be freed and deported to the United States on Oct. 29, said Lili, the Kerobokan Female Prison chief.