Indonesia frees and deports American who spent 11 years in prison for Bali 'suitcase murder'
NBC News • • general
Key Points:
- Tommy Schaefer, an American man, was released and deported from Indonesia after serving 11 years for the 2014 premeditated murder of Sheila von Wiese-Mack on Bali.
- Schaefer was originally sentenced to 18 years for the killing of von Wiese-Mack, whose battered body was found in a taxi trunk at the St. Regis Bali Resort.
- The victim's daughter, Heather Mack, who was pregnant and nearly 19 at the time, was also involved; she served seven years in Bali before being deported in 2021.
- Heather Mack later received a 26-year prison sentence in Chicago in 2024 after pleading guilty to assisting in the murder and concealing the body in a
