Distraught Father's Call to Cops Played in Hickory St. Nightmare Murder Trial

Prosecutors in the Nightmare on Hickory Street murder case played the shocking call to police made by the father of one of the alleged killers after she went to him for help with disposing of the bodies.

“My daughter just came to me with some information—she’s not here right now—but some information that she’s involved in a serious crime,” Bill McKee told a Wescom emergency dispatcher after his daughter, Bethany McKee, 20, visited him in the wake of the January 2013 double murder.

Bethany McKee’s murder trial started Monday morning. She is the first of the Nightmare on Hickory Street crew to have her case tried.

Two of Bethany McKee’s friends, Joshua Miner, 26, and Adam Landerman, 21, both of Joliet, remain in the Will County jail awaiting their own trials. A third pal, Alisa Massaro, 20, of Joliet, squirmed out of the murder case in May by copping a plea to reduced charges of robbery and concealing homicides. Prosecutors agreed to the plea deal to secure Massaro’s future testimony against her three alleged accomplices. She is scheduled to be released from prison in less than three and a half years.

McKee, Miner, Massaro and Landerman were charged with murdering Terrance Rankins and Eric Glover, both 22. The two young men were killed after Massaro and Bethany 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.

On the trial’s first day of testimony, one of Bethany McKee’s friends who was not involved in the murder, three Joliet police officers and the Wescom dispatcher who took Bill McKee’s call testified. And Bill McKee’s tape was played.

On the tape, the dispatcher, William Blaskey, asked if the “serious crime” already happened or was in the offing.

“Apparently it’s something that already happened,” Bill McKee said, telling Blaskey there were “two male blacks in a bathtub upstairs” in a Joliet house.

Bill McKee hesitated to tell the dispatcher the exact location of the house, but Blaskey said he had to “inform the officer when he gets here.”

“Oh crap,” Bill McKee replied. “The address is 1121 N. Hickory St.”

Blaskey went on to ask Bill McKee if his daughter had a hand in the murder. Bill McKee told him he believed she did.

“I said, ‘Are you involved?’ and she said, ‘Yes,’” said an audibly distressed Bill McKee.

“Oh crap,” Bill McKee said again. “How do you call on you own daughter like that? You know what I mean?”

Bethany McKee, Miner, Landerman and Massaro hatched the plot to murder Rankins and Glover because they were broke and wanted to buy cigarettes and alcohol, said Prosecutor Tricia McKenna.

“All of this went down for $120,” McKenna said, “which is pretty much what Bethany expected (Rankins) to have.”

Once Rankins and Glover were dead, the reports said, Massaro and Miner had sex atop their bodies. Massaro, Bethany 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 project, the reports said. Miner reportedly intended to keep the dead men’s teeth as trophies.

It was while the alleged killers were preparing to cut up Rankins and Glover that Bethany McKee went to her father for help, police said, and he instead called the cops.

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