Words From Man Charged With Hickory St. Nightmare Murder Can Come Back to Haunt Him

Joshua Miner said an awful lot to the cops after they found him in a Hickory Street house with two dead men last year, according to police reports obtained exclusively by Patch, and a judge ruled that those words can be used by prosecutors trying to put the alleged killer in prison for the rest of his life.

Miner's attorneys had tried to bar his statements by claiming the cops continued questioning him after he asked for a lawyer. But Will County Judge Gerald Kinney ruled on Thursday that Miner agreed to talk to detectives.

Miner, 25, said he was "not sure" if he wanted a lawyer, Judge Kinney said, and asked detectives if he "could get a (public defender) or something."

Miner was also "concerned about a misunderstanding about what he was willing to talk about," Kinney said.

In a court filing, prosecutors said those concerns included people suspecting he was a racist. The two men found strangled to death in the Hickory Street house—Terrance Rankins and Eric Glover, both 22—were black. Miner and three others charged with murder after police made the grisly discovery in January 2013 are white.

One of those three friends, 20-year-old Alisa Massaro, has since slithered out of the murder case by pleading guilty to robbery and concealing homicides. She agreed to testify against her three pals and in exchange will serve less than four years in prison.

Massaro scored the plea deal even though Rankins and Glover were found dead in her home and she told detectives how she had sex with Miner atop the slain men's corpses.

The attorney for another young woman charged with the double murder, 19-year-old Bethany McKee of Shorewood, said he wants to take her case to trial next month. Trial dates have yet to be set for Miner or the other alleged killer, 20-year-old Adam Landerman.

The police reports obtained by Patch said Massaro and McKee lured Rankins and Glover to the Hickory Street horror house. There, Landerman and Miner reportedly strangled the two men to death and pawed through their clothes looking for drugs and money.

After the killings, Massaro and Miner had sex atop the dead men’s bodies, the reports said. The four then concocted a plan to dismember the corpses of their victims and began procuring supplies, including a blowtorch, to carry out the plan, the reports said. Miner reportedly intended to keep the dead men’s teeth as trophies.

McKee was at Massaro's home with her baby daughter but left the room before the killing started, the reports said. McKee later took off from the house and met with her father, Bill McKee, in hopes he would help get rid of the bodies, police said. Bill McKee instead called the cops.

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