Hickory Street Killings Were Nothing But A Fight Gone Too Far: Miner

Josh Miner and Bethany McKee got life in prison for planning a robbery and killing the two men they ripped off for drugs and money.

But McKee, 20, never touched anyone, was never even in the room when the killings were carried out. And Miner claims there was no plan to rob or murder anyone. He said he just didn’t get along with Terrance Rankins and Eric Glover, both 22.

Miner met the two young men for the first time that night in January 2013 and didn’t like them, he said, so he ordered them to leave the home of his girlfriend, 21-year-old Alisa Massaro.

Glover and Rankins refused to go, Miner said, so he swung at one of them —he’s still not sure which of the two men he hit and ended up strangling — and a fight broke out.

“I put him in a headlock and I’m still hitting him and everything, and his buddy comes up and f---ing like shoves me down,” Miner said, telling how during the dustup he took a kick to the face.

“So eventually Adam came like, ‘Come on man, one-on-one, one-on-one,’” Miner said, recalling how the other man ignored Landerman and continued to attack him.

“And the dude hits me again, and Adam finally like takes him, pulls him back into the living room,” Miner said. “I don’t know what they do.”

The fight went on, Miner said, until Rankins and Glover were dead.

“I’m holding him and finally he stops moving, and from what I heard in the trial, like I guess I was holding him like way too long, because he was still moving,” Miner said. “In my mind he was still moving, but the lady (testifying at his murder trial) was saying he was spazzing out or whatever.”

This is the fifth in a series of videos made of Miner at maximum security Menard Correctional Center, where he is doing life for killing Rankins and Glover. Warning: Some of the videos include graphic descriptions of sexual situations and violence, and Miner occasionally uses obscenities. DO NOT WATCH THESE VIDEOS IF YOU THINK YOU WILL BE OFFENDED.

After killing the man he had just met, who was later identified by police as Rankins, Miner said he went to check on Landerman.

“Adam’s on the other guy’s back, holding his neck back like that and he’s like, ‘Oh, blah blah, f---, I heard his neck snap, he vomited on my coat,’” Miner recalled. “So I’m like, ‘Get off him.’”

Miner said he pulled the bodies into a spare room and straightened up a bit, then told the women, who had gone downstairs to get cigarettes from Massaro’s sleeping father, that Rankins and Glover were dead.

“And then Alisa was like, ‘What if they get up? What if they’re like zombies or something and they pop back up?’” Miner said. “Well, we laughed about that, f---ing joked and s---, f---ing … I tied them together, like together, and then the eyes, Alisa was like, ‘The eyes are freaking me out.’ So I put bags over their head, just put them over their head.”

Miner, Landerman, Massaro and McKee proceeded to put their minds together and brainstormed about how to get rid of the bodies.

“And then we’re like, ‘I really need a cigarette, we’re going to need a cigarette,’” Miner said. “And then Adam’s like, ‘Well, they’re supposed to have money, ain’t they?’ I’m like, ‘Oh s---, yeah.’”

Miner and Landerman rooted through the dead men’s pockets, Miner said, and came up with about $120 cash, a “couple bags of weed and a baggie of coke.” He gave the money to the women and told them to fill up McKee’s van with gas and bring back cigarettes.

Miner denied that he and the other three carried on all night, doing drugs, having sex and playing video games while Rankins and Glover lay dead in the house. In fact, he said, his PlayStation was stepped on and broken during the fight, and the slain men weren’t even around for all that long before the police showed up.

“They were there for, like, less than 12 hours, all together,” he said. “They were only in the other room for less than 12 hours.”

Check Joliet Patch Sunday morning for Josh Miner: The Nightmare Revealed, Part VI

And make sure to read:

• The Nightmare Revealed: Hickory Street Strangler Josh Miner Tells All
• Part I: Josh Miner Sawed Tongue in Half, Wanted to Transform Into Vampire Clown ‘Freak’
• Part II: Josh Miner Says He Was ‘Too Slow-Witted’ To Be Charles Manson Murder Mastermind
• Part III: Nightmare on Hickory Street Gals Got ‘Bogus’ Deal, Says Josh Miner, Even the Woman Doing Just 5 Years
• Part IV: Cop’s Kid Made Up Sex On Bodies Story To Trick Detectives Into Thinking He’s Crazy: Miner

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