Exactly a year after Caitlin Tracey was found dead after falling 20 stories from her husband’s South Loop high rise building, he was charged with first-degree murder in her death, Cook County court records show.

Tracey’s body was found Oct. 27, 2024, at the foot of a high rise building with a severed foot and questions immediately swirled about her husband, Adam Beckerink, who had a history of alleged domestic abuse. Beckerink, 47, was sentenced by a Michigan court last week to 93 days in jail and two years of probation for domestic abuse.

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.

Before her death, Tracey had obtained an order of protection against Beckerink in November 2023 after multiple domestic battery reports to Chicago police. She dropped the order of protection after he threatened to sue her for defamation, according to a petition by her parents to obtain custody of her remains after her death. A Michigan judge granted Tracey’s parents custody of her body and a Cook County judge made a similar ruling.

After Beckerink’s sentencing for the domestic abuse charge, Monica Tracey, Caitlin’s mother, said she saw a change in her daughter after she started dating him.

“Not long after the defendant pushed his way into Caitlin’s life, we witnessed the constant fear in our daughter,” Monica Tracey said during court proceedings in Michigan. “For over a year, we tried everything we could do to save her from him.”

Beckerink’s attorney and a spokesperson for Tracey’s family didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment.