Crime Fix with Angenette Levy - Husband Hurls Wife 29 Stories to Death in Luxury Condo: Cops

Episode Date: January 16, 2026

Adam Beckerink is now formally charged with murder in the death of his wife, Cailtyn Tracey, in October 2024. Chicago Police got a call in October 2024 that Tracey's pulverized body was at the bottom of a stairwell in Beckerink's condo building with her foot severed. Court documents revealed a history of domestic violence. Beckerink just wrapped up a jail sentence in Michigan for interferring with Caitlyn calling 911 earlier in 2024. Law&Crime's Angenette Levy has the latest on the disturbing case in this episode of Crime Fix — a daily show covering the biggest stories in crime.Host:Angenette Levy  https://twitter.com/Angenette5CRIME FIX PRODUCTION:Head of Social Media, YouTube - Bobby SzokeSocial Media Management - Vanessa BeinVideo Editing - Daniel CamachoGuest Booking - Alyssa Fisher & Diane KayeSTAY UP-TO-DATE WITH THE LAW&CRIME NETWORK:Watch Law&Crime Network on YouTubeTV: https://bit.ly/3td2e3yWhere To Watch Law&Crime Network: https://bit.ly/3akxLK5Sign Up For Law&Crime's Daily Newsletter: https://bit.ly/LawandCrimeNewsletterRead Fascinating Articles From Law&Crime Network: https://bit.ly/3td2IqoLAW&CRIME NETWORK SOCIAL MEDIA:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lawandcrime/Twitter: https://twitter.com/LawCrimeNetworkFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/lawandcrimeTwitch: https://www.twitch.tv/lawandcrimenetworkTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lawandcrimeSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Chicago attorney Adam Beckerink is now formally charged with murdering his wife, Caitlin Tracy, and he's back in the windy city to answer to those charges. I go through the case and what Caitlin's family is saying about it more than a year after her shocking and tragic death. Welcome to Crime Fix. I'm Ann Jeanette Levy. Adam Beckerank is now charged with murder and the death of his wife, Caitlin Tracy. This case, it's sad, it's shocking, and absolutely horrific. Caitlin was a beautiful 36-year-old woman and her family and police say she was the victim of domestic violence at the hands of her husband. Caitlin's body was found at the bottom of a stairwell in October of 2024 at Beckerink's swanky condo building in Chicago's South Loop. The abuse has been well documented in court filings where Caitlin's family went to court and asked to judge to release her remains to them following Caitlin's murder in October of 2024.

Adam Beckerink, as Caitlin's husband was her next of kin, and he wanted her body cremated following her death. But Caitlin's parents said, Beckerink was abusive and had beaten Caitlin and was the prime suspect in her murder. And the kicker, they said he wanted her body cremated because he was the suspect. The Tracys wanted a traditional Catholic funeral for their daughter with a burial. The judge sided with Caitlin's parents. It took a year of investigation, but right as Caitlin's parents, were marking the one-year anniversary of her death. Chicago police announced they would pursue a murder charge against Adam Beckerang for

Caitlin's murder. Now, this happened as he was being sentenced for a domestic violence incident against Caitlin at her home in New Buffalo, Michigan back in 2024 earlier in the year. Part of that was captured on bodyworn camera videos. Take a look. Wait, wait. Wait, be free, but wait. Seriously.

I can't get, I listen to me. Are you placed my father? Those two kids search me. You cannot search me. That's illegal. That's illegal. That's an illegal search. You know what it is?

That's an illegal search. Get off me. Get off me. Get off me. You know that's illegal. Let go on my hands. Adam, you're on the rest. For once.

You are right. You are right off. Let go off. Don't do it. Don't do it. Let go over your pocket. Let me talk to you. Please, please.

Please let me talk to you. Don't do that. Let go over your podcast. Don't do that. All right, I'll give my phone, too. Go. Let's my logo. I think it's going to hurt.

Please, please listen to you. Please listen to me. Please listen to me. We're going on a honeymoon. Guys, please. It's my phone. I'll get it for you. Damn it.

Damn it. Fugley. What the f*** is happening here? What the f*** is happening here? It's my phone to my lord. Yeah, I'm getting me out. I need to go to my... Honeymoon.

Can you just go talk to her, please? It's this stupid. Oh, now you're ripping my... I'll rip your shit. That's all this... That's my... Please... What are you doing? You got everything, alright?

Jesus Christ. Can I talk to you, please, before you shut this? Please, please, please can I just talk. Get a minute. Can't just the... Can't talk to you? Can't talk to you? Someone here?

All right. Can't touch somewhere? You're figuring the line. Go ask her. They said I have two phony ones. Okay. I don't. I'm in attorney.

Okay. So, so, I can go. Well, we'll be able to confirm that. We'll figure out. Yes, but this time hurts. All right. Well, you need to cooperate

and it'll be allowed to do things like adjust your cuffs. Hey, can you please just talk to me? No, now, no one's got to talk to me. I was going to fucking talk to me. Two grass, didn't it? Last fall.

Adam Beckerink was sentenced to 93 days in jail for that domestic violence incident involving Caitlin, where he interfered with her calling 911, and I'm going to show you more of that bodyworn camera footage in just a bit. Beckerink just finished up that stint in jail in Berry and County, Michigan. Now he's back in Chicago to answer to the murder charge in Caitlin's death. A warrant for Beckerank's arrest states, during the course of the death investigation conducted by Area 3 homicide, along with the Cook County State's attorneys, office. The investigation revealed the offender to be the individual who threw his wife down 29 stories, a stairwell, causing her death. This incident occurred on the 24th floor on today's date. The offender was extradited by A-slash-Os from Baryon County Jail in St. Joseph, Michigan, and transported to Area 3 for processing. A police report from October of 2024 right after Caitlin's murder offers some details about why Chicago police detectives believe Adam Beckerang. murdered Caitlin. The report states, during a death investigation of Caitlin Tracy, who was discovered in the stairwell of the condo, A-slash-D learned that Tracy fell from above the 20th story flight of stairs

causing fatal injuries. A-slash-D learned Tracy was reported missing by her husband Beckerink. A-slash-G spoke with Adam Beckerink about his wife, Caitlin Tracy, who he filed the missing person's report under H-48-4198 on. the 27th of October 24. Beckerink related that Tracy went missing on the 25th of October 24. Beckerink related that he was out of town the week he learned that Tracy went missing. A-slash-G discovered during the investigation video evidence from the 24th of October 2024 uncovered that Becker-Rank was in the residence the day before Tracy was reported missing. A-slash-G learned that Becker-Rank was with his wife on video in the residences when,

when he told reporting officers he was out of town when Tracy went missing. Beckerrank allowed A-Slas-D to view his and Tracy's phone, which appeared to have deleted messages that he stated was the way they were communicating before they went missing. Becker-Rink could not provide an explanation why messages were deleted from both phones. A-slash-D learned during the investigation that Becker-Rank and Tracy had a history of domestic violence incidents. Prior to Tracy going missing, she appeared to have injuries on the face that was

captured on video. A-slash-D placed Becker-Rank in custody for filing a false missing report of his wife Tracy. When Becker-Rank was placed in custody, he stated, is she alive? And is she okay? Now Becker-Rank, as I mentioned, is back in Chicago. He's being housed in the Cook County Jail and he's facing that murder charge in Caitlin's death. The Cook County State's attorney asked that Becker-Rank be held in jail until his trial. So I'd like to bring in Will Sveilar. He's a retired homicide detective with the Chicago Police Department. Will, Adam Becker-Rank, he is back in Chicago after serving that time, that 93-day jail sentence in Michigan for the incidents involving his now-deceased wife that he's charged with murdering in Chicago. So what do you expect to happen

now that he's back in Chicago? Well, now the legal aspect starts. Now the trial starts. He'll have his detention hearing where the attorneys will argue whether or not he should be released. Judge will make his decision. From then, they'll set an arraignment date. When he's arraigned, he'll be formally charged with the murders. And then you go on to pre-trial discovery, motions, and all the stuff that leads up to a trial. Eventually, you're going to get to the trial, which could be as many as two years before that happens. Wow.

Adam Beckerink has some high-powered attorneys. he's somebody of some means because he was a lawyer. We don't really, we don't have like a, you know, we don't have any information about his bank account, but he had a high powered attorney. So do you expect, obviously, a vigorous defense here? Yes, I believe he'll get the best defense money can buy or his money can buy anyway. And then they will try to, they will try to do anything they can't,

raise just a little scosh of reasonable doubt, which would get him acquitted. They're not going to let him out, you know, pending trial. You know, he's going to be held pending trial. He's somebody who, you know, we have body camera footage of him fighting police. They said he resisted. He said, I'm not resisting. Let me go.

Let me get out of here. But they're saying quit fighting us. I mean, when the cops say, you know, we're putting the cuffs on you, get in the car, you're not supposed to start wiggling around and telling them how it's going to be done. Well, you just said it. I mean, he has means. So when you make an argument as a prosecutor to detain somebody, you're going to make an argument that he's a flight risk and he's a danger to the community. Those are your two big arguments.

And the fact that he has means and he's got houses and, you know, he had a new Buffalo and he has the ways to get out of the country or at least out of the state or to flee, that's going to go to it. So he has means. We know these are danger of the community. Like you said, he fights with the police and, you know, he allegedly kills his wife and certainly beats her. He's convicted of that. So I doubt they're going to give him a bond. I would really be surprised. The probable cause statement is not very detailed.

I mean, they just have to, you know, it's a very low bar that they just have to show the judge, we believe this person committed this crime. all it says is the investigation revealed that Adam Beckerank is the person believed to have thrown Caitlin Tracy down 29 stories in this condo in October of 2024. I mean, it's a really horrific thing that he's accused of doing. What do you think that that investigation revealed? I mean, it took a while for them to investigate this. Well, I think there are what we call Detective Division Supplemental reports into that. investigation and it starts with a scene report that tells you everything you saw and then every step

of your investigation is documented on these detective subs and that's where you lay out the entire case. The arrest report is just going to, like you said, the thresholds low for probable cause on an arrest report. It's just I need to put something in the narrative of this arrest report to support the charges that I'm putting in the top part of the arrest report. So it's very basic. The whole story is told through detective subs and moving forward before he ends up going to trial on this, there's going to be two ways that he gets sent to trial. One is going to be by information in a probable cause hearing, which you don't see very often in murders. And the second way is information presented to a grand jury where they'll ask for a true bill and an indictment.

And I think that's the way it's going to go. In that, you're going to get more information, either through probable cause or through the grand jury, more information on the case will be laid out. You know, right now, we're in the very beginning, really, of the actual court process here, we have a long way to go. You think it's going to take, it could take two years to get to trial. You don't, you don't think he's going to ask for a speedy trial here. Well, I mean, when I talk about two years, it's about the average, you know, time that we see homicides going to trial. Now, he can speed it up, but that's up to his attorneys.

And anytime the trial gets, except for the next date, you go before the judge, it's either by agreement that they want to get a continuance or one makes a, a detainees. term makes a request for continuance and then a judge will decide whether or not it's granted. So a lot of that happens. And, you know, he's going to be doing county time until that gets set for trial, until he goes in trial. You know, so this is a guy, though, that has a history of violence against Caitlin Tracy. I mean, it's well documented. So I don't even know what the defense could be here. other than, I don't know if he's going to try to say that she, you know, did this to herself,

which would seem very unlikely, but there is a history here. Sure. And the prosecution's job is to prove it. Defense does not have to prove innocence. The prosecution has to prove guilt. So depending on what their defense is, it's going to be, I would imagine it's going to be along the lines of, listen, I didn't push her. We had a fight, but she fell or she jumped if you even present that type of defense.

but I think their defense is all going to be determined on how the prosecution lays out their case. So there's murders that I've been to where the defense doesn't even make a defense. They don't even have an argument. They just go and they say, listen, prosecution didn't prove their case. We're making a motion for directed finding. You know, this is a guy, though, that you can see his attitude in the bodyworn camera. He's asserting his innocence, too. When he was sentenced in the Burying County case in Michigan,

again, he said, he literally said to the court, I mean, he said he loved his wife, he would not hurt her. But there's a history. I mean, he had harmed her. It's well documented in court filings. She tried to get a restraining order against him. I don't know where you go with that. Yeah, I don't know what your defense can be on that other than the fact that, you know, I wasn't there. I wasn't there. I didn't do it. But I think, you know, when the case gets played out and when when the reports become part of evidence and part of discovery, you're going to find that they proved he was there. And again, I don't know what your defense could possibly be unless you try to plead it down

to a second degree sudden and intense passion where I was so angry, I didn't know what I was doing type thing. But I don't see, again, you don't know what the jury is going to do. Sympathetic jury, who knows? But I don't see what the defense could be. He was detained, too, at the very beginning of this for a period of time. time, I believe he was questioned. So he very well could have made a statement as well. He may, he may have given a statement to investigators in the beginning. If he did, it wasn't about guilt because

they released him after 48 hours, which is how long we can hold somebody before charging. And the thing is, that case was just in the beginning then. They probably had a very good idea then that this is the guy who did it, but you have to process the evidence from inside the scene. And if you don't have any of that evidence, you cannot hold somebody past the 48 hours. So I think they knew they had their man in the beginning, but if you don't have the evidence, you can't hold them. How important do you think that digital and electronic evidence will end up being in this case? You know, more and more on all the cases towards the end of my career that I was working, the electronic evidence is key and it's crucial. And it's how it's presented, how it's collected and how it's presented.

Back in the beginning when we were starting to pick up, you know, ring cameras and surveillance videos, we weren't really sure how to do it. But we got trained up on it and we had text trained up on it. And now it's really, it's, it's very valuable evidence and it's, it's crucial to prosecutions. It really can be. It really is at times. I will be interested to see how this case unfolds. Will Sveilar.

Thank you so much. My pleasure. The judge presiding over Adam Beckerink's case denied a request from the media to have cameras in the courtroom for the proceedings on Friday. And Beckerang's request for bail was denied after a lengthy hearing in Cook County. during that hearing, prosecutors revealed that Becker-Rink's DNA was found on the door to the stairwell at his condo building, but Caitlin's was not. Becker-Rank's attorney suggested that Caitlin may have actually harmed herself in that stairwell, so her DNA not being on that doorknob might be significant. Now let's get back to that body-worn camera footage from 2024, from the incident in Michigan.

Can I get out of here? That d-a-c-c-c-c... Come on! Took this too far again. Too-fowing words, my ass. Alright, this is ridiculous now. Come on. Hey, excuse me.

Hello? Hello? Can you just open the door? It's hot. It's these... things off me. Please. Please get these things off me. You have no reason to take me to jail. Jesus Christ. Hey, can I get a second? You know, the longer it takes for them to say something to her, the more it is not legal, right?

Can you guys just get these, hey. Just let me go home then. Jesus Christ. That's why, computers turned off. 40. I don't know. People. Beckering is incredibly unhappy that he's in handcuffs and he wants to talk to Caitlin. And she's not saying anything. I already heard it on the radio. She's not saying, so you already lost your witness. And you entered my house without authority.

I didn't do any of that. Well, someone did. You can deal with it at some point. Yeah, so I'll get all the badges and all of the badges and everything. What are they coercing her up there? What are they doing? I mean, how many questions do you have to have? Do you hurt you?

I already heard on the radio she's not saying anything. So how many times are they going to ask her? 18 until she actually says something? or were they given her something? Spiel. That's not a spiel. That's exactly what it is. She said she was.

I heard on the radio. The officers talk about a prior call to Caitlin Tracy's house where they found her injured. What were we dispatched to? It was not even a domestic. I showed up and she was bleeding all over her face. And he had hit her good.

And then he stole like 20 grand. She's got a lot of money. He stole 20, 30 grand worth of her stuff. I took off in this range rover right here, drove through somebody's yard. We couldn't find a vehicle. The courts issued the warrants. We kept them because we knew we were going to have more problems here. I showed up to the front door, which was cracked.

And I heard her yell. I heard screaming, very faint screaming. And then I announced police, police, and I heard her yelling. So I made my way in. I had him at Taser Point. He wasn't listening. But yeah, we're definitely going to need a welcome party for that guy. So right now, Adam Beckerank remains in the Cook County Jail in Chicago.

When he was sentenced for the Michigan incident, he said that Caitlin wanted the abuse charges in Michigan dropped and that they had a great life. So right now, he remains in the Cook County Jail. He will not be getting bail. And that's it for this episode of Crime Fix. I'm Ann Jeanette Levy. Thanks so much for being with me. I'll see you back here next time.