Crime & Safety

Hickory St. Nightmare Corpse-Sex Gal Wrote Pal: 'I'm Not Dumb Enough To Be In Jail For The Rest Of My Life'

Alisa Massaro also denied lying to the cops and said she did not have sex on top of two dead men.

The woman prosecutors granted a sweet plea deal in exchange for ratting on her co-defendants in the Nightmare on Hickory Street Murder case bragged to a buddy that she was too smart to be locked up.

“I don’t belong here,” Massaro, 20, said in a letter. “I’m not dumb enough to be in jail for the rest of my life.”

Massaro spent all of Thursday morning on the witness stand and she’s not done with her day in court yet. She was called to testify in the murder trial of Bethany McKee. McKee, 20, is the first of three young people charged with the January 2013 murders of 22-year-olds Terrance Rankins to stand trial.

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Massaro won’t be going to trial at all. The deal she brokered with prosecutors allowed her to squirm out of the murder case by pleading to robbery and concealing homicides. Looking at a life sentence before pleading, Massaro is now supposed to be released from prison in less than three and a half years.

McKee’s attorney, Chuck Bretz, hammered away at Massaro, who at first denied lying to the police during her interrogation. She eventually admitted her dishonesty after Bretz confronted her with numerous false statements she made to detectives. A tearful, snuffling Massaro explained her dissembling by saying she was “scared.”

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Bretz also asked Massaro about having sex with her then-boyfriend Joshua Miner atop the dead bodies of Rankins and Glover. Massaro told detectives she had sex with Miner on the corpses, according to police reports obtained exclusively by Patch.

In court Thursday, Massaro denied doing so.

Massaro did testify that she, McKee, Miner, 26, and another friend, 21-year-old Adam Landerman, plotted to lure Rankins and Glover to Massaro’s Hickory Street home so they could rob them.

They were driven to violence and theft because they were out of booze and cigarettes and needed money, Massaro said.

Massaro said she knew Rankins through McKee and remembered him as a sharp-dresser who carried around a lot of money.

After Rankins and Glover arrived with a bottle of tequila, the group drank, played video games and socialized, Massaro said. She told how Miner gave the signal that the robbery was about to go down by dragging his hand across his neck as if he was slashing his throat.

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