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 Dec. 2 for the Feb. 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. on the day of the crime.

Initially, Wilcox claimed she did not know who had hurt Rodgers, according to court documents The Chicago Sun Times.

As police tended to Rodgers in the bathroom as he bled from the wound to his abdomen, Wilcox reportedly appeared “distressed but otherwise clean and free of blood.”

Before the friend succumbed to his injuries, he allegedly told police, paramedics and hospital staff that Wilcox had stabbed him.

As she waited for police to take her in for questioning, court records show the woman “commanded her Google device to play several songs and danced as she sat handcuffed in the living room.”

Prosecutors said she stabbed Rodgers in self-defense while they were fighting and was released without charges.

Officers found a large bloody knife next to the apartment’s sink. Tests showed Wilcox’s DNA was on the knife handle and Rodgers’ blood was on the blade.

Wilcox was charged with first-degree murder on December 2. She was ordered held without bail pending trial. Her next court appearance is scheduled for December 24.

In a similar case outside 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 apartment in October, according to court documents seen by DailyMail.com .

Chicago police rushed to the scene and arrested 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 property developer Andrew Tracey, 69, and university professor Dr. Monica Tracey, 65, against Beckerink for custody of their daughter’s remains.

Beckerink, a former partner at the international law firm Duane Morris who was married to Tracey for six months, argued that as her surviving spouse he had rights to her body.

But her family hit back on November 6, accusing him of waging a “campaign of abuse and terror” against their daughter during her final months, allegedly throwing a glass pickle jar at her head and pouring vodka on her wounds .

Amid the bitter battle for control over her body, her parents accused Beckerink of “manipulating” their daughter, “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 was dancing around the living room of her apartment on the 6200 block of N. Hoyne Ave (pictured) when police arrested her

To support their argument, the Michigan-based family filed a now-withdrawn petition that Tracey had filed in 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 described three examples of horrific attacks by the tax attorney.

Tracey said Beckerink stripped her naked and attacked her on July 11, 2023, around 3 p.m., at her three-story home in New Buffalo on the shores of Lake Michigan, where her parents said she lived close to them and away from her partner.

“(Beckerink) physically assaulted me by throwing a pickle jar, hitting me on the head, hitting me, pushing me, pulling my hair, dragging me by my clothes, and stripping me of my clothes,” Tracey wrote in the petition seen by DailyMail.com.

“(He) also poured vodka on my body, which burned my wounds, and he moved 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 for an ‘open head wound’.