Alleged Hickory St. Nightmare Killer Bragged To Cops About How Good He Is At Fighting

After he and a buddy allegedly strangled two men to death in the Hickory Street home of his sometime-girlfriend, Joshua Miner bragged to detectives about how good he is at fighting and told of the 10 or so people he choked until they passed out.

“I don’t mind fighting,” Miner, 26, told two Joliet detectives during his Jan. 10, 2013, interrogation.

“I prefer not to fight,” Miner said humbly, adding, “Back in the day I used to love it.”

And Miner, a self-proclaimed Juggalo, said he was really good at it too.

“I’ve actually knocked out people, probably more than 10” by choking them, he said, telling how “they’ll shake and get limp, and I’ll just let them go.”

Miner explained how he honed his fighting skills in the backyards of Joliet.

“I’ve done back yard wrestling,” he said.

“Me and my boys box and fight all the time,” he said. “I’ve choked out people and they tap me and I let them go.”

Miner’s accomplishments in the field of choking others were revealed when a video of his interrogation was played during his murder trial Wednesday afternoon.

Miner was charged with the January 2013 murders of Terrance Rankins and Eric Glover, both 22. Arrested along with him was occasional girlfriend Alisa Massaro, 20, as well as new buddy Adam Landerman, 21, and Massaro’s friend Bethany McKee, 20.

McKee was found guilty last month and will be sentenced to life in prison. Landerman remains locked up in the Will County jail while he awaits trial. Massaro was much luckier. She slipped out of the murder case in May when she copped a plea to reduced charges of robbery and concealing homicides. In exchange, she agreed to testify against her three friends. She already did so at McKee’s trial.

Miner’s trial started Tuesday.

After his arrest, Miner was held and questioned over the course of 24 hours, said prosecutor John Connor. About an hour’s worth of the highlights were played Wednesday with more to come Thursday.

On the video, Miner claims he rescued McKee from a sexual assault at the hands of Rankins. Landerman then “saved” him from an attack by Glover, Miner said, and ended up killing the yioung man in the process.

Massaro and McKee told the same sex assault story during their own interrogations before admitting it was a lie and that the plan all along was to rob Rankins and Glover.

Miner told the detectives he realized he might be sent to prison for the rest of his life but held out hope he might be locked up for far less long.

“There was no intention of killing anyone,” he said. “Even if it’s self-defense I’ll still probably have to serve five years or whatever.”

During the interrogation, Miner, who has a Hatchet Man tattoo on his neck, wore an Insane Clown Posse T-shirt he said might have been stained by Rankins’ blood. He agreed to let the police look through his cell phone but warned them that what might appear to be a threatening text to Massaro about one of her old boyfriends was actually nothing more than a joke.

Incidentally, Miner beat that old boyfriend up numerous times, he told police, but they later became Facebook friends.

“Tell that mother----r you don’t f—k with a true psychopathic road clown,” Miner told the detectives his message said. “I’ve got bodies. Next time I call just answer.”

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