“Suitcase Killer” Heather Mack is amongst a gaggle of ladies claiming to have been sexually abused by a former corrections officer at Chicago’s Metropolitan Corrections Middle, The Submit can reveal.
Brittany Corridor, 31, was indicted by a federal grand jury on March 6 — charged with sexually abusing 4 inmates whereas she was the guard in control of supervising the MCC’s Unit 12.
Corridor, who resigned from the US Bureau of Prisons final yr, has pleaded not responsible to the fees, which carry a most sentence of greater than 80 years.
Corridor labored at MCC whereas Mack — who’s serving 26 years for conspiring to kill her socialite mom at a luxe Indonesian resort in 2014 — was detained there between November 2021 and September 2024. Mack has since been transferred to a correctional institute in West Virginia.
Sources confirmed to The Submit that Brittany Corridor was current at Mack’s January 2024 sentencing in Chicago’s Dirksen US Court docket, and this reporter additionally noticed Corridor within the courtroom.
Textual content messages considered by The Submit present Mack and Corridor corresponded through a 3rd celebration each earlier than and after the sentencing, and made clear Mack had already informed her attorneys in regards to the alleged abuse and didn’t need to keep up a correspondence with Corridor.
“Ask her why I’m blocked,” considered one of Corridor’s texts learn.
Mack was 18 and pregnant when she went on trip to Bali along with her mom, Chicago socialite Sheila von Wiese-Mack, in August 2014. Ten days into the journey, she used her mom’s bank card to purchase her boyfriend, Tommy Schaefer, a $12,000 aircraft ticket to the island.
Inside hours of his arrival on the St. Regis resort, von Wiese-Mack was lifeless — bludgeoned by Schaefer with a steel fruit bowl as Mack watched. The couple stuffed the physique right into a suitcase, loaded it into the trunk of a taxi and fled the scene. When the cab driver seen the bag was leaking blood, he alerted police. Mack and Schaefer had been arrested at a finances resort the next morning.
Schaefer was discovered responsible of first-degree homicide and is now ten years into his 18-year sentence at Bali’s infamous Kerobokan Jail.
Mack was dealt a 10-year sentence for her function however launched in November 2021 after serving seven years. She was deported to her hometown of Chicago along with her daughter Stella, now 10, who was born in a Bali jail.
Upon arriving at O’Hare Airport, Mack was arrested and detained on the MCC. In June 2023, Mack pleaded responsible to conspiring to kill and was ultimately sentenced to 26 years in jail.
The 2014 killing of Sheila von Wiese transfixed the world when it emerged that she was the widow of the famed musician and educator James L. Mack. He was a daily conductor for the Chicago Sympathy Orchestra and an in-demand arranger and composer who labored with the legendary musician Ramsay Lewis and singer Nancy Wilson.
His daughter was raised in a $1.5 mansion in Chicago’s prosperous Oak Park the place her mom Sheila, a political-science graduate, staged Paris-style salons for literary occasions and chamber music concert events.
Mack was set to be the beneficiary of a $1.6 million belief from her mom.
Andrea Dixon is writing “American Matricide — the Heather Mack Story.”
ondz@ymail.com
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