A man who was just convicted for domestic violence against his late wife is now charged in Illinois for her murder, a year after she was found dead in their Chicago condo.

Adam Beckerink, 47, pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor domestic violence charge in Michigan's Berrien County last week and was sentenced to 93 days in jail plus two years' probation. That case closed just shy of a year after Beckerink's wife, 36-year-old Caitlin Tracey, was found dead at the bottom of a 24-story stairwell in the high-rise condo the couple shared in Chicago.

On Monday, court records showed that a charge of first-degree murder in connection with Tracey's death was filed against Beckerink in Cook County.

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