Heather Mack and her mother were all smiles in August 2014 as they posed for a photograph in the first-class cabin on a flight to Indonesia, a trip that was supposed to rekindle their fractured relationship.

       Five days later, Sheila von Wiese-Mack was found slain and stuffed in a suitcase at the Bali resort where they’d been staying, the victim of a “vicious” and premeditated plot by her daughter and her daughter’s boyfriend to kill her and live lavishly off the inheritance, federal prosecutors say.

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       Now, a decade after the gruesome crime, which sparked international media attention and led police on a trail back to suburban Chicago, the Mack case is approaching a closing chapter as she faces another sentencing hearing — this one in the U.S.