For four hours Wednesday, Heather Mack sat nearly expressionless in a Chicago federal courtroom as her relatives called her a cold, calculating sociopath who plotted the murder of her own mother at a ...

Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Feb. 3, according to the Tribune’s archives. Is an important event ...

An American woman who pleaded guilty to helping kill her own mother and stuffing the body in a suitcase during a luxury vacation in Bali has been sentenced to more than two decades in prison. During a ...

Tommy Schaefer, the 21-year-old convicted of murdering his girlfriend Heather Mack’s mother, Sheila von Wiese-Mack, is demanding a portion of the $1.56 million trust fund that Mack’s mother set up for ...