The husband of Caitlin Tracey, who is accused of pushing her off a 24-story stairwell at a South Loop condo building in 2024, was in court Thursday facing additional charges in connection with her death.Adam Beckerink 47, was charged with first-degree murder in Tracey’s death last month.During the brief hearing at the Leighton Criminal Court Building before Cook County Judge Joanne Rosado, Beckerink pleaded not guilty to new charges of concealment of homicidal death, making a false report to 911, and making a false report to a public safety agency as well as murder. Beckerink, whose wrists were shackled, was wearing a short-sleeved orange jumpsuit and did not appear show any emotion. Tracey’s parents were in attendance.Tracey, 36, was found dead Oct. 27 at the bottom of a stairwell in a South Loop high-rise after residents of the building found a severed foot in the stairwell. Prosecutors said Beckerink, a Chicago lawyer, pushed Tracey off of a 24th floor railing of their building in the 1200 block of South Prairie Avenue.Tracey had been in a relationship with Beckerink since 2022. They lived together at the South Loop condo, but Tracey also owned a home in New Buffalo, Michigan.Tracey obtained an order of protection against Beckerink in Cook County in 2023 after multiple domestic battery reports to Chicago police, but later dropped it after he threatened to sue her for defamation.Prosecutors said Tracey had disclosed to a court-appointed victim advocate that Beckerink had previously threatened to throw her over a flight of stairs.He served a 93-day sentence last year in the Berrien County jail in Michigan for domestic abuse against Tracey. He was arrested by Chicago police officers and U.S. Marshals Great Lakes Regional Fugitive Task Force after he was released on Jan. 12.Shortly before 11:30 p.m. Oct. 25, 2024, four residents in the South Loop high-rise reported hearing an “unusually loud noise” that sounded like something striking metal from inside the building’s stairwell, prosecutors said.Around 3 a.m. the next morning, surveillance camera footage showed Beckerink hauling a luggage cart filled with jackets and bags from the building’s parking garage.Later that day, Beckerink told the building’s concierge, whom he had befriended while living there, that Tracey had been missing since 10 p.m. the day before.Beckerink later filed a missing person report with Chicago police, telling officers that Tracey had left their home around 9 or 10 p.m. the night before to go for a run and didn’t bring her phone or keys with her. He also told officers that he had been in Michigan and hadn’t seen Tracey in more than a month, according to prosecutors. However, detectives found building surveillance video showing the two together on Oct. 24, according to a Chicago police report.Surveillance footage from the condo didn’t show Tracey leaving the building around the time that Beckerink had reported, prosecutors said.A day after Tracey’s body was found, Beckerink was arrested and accused of filing a false police report. He was later released without charges being filed.After Tracey’s death, her parents and Beckerink fought over the custody of her remains. A Michigan judge eventually granted custody to Tracey’s parents, and a Cook County judge later accepted that ruling.Beckerink is due back in court on March 18. ...read more read less