State Rests in Adam Landerman's Hickory St. Nightmare Murder Trial, Defense Calls No One

Testimony in the last Nightmare on Hickory Street murder trial ended with the defense calling no witnesses and defendant Adam Landerman declining to take the stand.

The brief trial concluded with Landerman’s attorneys hardly cross-examining any of the prosecution’s witnesses before deciding to call none of their own.

Closing arguments in the case against Landerman, 21, are scheduled for Monday afternoon.

Landerman was arrested along with three friends — Joshua Miner, 26, Bethany McKee, 20, and Alisa Massaro, 21 — in January 2013. All four were charged with murdering 22-year-olds Terrance Rankins and Eric Glover.

Landerman, Miner, Massaro and McKee were partying in Massaro’s Hickory Street nightmare house when they ran out of cigarettes, liquor and money, according to prosecutors. The four then allegedly hatched a plan to rob Rankins, who was an acquaintance of McKee, Massaro and Landerman.

McKee and Massaro lured Rankins to the house on Hickory. To the surprise of the four alleged conspirators, he showed with his life-long friend, 22-year-old Eric Glover.

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• 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
• Part VI: No Future: Josh Miner Says He’s ‘Not Living ... Just Existing’

Miner strangled Rankins and Landerman allegedly choked the life out of Glover. Miner and Landerman then rifled through the dead men’s pockets, stole their money and marijuana, and resumed partying with the women, according to prosecutors. The evening’s entertainment included Miner and Massaro having sex atop the corpses of Glover and Rankins.

During a police interrogation, Landerman claimed Miner actually killed both Rankins and Glover. Landerman insisted he merely choked Glover until the young man passed out.

In an exclusive prison interview with Patch, Miner claimed the real reason he killed Rankins and Landerman strangled Glover was that the two men refused to leave Massaro’s home and a fight broke out. Miner said he ordered Rankins and Glover to go because he felt slighted.

If Landerman is found guilty, he faces a mandatory life sentence. McKee and Miner have already been convicted and are serving their own life sentences.

Massaro wriggled her way out of the murder case last year 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.