Chicago Sun Times
September 5, 2015
Months before the gruesome murder of her mother on the beautiful island of Bali, Heather Mack apparently had a request for Tommy Schaefer.
So the troubled Chicago teenager sent her boyfriend a Facebook note riddled with grammatical errors on May 26, 2014, records show….
It began simply: “Can you not tell people i asked you to kill my mom.”
“Cause i was so f—ed up tommy and i really didnt mean it,” it read. “Ive been regretting ever saying that so much and ive paid for it, shes almpst died like 5 times and ive been so petrified and scared.”
That dispatch — typos and all — is contained in a document that reveals the Aug. 12, 2014, murder of Sheila von Wiese-Mack prompted a federal investigation into the foreign murder of a United States national and the conspiracy around it.
Now unsealed and obtained by the Chicago Sun-Times, the record also sheds some new light on the case. The slaying of the 62-year-old Chicagoan generated international headlines after her body was discovered in a bloody suitcase left in the trunk of a taxi outside the St. Regis Bali Resort.