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The Chicago tech executive who was found “pulverized” after plummeting more than 20 stories from a luxury condo in October reportedly begged police to “please hurry” in a chilling newly released 911 call made as her husband allegedly attacked her.
Caitlin Tracey, 36, told dispatchers her husband, Adam Beckerink, was “drunk” and had “pushed her down” during the distressing call — made about 10 months before her mutilated body was found in the stairwell of the ritzy South Loop building where she lived with her 46-year-old spouse.
“He’s assaulted me before,” the panicked wife said during the Jan. 13, 2024, emergency call, obtained by the Daily Mail.
“Please hurry.”
Tracey’s desperate cry for help, made around 8:30 p.m., soon became incoherent due to her “highly emotional state,” the outlet reported.
Police responded to her New Buffalo, Michigan, home — where she lived before and during her six-month marriage — and found the battered woman with visible injuries, including “cuts to her lips and other red markings” on her body, according to a felony complaint obtained by FOX 32.
Tracey told police that her prominent Chicago tax attorney husband, who fled back to Chicago before police arrived, had “assaulted her and stolen some of her items” following an argument, court documents showed.
Beckerink, who was later arrested and charged with domestic abuse, allegedly told his wife to tell officers her 911 call was “accidental,” the documents said.
In August 2024, police returned to the home following another domestic incident — with dispatchers hearing “yelling and commotion” before the call dropped, according to the Daily Mail.
The previous year, in November 2023, Tracey reportedly received a protective order against Beckerink in Chicago after multiple domestic battery reports to police — a case she later dropped.
Tracey died just days before her allegedly abusive husband, a now-fired former partner at corporate law firm Duane Morris, was scheduled to stand trial in Michigan — proceedings that have since been delayed multiple times, Fox 32 reported.
Beckerink was initially detained and questioned by Chicago police after he filed a missing persons report for Tracey before her body and severed foot were found on Oct. 27, 2024.
He was later released without charges.
The Cook County medical examiner ruled that Tracey died from “multiple injuries” due to a “fall from height,” though her manner of death remains “undetermined.”
No charges have been filed in connection to her gruesome demise.
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