Overview
- Judge Susana Ortiz granted a defense request to postpone Adam Beckerink’s detention hearing to Friday at 11:30 a.m., and he remains held at the Cook County Jail.
- Beckerink was extradited from Michigan after completing a 93-day sentence for domestic violence tied to incidents involving Tracey.
- He faces two counts of first-degree murder in Cook County in connection with the Oct. 25, 2024 incident at 1201 South Prairie Avenue.
- Charging documents allege he threw Tracey from a 24th-floor stairwell; the medical examiner ruled she died from multiple injuries from a fall, and a severed foot was found in the building.
- Police say Beckerink filed a misleading missing-person report before her body was discovered, with surveillance video contradicting his account.