When 6-year-old Stella Schaefer and her mother landed in Chicago at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday on a connecting flight via Seoul from Bali, FBI agents were waiting.
The mother, 26-year-old Heather Mack, had been released 36 months early for good behavior from a 10-year sentence for her part in what became known as the “Suitcase Murder.”
Stella had not been born when her pregnant 18-year-old mother joined her 21-year-old father, Timmy Schaefer, in an Aug. 12, 2014, killing at a luxury resort in Bali. The victim was Stella’s maternal grandmother, 62-year-old Sheila von Wiese-Mack.