'Nightmare on Hickory Street' Suspect Told Detectives Girlfriend Had Interest in Necrophilia

One of the women charged with the Nightmare on Hickory Street murders was intrigued by necrophilia and hoped to have sex with a corpse someday, her occasional boyfriend told detectives grilling him about the killings.

Joshua Miner recalled his lover Alisa Massaro telling him about her death-sex fetish “back in the day.”

“If I could ever find a stiffy with a stiffy I’d ride on it,” Miner said Massaro told him.

And after Miner, 26, and his new pal Adam Landerman, 21, allegedly strangled two men to death in her Hickory Street home, Massaro might have had her chance. But Miner came up with a different idea.

“I said, ‘Let’s have sex on the bodies,’” Miner told the detectives, remembering how Massaro then looked at him with a “sly little smile.”

Miner said they set up a makeshift bed on the bodies of slain 22-year-olds Terrance Rankins and Eric Glover and that Landerman joined in with him and Massaro, but they didn’t keep at it for long. There were “performance-anxiety” issues, Miner said, “plus it was weird and everything.” He also said they were only at the “edge of the bed” they made on top of the bodies.

Miner, Massaro, 20, Landerman and Bethany McKee, 20, all were arrested the day after the Jan. 9, 2013 murders. The four killed Rankins and Glover after Massaro and McKee lured them to the Hickory Street nightmare house, according to police reports obtained exclusively by Patch.

Not long after Rankins and Glover arrived, Miner and Landerman throttled the two men to death, the reports said. Miner and his friends hatched the plot to murder Rankins and Glover because they were broke and wanted to buy cigarettes and alcohol, prosecutor Tricia McKenna said during McKee’s murder trial last month.

McKee was found guilty and will be sentenced to life in prison. Landerman remains locked up in the Will County jail while he awaits his own murder trial. Massaro managed to wriggle 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. A video of his interrogation by police was played Wednesday and Thursday.

Miner spent hours telling the detectives he only strangled Rankins because he had tried to rape McKee. He claimed Landerman then “saved” him from Glover, killing him in the process.

Hours later, Miner admitted to making the rape story up. He said McKee suggested inviting Rankins over and robbing him but he wanted nothing to do with it. Landerman initiated the killings by demanding Glover give up his money, Miner said.

The detectives noticed a wound on Miner’s arm and he told them he inflicted it himself after finding out Massaro had sex with another man the day before.

Back in August 2013, McKee said in a letter that she was driving after drinking and doing drugs the night before the murders while Rankins rode in the passenger seat and Landerman, Massaro and another man cavorted naked in the back. Massaro said she was pulled over by police but the cops let her go with just a ticket for speeding.

“On January 9, 2013 I Bethany McKee was hanging out drinking alcohol & smoking weed with Alisa Massaro, Adam Landerman, Michael Chobin & Terrance ([I’m] not sure [of] his last name),” McKee wrote.

“Aro(und) 12:15 or so we all got in my (mom’)s van me in (the) driver’s seat, Terrance in (the) passenger & Alisa, Chobin & Adam naked in (the) back,” the letter said.

The Joliet police chief at the time, Mike Trafton, declined to discuss the traffic stop or the claims in the letter. He cited a gag order issued in response to Patch’s coverage of the case.

Go take a look at our Facebook page.