Indonesia has freed and deported an American man after he spent 11 years in prison for the premeditated murder of his then-girlfriend’s mother on the tourist island of Bali. Tommy Schaefer was sentenced to 18 years in prison for the murder of Sheila von Wiese-Mack in 2014 during a luxury vacation, a case also known as the Bali “suitcase murder.” Schaefer was deported back to the United States from Bali International Airport on Tuesday evening. Heather Mack, who was almost 19 and a few weeks pregnant at the time of the killing, served a 10-year prison sentence in Bali for helping to kill her mother and was deported in October 2021.
