'I don't regret killing my mother': Bali killer Heather Mack CONFESSES to murdering her mom in chilling prison tape and says she forced her 'innocent' boyfriend to stuff the body in a suitcase

  • Heather Mack, 21, posted three videos on YouTube confessing to the killing
  • She claimed she bludgeoned mother Sheila von Wiese-Mack herself in 2014
  • The pregnant teen and her boyfriend Tommy Schaefer put body in a suitcase
  • They were jailed in 2015 for the murder at the St Regis in Nusa Duam, Bali
  • Mack previously claimed Schaefer carried out the killing against her racist mom
  • On Thursday she said it was in fact revenge for her father's 2006 death
  • 'I've heard the truth sets you free', she said before telling camera: 'I don't regret killing my mother'
  • Mack receives 'princess treatment' at Bali's notorious Kerobokan Prison 
  • She regularly shares photographs with her daughter Stella on Instagram  

Heather Mack has remorselessly confessed to murdering her mother in a Bali hotel room then getting her boyfriend to stuff her body in a suitcase. 

In three videos uploaded to YouTube from an Indonesian prison on Thursday, the 21-year-old said claimed that she concocted the murder plot and forced boyfriend Tommy Schaefer to help her after learning that her mother was responsible for her father's 2006 death. 

'I killed her myself and then I told Tommy that if he did not help me clean the room and get rid of the body, that I would tell the police that he did it, that I would pay money to get him arrested,' she said. 

Blinking back tears, she said she regretted dragging Tommy, who was 'innocent' in to her murderous revenge plot but that she didn't regret the killing.   

'I don't regret killing my mother and as evil as that may sound, that's my reality.' 

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Heather Mack confessed to killing her mother in a chilling prison video she uploaded to YouTube on Thursday 

Mack was sentenced to 10 years behind bars while Schaefer was jailed for 18 in 2015 after they were found guilty of murdering Sheila von Wiese-Mack. 

Her sentence was more lenient given the birth of their daughter, Stella, during legal proceedings. The baby now lives with her mother in prison.

Sheila von Wiese-Mack was murdered by her daughter and her boyfriend  at the St Regis hotel in Bali's Nusa Dua in August, 2014 

She now receives 'princess treatment' in the jail, regularly sharing photographs on social media through a contraband cell phone she presumably used to film her confession.  

During the trial in Denpasar, Bali, the couple claimed Schaefer bludgeoned von Wiese-Mack with a fruit bowl in her room at the luxurious St Regis Hotel in retaliation against her racial slurs. 

In her video on Thursday, Mack claimed this was a lie designed to convince jurors Schaefer was guilty of the murder so that she would be allowed to keep her $1million inheritance. 

The real motive for the murder was her father's death eight years earlier, she said, which she had discovered two weeks before the Bali vacation. 

'When I was 10, my mother killed my father in a hotel in Athens, Greece. 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, my soul, in my blood, in the oxygen running through my body, that I wanted to kill my mother.

'I got this whole new savage idea in my head that I wanted to kill her in a hotel room because she had killed my father in a hotel room.' 

She claimed she then began framing Schaefer by texting herself from his phone while he slept to discuss details of the killing. She deleted the exchanges before he could ever see them, she said. 

She claimed to have then booked him on to the holiday - a last ditch effort by her mother to salvage their fractured relationship - by using her credit card. 

They would go on to fight over who would pay Schaefer's holiday expenses in volatile arguments friends said were routine between the socialite and her 'vicious little monster' daughter. 

After murdering her mother in the room on August 12, Mack coerced Schaefer into stuffing her body in a suitcase which was dumped with a taxi driver at the hotel's lobby later. 

Up until then, he had no involvement in the murder, she said. 

Mack's boyfriend, 23-year-old Tommy Schaefer, was with her at the time and confessed in court to murdering her heiress mother. She claims she forced him to lie for her 

Mack said she killed her mother in revenge for her father James Mack's 2006 death. The Chicago composer died of a pulmonary embolism in Athens but his daughter believes her mother killed him 

Mack (above during her 2015 trial) said she and her lawyers forced Schaefer into confessing to the killing so that she could keep her inheritance 

Mack gave birth to the pair's daughter Stella while in custody and now lives with the infant behind bars, regularly sharing photographs on Instagram of their prison life 

'I trapped him here and that is what I regret.  I regret being selfish. I regret trapping an innocent person into this because it was my battle, my mother, it was my father.

'I'm sorry to Tommy Schaefer for trapping him.' 

In court, Mack said she and her lawyers forced him again to follow their lead, convincing him to confess to the murder so that she would not be cut off from the money she stood to inherit.

'My lawyers and I, because of the fact that if I get money, if my article that I was charged with was not that I'm the one that killed her, I'm still entitled to the money and therefore I can pay the lawyers more.

'So we told Tommy together, my lawyers and I, that if he didn't take the blame in the court, that he would get the death penalty.

Schaefer and Mack stuffed her mother's body in this suitcase which they left at the hotel before fleeing in a taxi 

'So he lied in the court because of me, my motivation for doing this was myself.' 

Robert Bibbs, Schaefer's cousin who pleaded guilty last year to helping them plot the killing by telling them in text messages how to carry it out, was also 'innocent', she said. 

Calling him Ryan, Mack told the camera: 'I don't even know how he got involved in this or why the FBI involved him because he had absolutely nothing to do with any of it. 

'He's innocent. I don't know if he wanted to sell a better story or what the FBI was on but Tommy ad Ryan are innocent, I'm not.' 

Through tears, she told Schaefer that she was sorry and that she loved him before signing off. 

'I'm sorry you won't be able to get a job, I'm sorry everybody thinks that you're some crazy killer. This is the truth and whoever is watching this, don't hate Tommy.

'He's innocent. I'm not. I love you Tommy.'

James Mack died in Athens, Greece, during a vacation with his wife and daughter in 2006. Obituaries gave his cause of death as a pulmonary embolism. 

He was a well-known Chicago composer.  

'THE TRUTH SETS YOU FREE': HEATHER MACK'S CONFESSION

'Hey so this is a video that I need to make. A lot of times since I've been a kid I've heard "the truth sets you free", "the truth sets you free," and I never understood but I'm Heather Mack, I wanna be set free. I don't want to live in a lie anymore.

'When I was 10, my mother killed my father in a hotel in Athens, Greece. 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, my soul, in my blood, in the oxygen running through my body that I wanted to kill my mother.

'First, I asked Tommy Schaefer to help me find somebody to kill my mom $50.000 and he said no.  After that, I got this whole new savage idea in my head that I wanted to kill her in a hotel room because she had killed my father in a hotel room.

'We were going to Bali so I began to plot, I began turning off Tommy's phone, taking Tommy's phone when he was asleep. This started in Chicago. Texting myself, having fake conversations and then deleting them before he could see them.

'I did that because part of me knew that with this plan of killing my mom in a hotel, that she might... I might get arrested. I didn't want to get arrested by myself in a different country so I came to Bali and I told Tommy that he was going to come here for a vacation with my mother and I and that she knew about it.

'And in reality, I stole her credit card and bought him a ticket without her knowing about it.

'I trapped him here and that is what I regret. I don't regret killing my mother, and as evil as that may sound, that's my reality. If somebody killed Stella, I wouldn't regret killing them either but I regret bringing Tommy into it.

'I regret being selfish. I regret trapping an innocent person into this because it was my battle, my mother, it was my father. It was my mother, it was my father, it was my battle. I'm sorry to Tommy Schaefer for trapping him.

'We came to Bali, my mom found out. I killed her myself and then I told Tommy that if he did not help me clean the room and get rid of the body, that I would tell the police that he did it, that I would pay money to get him arrested.

'So he helped me clean. He ran with me, in the court the same thing happened. My lawyers and I, because of the fact that if I get money, if my article that I was charged with was not that I'm the one that killed her, I'm still entitled to the money and therefore I can pay the lawyers more. So we told Tommy together, my lawyers and I, that if he didn't take the blame in the court, that he would get the death penalty.

'So he lied in the court because of me, my motivation for doing this was myself. It's from inside of me and it's my battle. It wasn't Tommy's. Tommy is an innocent man and an even more innocent man is Ryan, Tommy's cousin.

'I don't even know how hegot involved in this or why the FBI involved him because he had absolutely nothing to do with any of it. He's innocent. I don't know if he wanted to sell a better story or what the FBI was on but Tommy ad Ryan are innocent, I'm not.

'The only thing Tommy is not innocent of is hiding the body. And the only reason he did that is because of me. 

'Because it was so burning and so deep in my heart, my plan, that I didn't think. I involved him, I hurt him and I hurt Stella and I am sorry Tommy Schaefer, I'm sorry. I love you. 

'I really love you and if I could go back I would do it myself and I'm sorry that everyone who ever knew you now thinks you're a murderer when you're not. 

'I'm sorry you won't be able to get a job, I'm sorry everybody thinks that you're some crazy killer. This is the truth and whoever is watching this, don't hate Tommy. 

'He's innocent. I'm not. I love you Tommy.'

 


 

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