Detective Who Grilled Joliet Man About Nightmare on Hickory St. Murders to Take Stand

The detective who questioned Joshua Miner after police found two dead men with plastic bags tied over their heads on the floor of a Joliet house will take the witness stand on the second day of the Nightmare on Hickory Street murder trial.

A video of Miner’s police interrogation will also be played Wednesday, an official said.

Miner, 26, allegedly murdered 22-year-olds Terrance Rankins and Eric Glover in January 2013. He was arrested along with three friends—Bethany McKee, 20, Adam Landerman, 21, and Alisa Massaro, 20.

Rankins and Glover were killed after Massaro and McKee lured them to Massaro’s home on Hickory Street, 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.

Miner’s trial started Tuesday morning. Six police officers testified over the course of the day. Three of the police officers told of Miner twice admitting to strangling one of the dead men. Two officers told of finding Landerman hiding in the basement of the house.

After Miner’s case finishes, likely early next week, only Landerman’s will remain. McKee was already convicted and will be sentenced to life in prison next month. 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.

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