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The tragic case of Sheila von Wiese

Lioness Rue
6 min readSep 6, 2023
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Note: This is a case full of confusing confessions. Reader discretion is advised.

It was approaching the dark hours of the day.

The police received a disturbing phone call from a taxi driver. The driver informed the police about something that was left in his car.

There was a suitcase containing a woman. She was almost entirely naked, mutilated, and drenched in blood.

The police retrieved messages that were exchanged six months earlier.

“So that b**** Heather is crazy huh. She asked me to do something really insane…

She asked me to find someone to kill her mom for 50k.”

Sheila Was a Sixty-Two-Year-Old Woman

Sheila von Wiese was a sixty-two-year-old mother from Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States.

She was a highly cultured woman.

Sheila’s husband, James L. Mack, was a jazz musician and composer.

James had children from previous relationships. And he was controlling and manipulative. So, his first wife…

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