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U.S. NEWS Monday 6 February 2017
Chicago woman: beau didn’t help kill her mom in Bali

her boyfriend at the time sages with herself to make
only helped her cover it up it appear the two were tex-
because she threatened ting each other when they
him. weren’t.
In a series of three vid- “Tommy’s an innocent
eos that were posted last man,” said Mack, who has
week, 21-year-old Heather cellphone and internet ac-
Mack says that her then- cess in prison. She said one
boyfriend Tommy Schaefer reason she framed Schae-
falsely confessed to strik- fer was because she knew
ing her 62-year-old mother, there was a chance she
Sheila von Weise-Mack, would be arrested after
in the head with a metal she killed her mother and
fruit bowl during their trip “I didn’t want to get arrest-
to Bali. She says he only ed by myself in a different
helped her stuff the body country.”
in a suitcase and clean up The two were convicted
In this 2015 photo, Heather Mack, left, and her boyfriend Tommy
Schaefer, of Chicago, are handcuffed as they arrive at a court- because she threatened to in 2015. Schaefer was sen-
room during their trial in Bali, Indonesia. Mack, who was impris- tell police that he commit- tenced to 18 years in prison
oned in Indonesia for the 2014 killing of her mother, says in vid- ted the crime. and Mack received a 10-
eos posted on YouTube that she acted alone and her boyfriend Authorities have said that year prison sentence. At
at the time, Schaefer, only helped her cover it up because she the two discussed killing the time, the three-judge
threatened him. von Weise-Mack in text panel said it decided to be
(AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati)
messages, but in the videos lenient toward the then-19-
CHICAGO (AP) — A Chi- killing of her mother says in Mack said that she took his year-old Mack because
cago woman imprisoned videos posted on YouTube phone when he was asleep she had recently given
in Indonesia for the 2014 that she acted alone and and exchanged text mes- birth.q
Police:

Man arrested in death of NYC jogger

NEW YORK (AP) — A man not far from her Queens
has been arrested in the home. Her father, a retired
strangulation of a New York firefighter who usually went
City woman who had gone running with her but hadn’t
out for a run last summer on that day, later discov-
and was found dead in a ered her badly beaten
secluded marsh, authorities body.
said Sunday. Boyce said the encounter
Chief of Detectives Robert that led to 30-year-old Ve-
Boyce said Chanel Lewis, trano’s death apparently
20, of Brooklyn, was taken was a chance one, and
into custody Saturday night. authorities didn’t believe
Formal charges and an ar- she and Lewis knew each
raignment were pending; it other. The chief detective
wasn’t clear if Lewis had an said the investigation led
attorney. Lewis has no prior to Lewis after police went
arrest record, police said. back through 911 calls and
Karina Vetrano was killed found one reporting a sus-
Aug. 2 after going for a run picious person. q