Background: News footage of Adam Beckerink in court in June (WLS). Inset: Caitlin Tracey (Michalik Funeral Home).
A man whose wife died after a 24-story fall in their condo in Illinois was sentenced for a separate domestic violence charge in their former home state of Michigan.
Adam Beckerink, 47, pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor domestic violence charge and was in court on Monday to learn his sentence. The domestic violence incident occurred in January 2024 and involved his wife Caitlin Tracey, 36, who died months later after falling 24 stories in a condo the couple shared in Chicago, Illinois.
As Law&Crime previously reported, Beckerink was arrested in March by police in Cook County on the domestic violence charge warrant out of Michigan. The warrant stemmed from Beckerink”s failure to appear in court in connection with the domestic violence charge, a hearing that he missed because he was still in Chicago being questioned about his wife’s sudden death.
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During the Jan. 13, 2024, incident between Beckerink and Tracey, police observed that Tracey “had cuts on her lips and other red markings.” Tracey had also claimed that her husband had allegedly “assaulted her and stolen some of her items.”
Chicago-based ABC affiliate WLS reported that during a hearing in June related to the domestic violence case, bodycam video from an August 2024 domestic violence incident between Beckerink and Tracey could be shown at trial. That trial was not to be, after Beckerink pleaded no contest to domestic violence and contempt of court.
On Monday, Beckerink was sentenced to 93 days in jail plus two years probation for interfering with a 911 call. A charge of resisting arrest was dismissed. WLS reported that he could be released after 72 days because of time served.
Beckerink has not been charged in the death of his late wife, whose “pulverized” body was found on Oct. 27, 2024, at the bottom of a stairwell in the Chicago high-rise where they had a condo. Tracey’s manner of death was stated to be undetermined. Cook County authorities still consider Beckerink to be a suspect in Tracey’s death.
