Living the Life: Nightmare on Hickory St. Killer Josh Miner Sent to Die in Prison the Day After His Sentencing

The morning after he was sentenced to life in prison, Nightmare on Hickory Street killer Joshua Miner was shipped 300 miles Downstate to spend the rest of his days in Menard Correction Center.

The speed of Miner’s departure rivaled that of notorious wife-murderer Drew Peterson, who was also whisked away from the Will County jail within hours of his case ending.

And Miner got to skip the trip to the Northern Reception and Classification Center at Stateville, instead heading straight down to Menard, where Peterson and Christopher Vaughn, who killed his wife and three children in preparation for a planned excursion to the Yukon, also are incarcerated.

Miner was sentenced to life in prison Wednesday. He was found guilty of murdering 22-year-olds Terrance Rankins and Eric Glover in January 2013.

Miner confessed to police that he and three friends—Bethany McKee, 20, Adam Landerman, 21, and Alisa Massaro, 20—planned to rob Rankins and Glover and that the young men were killed as a result of the plot.

Miner and his friends hatched the scheme to rip off Rankins and Glover 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, according to police reports obtained exclusively by Patch.

In the wake of the slayings, Miner also spoke of flaying Glover and wearing his face like a mask, McKee told detectives during an interrogation at the Kankakee Police Department.

“He was going to take a picture later on with his face pulled off like Leatherface,” McKee said, telling how Miner was inspired by the horror film Texas Chainsaw Massacre, in which Leatherface goes on a murderous rampage and wears a dead man’s face like a mask.

“I think it’s because of the dreads” Glover wore, McKee explained to Joliet police detectives. She said Miner wanted to “scalp his head and wear it like a hat.”

McKee was also found guilty of the double murder and sentenced to life in prison. She was transported out of the jail Friday and will be taken to either Decatur or Logan Correctional Center.

Massaro is already down in Logan but won’t be there for too long. She wriggled her way 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 in exchange for agreeing to testify against her three friends. She took the stand at McKee’s trial but prosecutors didn’t even bother to call her for Miner’s.

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.

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