Adam Beckerink, the man suspected in the death of his estranged wife Caitlin Tracey who plunged more than 20 floors from his South Loop high rise in 2024, is expected to be extradited back to Illinois from Michigan next week.
Beckerink, 47, completed a 93-day sentence for a domestic abuse charge he was serving at Berrien County Jail, Celena R. Herbert, captain at the Michigan jail, said. Tracey was the victim in the Michigan case. Court records show he was still in custody there Friday morning.
On the one-year anniversary of her death, Beckerink was named in an arrest warrant for murder, officials said.
Tracey’s body was found Oct. 27, 2024, at the foot of a high rise building in the 1200 block of South Prairie Avenue with a severed foot and questions immediately swirled about her husband, Adam Beckerink, who had a history of alleged domestic abuse against Tracey.
Beckerink, a Chicago-based tax attorney who was fired as a partner at Duane Morris LLP after the case became public, was briefly detained by police following Tracey’s death after police said he lied on a missing person report he filed for Tracey hours before her body was discovered. He said he had not seen her in a month, but his apartment building surveillance video footage had shown the two together on Oct. 24, days before she was found dead.
Berrien Jail officials say it’s possible Beckerink is extradited back to Illinois next week.