A Michigan judge on Tuesday set a $2,000,000 bail for Adam Beckerink, the man accused of killing his estranged wife by throwing her from a 24th-floor stairwell at his South Loop condominium last year. Beckerink remains jailed in Berrien County, Michigan, serving a 93-day sentence for a domestic battery case involving the woman.
The Cook County warrant was issued Monday after Chicago police filed a complaint accusing Beckerink, 47, of killing 36-year-old Caitlin Tracey by throwing her over the east stairwell railing near his 24th-floor unit at 1201 South Prairie Avenue on October 25, 2024.
Tracey’s body was discovered two days later, on the evening of October 27, after a resident found a severed foot on a lower floor of the stairwell. Police later found the rest of her remains nearby. A family representative described her body as “pulverized.”…