CHICAGO (CBS) – A Cook County judge has cleared the way for the parents of a woman who was found dead in the South Loop last month to take her body back home with them to Michigan, following a dispute with the woman’s husband, because of a history of domestic violence allegations.
On Friday, Judge Eve Reilly lifted a restraining order that had prevented the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office from releasing Caitlin Tracey’s remains after a Michigan judge ruled earlier this week that Tracey’s parents should take custody of her body.
Tracey’s family did not want her husband to have her remains because of a history of domestic violence allegations. Court records show that Tracey had obtained a restraining order against her husband, and that he was facing domestic violence charges in Michigan at the time of her tragic and still-mysterious death.
Reilly’s ruling on Friday will allow Tracey’s parents to take custody of her body and return to Michigan for funeral arrangements.