Last of Alleged Nightmare on Hickory St. Killers to Stand Trial June 8

The last of the alleged Nightmare on Hickory Street killers wants to stand trial June 8.

Adam Landerman, the 21-year-old son of Joliet police Sgt. Julie Larson, chose to go before a jury when he is tried for the murders of Terrance Rankins and Eric Glover.

Two killers arrested along with Landerman—Joshua Miner, 26, and Bethany McKee, 20—put their fates solely in the hands of now retired Judge Gerald Kinney. Kinney found both Miner and McKee guilty and sent them to prison for the rest of their lives.

Another woman charged with killing Rankins and Glover, 20-year-old Alisa Massaro, 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 got the plea deal in exchange for agreeing to testify against her three friends. She took the stand at McKee’s trial but prosecutors didn’t even bother calling her for Miner’s.

Landerman and Miner killed Rankins and Glover after Massaro and McKee lured them to the Hickory Street nightmare house, according to police reports obtained exclusively by Patch. Miner and his friends came up with a plan to rob Rankins and Glover, both 22, because they were broke and wanted to buy cigarettes and alcohol, prosecutor Tricia McKenna said during McKee’s trial.

After Glover and Rankins were killed, Miner and Massaro had sex atop the dead men’s bodies, the police reports said. Landerman also reportedly abused the corpses.

When questioned by detectives after the killings, “Miner described Landerman’s actions as surfing on the bodies,” and told how “they released a gasp of air, and possibly feces as well, as he stated it smelled,” according to a report.

Landerman reportedly told police he helped Miner “hog tie” one of the dead men with dirty laundry in case he came to, then “heard a gasp or ‘zombie noise’ from the victim and then didn’t hear anything else from the victim. He realized then the man had been killed.”

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