The young woman who hacked her mother to death in Bali and then stuffed her body inside a suitcase, posted a YouTube video discussing the “savage idea”—a social media stunt that could land her more time behind bars.
Speaking slowly and calmly, Heather Mack—a Chicago woman who’s currently serving a 10-year sentence in an Indonesian prison—chillingly recalled the exact moment she knew she wanted to kill her mom, Sheila von Wiese-Mack.
“When I was 10, my mother killed my father in a hotel in Athens, Greece,” Mack said in the video.
“Two weeks before I came to Bali, I found out that she killed my father and I made it up in my heart, in my mind, in my soul, in my blood, in the oxygen running through my body that I wanted to kill my mother.”
It’s unclear when and where the three-part video was shot but it was posted to YouTube on Feb. 2.
“This is a video I need to make. I’m Heather Mack and I want to be set free. I don’t want to live in a lie anymore,” she said.
Mack and her boyfriend Tommy Schaefer were tried and convicted in von Wiese-Mack’s 2014 murder at the luxe St. Regis hotel in Bali.
Mack was convicted of being an accessory to murder. Schaefer got 18 years for premeditated murder.
“I don’t regret killing my mother … but I regret bringing Tommy into it,” Mack said. “Tommy is an innocent man.”
Indonesian prosecutors are now weighing whether Mack’s disturbing online comments are enough to give her a stiffer sentence.
“If Mack is indeed the mastermind of the murder, the video can be used as evidence in the case, and the sentence should be heavier than it is now,” said Ashari Kurniawan, a spokesman for the Bali prosecutor’s office.
Mack’s lawyer, Ben Seran, said she was forced to make the confession tape.
“We suspect Tommy’s motivation is to attack Heather after they broke up,” he said.
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