No Future: Josh Miner Says He's 'Not Living ... Just Existing'

The future is bleak for Hickory Street Strangler Josh Miner.

“There’s really no future, really,” Miner said in an exclusive interview with Patch at maximum security Menard Correctional Center, where he is doing life for killing 22-year-olds Terrance Rankins and Eric Glover in January 2013.

“It’s just, I’m just existing,” said Miner, 26. “I’m not living, I’m just existing, and it’s just bulls--- on top of bulls---.

This is the sixth in a series of videos made of Miner at Menard, and they at times have been shocking and disturbing. 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.

Despite the dim outlook for the rest of his life, things have actually been looking up for Miner lately. He told how he had been having a hard time coming to grips with his situation but has since settled in somewhat.

“My cellie, he’s pretty cool,” Miner said. “He lets me watch his TV, so I been kind of calm. But before him, I didn’t have nothing for like four months, and I was just sitting up there freaking out, shaking, and just tweaking out about s---, remembering stuff, playing my past and stuff.”

While he sees nothing good in his future, Miner at one time considered pursuing a career as a massage therapist.

“I always rubbed my mom’s feet, I rubbed her back and everything,” Miner said.

“When I was at school, I rubbed a bunch of females’ backs and stuff like that, and they loved it,” he said. “And I always had like soft-rough hands, and I knew pressure points and everything.”

Miner said he even “started reading up” on the art of massage therapy, “taking studies, classes and everything.”

Miner is appealing his conviction and life sentence, but is not exactly optimistic when it comes to his prospects for prevailing.

“I’m hoping that the appeal comes through but I, like, hope for the best, expect the worst,” he said. “But I’m expecting the worst.”

Make sure to read and watch:

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

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