Killer's Dad Launches Blog Seeking 'The Truth About the Nightmare on Hickory Street'

Even after attending each day of his daughter’s murder trial, Bill McKee believes the real story of how two men ended up strangled to death in a house on Joliet’s Hickory Street remains untold.

McKee’s daughter, 20-year-old Bethany McKee, was found guilty of killing both Terrance Rankins and Eric Glover despite not even being in the same room when they were slain. She started serving her life sentence for the murders last week.

Unable to come to grips with losing his daughter to prison, Bill McKee launched a blog questioning the conventional wisdom of the murder case.

“Our story hasn’t been heard yet, and the truth needs to be told,” Bill McKee says in his blog.

“Bethany McKee is being viewed as a monster when she is nothing of the sort,” he wrote. “If you were to sit down and have a conversation with her, you would see the person she really is, but no one cares to get to know a misunderstood individual.”

Bill McKee confirmed he is the author of the blog, which also includes postings from Bethany’s younger sister, Trisha McKee.

Bethany McKee was arrested on murder charges in January 2013 along with her childhood friend Alisa Massaro, 20, Massaro’s boyfriend, Joshua Miner, 26, and a another Joliet man, Adam Landerman, 21.

Miner strangled Rankins, 22, to death and Landerman allegedly throttled Glover, also 22, but the women were also charged with the double slaying because the deaths resulted from a plot to rob the young men.

Miner confessed to coming up with the robbery scheme. He and his friends got the idea to rip off Rankins and Glover because they were broke and wanted to buy cigarettes and alcohol, prosecutor Tricia McKenna said during Bethany McKee’s trial.

Bethany McKee and Massaro lured Rankins and Glover to Massaro’s Hickory Street nightmare house but left the room while Landerman and Miner carried out the killings, according to police reports obtained exclusively by Patch.

After the two men were dead, Miner, Bethany McKee, Massaro and Landerman used their money to buy cocaine, gasoline and cigarettes. Massaro and Miner later had sex atop the corpses of their victims.

Like Bethany McKee, Miner was sentenced to life in prison. Landerman, the son of Joliet police Sgt. Julie Larson, remains locked up in the Will County jail while he waits on his own murder trial to start. He is not scheduled to appear in court again until after the New Year.

Massaro, who Bill McKee accused of being a bad influence on his daughter, made out a lot better than her longtime pal. She squirmed out of the murder case in May by copping a plea to reduced charges of robbery and concealing homicides. She was sentenced to five years in prison but will be released within four years of striking her deal.

Massaro’s plea deal doesn’t sit well with Bill McKee.

“She has just gotten away with murder,” Bill McKee said in his blog. “She (Alisa) is also one of the participants along with josh who had sex on top of the deceased bodies. How much sicker can one get? Who holds the state who offered the deal and the judge who agreed with it and signed off on it accountable?”

Bill McKee was the one who called the cops on his daughter and her friends. Bethany McKee had gone to him to ask his help with dismembering and disposing of the corpses. Bill McKee said he went to the police when Bethany refused to tell him where she was keeping her baby daughter.

In his blog, Bill McKee said his daughter only stuck around after the murders because she feared she would be killed as well.

“Yes it is true that Bethany did not leave the scene of the crime or even call the police after she realized what had happened, but if you were wearing her shoes after she was threatened by the very people that have already committed these murders what would you have done,” he said. “If they have already proven that they are capable of murder, wouldn’t you believe them if they told you that the will kill you also? I myself would not have wanted to be her when this all happened. She obviously terrified.”

In his most recent posting, on Monday morning, Bill McKee seemed to be getting discouraged.

“Ok, I don’t even know why I’m doing this anymore,” he said. “It’s almost as if I’m writing a journal now, No one is even commenting. I thought by putting this blog out to the world it would bring me some advise and help. But it hasn’t.”

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