Woman Charged With Hickory St. Nightmare Killings Asked How Much Time She'd Get For Accessory to Murder: Detective

After she was captured by the cops in Kankakee, alleged Nightmare on Hickory Street killer Bethany McKee wondered what kind of time she was looking at for being an accessory to murder, a detective said.

“She told me she liked my tattoos and she told me she wanted talk to me and she wanted to tell me the truth,” said Joliet police Detective Stephen Diehl. “And she wanted to know how much time she would get for accessory to murder.”

Diehl testified Tuesday morning on the second day of McKee’s murder trial.

McKee, 20, allegedly fled the scene of the killings and eventually headed to Kankakee, where the father of her baby daughter lives.

McKee was taken into custody and brought to the Kankakee Police Department, where she was interviewed by Diehl and another Joliet detective. A video of her interrogation was to be played Tuesday afternoon.

McKee is the first of the alleged Nightmare on Hickory Street killers to go to trial. Two of her alleged accomplices, Joshua Miner, 26, and Adam Landerman, 21, both of Joliet, remain in the Will County jail awaiting their own trials. A third friend, Alisa Massaro, 20, of Joliet, squirmed out of the murder case in May by copping a plea to reduced charges of robbery and concealing homicides. Prosecutors agreed to the plea deal to secure Massaro’s future testimony against her three alleged accomplices. She is scheduled to be released from prison in less than three and a half years.

McKee, Miner, Massaro and Landerman were charged with murdering Terrance Rankins and Eric Glover, both 22. The two young men were killed after Massaro and Bethany McKee lured them to Massaro’s home on Hickory Street, according to police reports obtained exclusively by Patch. Not long after Rankins and Glover arrived, Miner and Landerman throttled the two men to death, the reports said.

Before Diehl took the stand, Joliet Police Department Evidence Technician Nicholas Amelio showed Will County Judge Gerald Kinney the various tools McKee and her cohorts were allegedly going to use to dismember the bodies of their victims. Amelio showed the judge shears, scissors, a hacksaw, knives and a blowtorch.

McKee, Miner, Landerman and Massaro hatched the plot to murder Rankins and Glover because they were broke and wanted to buy cigarettes and alcohol, a prosecutor said.

“All of this went down for $120,” said Assistant State’s Attorney Tricia McKenna, “which is pretty much what Bethany expected (Rankins) to have.”

Once Rankins and Glover were dead, the reports said, Massaro and Miner had sex atop their bodies. Miner also reportedly intended to keep the dead men’s teeth as trophies.

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