Chicago woman 'killed boyfriend, then ordered speaker to play music so she could dance while cops cuffed her'
A Chicago woman accused of fatally stabbing her boyfriend allegedly asked her speaker to play music so she could dance while police arrested her.
Whitney Wilcox, 40, was arrested on December 2 for the February 26 murder of her 43-year-old boyfriend Jeremy Rodgers.
Chicago police arrived at their shared apartment on the 6200 block of N. Hoyne Ave after Wilcox called for help at 2:20 a.m. the day of the crime.
Initially, Wilcox claimed she did not know who had hurt Rodgers, according to court documents viewed by The Chicago Sun-Times.
While police were attending to Rodgers in the bathroom bleeding from the wound to his abdomen, Wilcox reportedly appeared 'distressed but otherwise clean and free from blood.'
Before the boyfriend succumbed to his injuries, he allegedly told police, paramedics and the hospital staff that Wilcox stabbed him.
As she waited for cops to take her for questioning, court records state the woman 'ordered her Google device to play several songs and danced while handcuffed in the living room.'
Prosecutors said she stabbed Rodgers in self-defense as they were fighting and she was released without being charged.
Whitney Wilcox, 40, was arrested on December 2 for the February 26 murder of her 43-year-old boyfriend Jeremy Rodgers
Officers recovered a large bloody knife next to the kitchen sink from the apartment. Testing determined that Wilcox's DNA was on the handle of the knife and Rodgers' blood was on the blade.
Wilcox was charged with first-degree murder on December 2. She was order to be held without bail pending trial. Her next court appearance is schedule for December 24.
In a similar case out of Chicago, the body of Caitlin Walch Tracey, 36, was found 'pulverized' and missing a foot in the stairwell of her partner Adam Beckerink's luxury South Loop condo in October, according to court documents seen by DailyMail.com.
Chicago Police Department cops rushed to the scene and detained Beckerink, 46, who had reported his wife missing the day before. They released him after 48 hours without filing any charges.
In the weeks that followed, Tracey's heartbroken parents, retired real estate developer Andrew Tracey, 69, and college professor Dr Monica Tracey, 65, battled against Beckerink for custody of their daughter's remains.
Beckerink, a former partner of international law firm Duane Morris who had been married to Tracey for six months, argued that he had the rights to her body as the surviving spouse.
But her family hit back on November 6, accusing him of wreaking a 'campaign of abuse and terror' against their daughter during her final months, including allegedly throwing a glass pickle jar at her head and pouring vodka on her wounds.
Amid the acrimonious wrangling for control of her body, her parents accused Beckerink of ‘manipulating’ their daughter, of ‘purposefully isolating her from her family’ and being responsible for her ‘tragic and highly suspicious death’.
Wilcox allegedly told her Google device to play music and she danced around the living room of her apartment on the 6200 block of N. Hoyne Ave (pictured) when police detained her
To support their argument, the Michigan-based family presented a since-rescinded petition Tracey made to Cook County Court a year before she died in a desperate attempt to obtain a restraining order against her husband.
In her October 4, 2023 filing, Tracey detailed three examples of horrific attacks by the tax attorney.
Tracey said that on July 11, 2023, at around 3pm, Beckerink stripped her naked and attacked her at her three-story home in New Buffalo on the banks of Lake Michigan, where her parents said she lived to be close to them and away from her partner.
‘(Beckerink) physically abused me by throwing a pickle jar, which struck me on my head, punching me, pushing me, pulling my hair, dragging me by my clothes, and stripping me out of my clothes,' Tracey wrote in the petition seen by DailyMail.com.
'(He) also poured Vodka on my body, which burned my wounds, and would motion as if he was going to hit me with the alcohol bottle’.
Tracey said she managed to escape on foot, before her husband later took her to hospital for treatment to an 'open head wound'.
