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Nearly nine years after the brutal murder of her mother in Indonesia, Heather Mack is set to potentially plead guilty this month to federal charges related to the August 2014 killing of Sheila von Wiese-Mack.
Custody was decided by a bench trial that began in September and ended Tuesday.
A Cook County judge named a maternal cousin of Heather Mack as the guardian of Mack’s 7-year-old daughter on Tuesday, offering the girl stability for the first time since she came to the United States with her mother in November 2021.
Custody was decided by a bench trial that began in September and ended Tuesday.
If released, it would be Mack’s first taste of freedom since her mother’s body was discovered in a bloody suitcase left outside a posh Indonesian resort in 2014. Mack has said she hopes to regain custody of her daughter and live with a California woman.