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Episode 011 (Bonus Episode: Women Who Kill), Season 4 - Heather Mack – Murder in Paradise

  • Bianca Sloane
  • Apr 21
  • 1 min read

Daddy’s girl Heather Mack thought she’d found her soulmate in aspiring rapper Tommy Schaefer.


However, Heather’s mother, Sheila, thinks her daughter can do better and is determined to keep Heather away from this bad influence.


And when Sheila whisks Heather away to Bali for a little mother/daughter bonding, she’ll learn too late that Heather will do ANYTHING to get her mother out of the way.


Listen to the episode HERE.


Photo caption (L-R): Heather Mack was the apple of her parent's eye, especially her father, renowned jazz musician, James L. Mack. Heather was devastated when he died when she was 10. Also pictured, Heather's mother, Sheila Von Wiese-Mack (credit:News.com.AU); Sheila was a socialite who immersed herself in Chicago's artistic community (credit: Find a Grave). The historic Charles S. Castle House in Oak Park, Ill., where Heather was raised. Police were called to the home 86 times in response to domestic violence disputes between mother and daughter (credit: Wednesday Journal); Heather and Sheila (credit: The Times); The object of Heather's desire, Tommy Schaefer. Heather would do ANYTHING to be with Tommy (credit: Wednesday Journal); The Suitcase (credit: CNN); Surveillance cameras captured Heather loading The Suitcase into the trunk of a taxi in Bali before she and Tommy fled the scene (credit: CBS News)


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