The Chicago tech government discovered “pulverized” and lacking a foot on the backside of a staircase inside a luxurious condominium, was allegedly murdered by her husband, who’s at the moment locked up for assaulting her.
Adam Beckerink was charged with the brutal homicide of Caitlin Tracey inside his high-rise constructing in Windy Metropolis’s South Loop neighborhood on Oct. 27, 2024, in accordance with the Chicago Solar-Instances.
Tracey, 36, died of “a number of accidents” and a “fall from peak” after plummeting greater than 20 tales.
Tracey, the Chief Individuals Officer on the since-dissolved AI consultancy agency Nousot, had her foot severed in the course of the deadly fall.
Beckerink, 47, who had beforehand been arrested for home violence in opposition to his estranged spouse, was detained by police for submitting a false lacking individual’s report claiming he hadn’t seen her in over a month.
Video surveillance at his constructing captured the 2 collectively on Oct. 24, three days earlier than Tracey was discovered lifeless.
Precisely a 12 months after her dying, prosecutors charged Beckerink with first-degree homicide, in accordance with the outlet, citing court docket information.
“We dearly miss Caitlin as do her associates,” Tracey’s household advised the outlet in an announcement. “Our household hopes that in the course of the homicide case in opposition to Adam Beckerink, that the reality concerning the final months of Caitlin’s life and the occasions resulting in her tragic dying are revealed, so our fantastic daughter can lastly be laid to relaxation.”
The grieving family alleged that Tracey started appearing bizarre since she began seeing Beckerink.
“Not lengthy after the defendant pushed his method into Caitlin’s life, we witnessed the fixed concern in our daughter,” Tracey’s mom, Monica Tracey, stated throughout a court docket listening to in Michigan. “For over a 12 months, we tried all the pieces we might do to avoid wasting her from him.”
Beckerink is at the moment imprisoned on the Berrien County Jail in Michigan after a choose sentenced him to 93 days in jail for home violence and contempt of court docket costs on Oct. 20.
He pleaded no contest to home violence and contempt of court docket stemming from two incidents at Tracey’s house in New Buffalo, Michigan, in January and August 2024.
The Chicago-based tax legal professional was eviscerated by the older Tracey who claimed he took the plea deal to get out of describing the abuse her daughter confronted.
“Our daughter by no means stood an opportunity in opposition to this brute. She was overwhelmed, bruised and battered by this brute. After which he’s the final word controlling coward and took away her mobile phone when she tried to summon assist,” the heartbroken mom stated, in accordance to ABC7 Chicago.
Tracey had filed for a protecting order in opposition to her husband in November 2023 recalling the horrific abuse she confronted by the hands of her alleged future killer.
“Strangling me, suffocating me, slamming my head in opposition to a cupboard, placing my head in a headlock, pulling me away from the door,” Tracey advised her mother.
“The defendant stalked her, brutalized her, terrorized her and psychologically remoted her from household and associates,” Monica Tracey advised the court docket.
“It isn’t simply her dying that haunts us; it’s the slow-moving destruction of her life. That is now our household’s ongoing trauma, which we try to handle,” Tracey’s mom stated in court docket. “As a substitute of assembly my daughter for dinner, my husband and I go to her grave. There isn’t a justice that may heal our ache.”
Beckerink will stay locked up within the Michigan jail to serve out his sentence earlier than he can face the first-degree homicide cost, Berrien County Jail Chief Celena R. Herbert advised the Chicago Solar-Instances.
