Severed Foot 2nd Floor. Body on 5th: Jump? Fall? Thrown? Death of Caitlin Tracey

Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan

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🗓️ 4 November 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Caitlin Tracey is reported missing by her husband Adam Beckerink. He claims he hasn't seen his wife in a month. The next day, a foot is found on the second floor stairwell. A search of the rest of the stairwell inside the condo building and the body of Caitlin Tracey is discovered on the 5th floor. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack breakdown the relationship of Caitlin and Adam Beckerink, accusations of domestic violence, 911 calls, and the medical examiner report and what was found in the examination of Caitlin Tracey. Did she Jump? Did she fall? Was she thrown?

Transcript Highlights

00:00:00.07 Introduction

00:02:43.52 The death of Caitlin Tracey

00:05:21.13 Husband reports her missing, day before her body is found

00:11:11.78 Man found, public place, advanced decomposition

00:15:27.36 Every dead body is a murder until proven different

00:20:21.53 Not celebrating getting married

00:25:12.68 Domestic violence

00:30:26.91 Belt buckle struck victim on face and neck

00:35:06.87 People fall from height

00:40:09.43 Other insults on her body

00:45:50.38 Could a person thrown themselves over the side without hitting sides

00:50:30.29 Looking for bruising that doesn't match up

00:55:07.34 Old blood versus newer blood

00:57:13.23 Conclusion

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:05.5	Body Facts with Joseph Scott Moore.
0:09.9	When you work in the world of medical legal death investigation, you come across some interesting terminology as it applies to causal factors surrounding deaths.
0:23.6	You know, the way they're described.
0:27.5	Some of them sound quite bizarre.
0:31.6	And then you begin to look at it from the perspective of a forensic pathologist and the practical scientific application,
0:39.4	those sorts of things. And you begin to understand why they're saying it this way, but it's not
0:47.4	necessarily the way regular people talk. And it's amazing. Sometimes you'll get confusion, a confused response from an individual
0:58.7	when you tell them what a cause of death is, and it's because the wording is so bizarre.
1:07.0	I think the one that always baffled me and I guess I gave a little chuckle to was this one.
1:16.6	And I'll never forget the first time I heard it.
1:18.6	It was blunt force trauma secondary to rapid deceleration injuries.
1:28.3	Most of the time that applies to a vehicle, a motor vehicle accident.
1:35.3	But, you know, as we've talked before on body bags about certain types of injuries,
1:41.3	we know that blunt force trauma is the leading cause of death when it
1:46.2	comes to motor vehicle accidents. But you know, there's another category. Falls. Some of them are
1:55.0	super bizarre. Some of them are very straightforward. But today, we're going to talk about a lady who did take quite a fall
2:05.9	from 20 stories and she has sustained more injuries than some might be able to count
2:17.1	very complex we're going to talk about the death
2:23.5	of Caitlin Tracy. Coming to you from the beautiful campus of Jacksonville State University.
2:40.0	I'm Joseph Scott Morgan, and this is Body Bags.
2:47.0	Well, Brother Dave, as they say in Ireland, top of the morning, tulle you, it's good to see you, my friend.
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