Crime & Safety
Defense Attorney Wants Hickory St. Nightmare Corpse Sex Gal's Interrogation Video Played
The attorney for alleged Nightmare on Hickory Street murderer Bethany McKee believes he can impeach a witness with the video.

Prosecutors are set to rest their case against alleged Nightmare on Hickory Street killer Bethany McKee and the young woman’s lawyers plan to kick off their defense by playing the video of star witness Alisa Massaro’s police interrogation.
Massaro, 20, testified against McKee, also 20, last week. Prosecutors secured that testimony by granting Massaro a sweet plea deal, allowing her to cop to reduced charges that will see her walk out of prison in less than three and a half years. Massaro had been looking at a possible life sentence.
The last prosecution witness, Dr. Valerie Arangelovich, took the stand Monday morning. Arangelovich said McKee’s two alleged victims, Terrance Rankins and Eric Glover, 22, had been strangled to death. Rankins and Glover’s bodies also bore signs of being beaten, Arangelovich said, but the blows did not contribute to their deaths.
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McKee and Massaro, along with Adam Landerman, 21, and Joshua Miner, 26, were arrested on murder charges after Rankins and Glover were killed in January 2013 .
McKee, Miner, Landerman and Massaro hatched the plot to kill Rankins and Glover because they were broke and badly wanted to buy booze and cigarettes, said prosecutor Tricia McKenna.
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Massaro and McKee lured the two young men to Massaro’s home on Hickory Street, according to police reports obtained exclusively by Patch.
Soon after Rankins and Glover arrived, Miner and Landerman strangled them and went through their pockets looking for cash.
Once Rankins and Glover were dead, the reports said, Massaro and Miner had sex atop their bodies. Massaro, McKee, Miner and Landerman then concocted a plan to dismember the corpses of their victims and began procuring supplies, including a blowtorch, to carry out the plan, the reports said. Miner reportedly intended to keep the dead men’s teeth as trophies.
McKee was at Massaro’s home with her baby daughter but left the room before the killings, the reports said. McKee later took off from the house and met with her father, Bill McKee, in hopes he would help dispose of the bodies, police said. Bill McKee instead called the cops.
Defense attorney Chuck Bretz repeatedly attacked Massaro’s credibility when she was on the witness stand last week, at one point asking if she is now a “reformed liar.”
Bretz said Monday morning he wants to use Massaro’s interrogation video to impeach her credibility.
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