An area native has been charged in Chicago with murder one year after his wife was found dead at the bottom of a stairwell in a high-rise condo building in Chicago.

Adam Beckerink, 47, of Chicago, is a Frewsburg native. He was charged in late October first first-degree murder in the death of his wife, Caitlin Tracey. Tracy’s body was found in October 2024 with a severed foot, skull and rib fractures.

He had pleaded no contest four days earlier domestic violence charges filed after a pair of incidents at Tracey’s home in Michigan. Beckerink was sentenced to three months in jail related to that incident, according to NBC Channel 5 in Chicago, as well as no contest to a charge of contempt of court after allegedly appearing at a court-ordered drug test intoxicated and defecating on the floor, according to ABC Channel 7 in Chicago.

Beckerink had been a partner in a law firm in Chicago before he was fired after Tracey’s parents alleged in court documents that Beckerink had physically abused their daughter in Michigan.