Childhood Pals Charged With Hickory Street Nightmare Killings Get Locked Up in Same Prison

A young woman from Shorewood sentenced to life behind bars for murdering two men she never laid a hand on was sent to the same Downstate prison as the childhood friend who snitched on her.

Bethany McKee, 20, was shipped down to Logan Correctional Center in Lincoln Friday. Her longtime friend, Alisa Massaro, also 20, was already down there.

McKee and Massaro, along with Massaro’s boyfriend, Joshua Miner, 26, and another young man, 21-year-old Adam Landerman, all were arrested in January 2013 and charged with murdering 22-year-olds Terrance Rankins and Eric Glover.

Miner strangled Rankins to death and Landerman allegedly throttled Glover, but all four were charged with the double slaying because the deaths resulted from a plot to rob the young men.

Miner confessed to coming up with the robbery scheme. He and his friends got the idea 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.

McKee and Massaro lured Rankins and Glover to Massaro’s Hickory Street nightmare house but left the room while Landerman and Miner carried out the killings, according to police reports obtained exclusively by Patch.

After the two men were dead, Miner, McKee, Massaro and Landerman used their money to buy cocaine, gasoline and cigarettes. Massaro and Miner later had sex atop the corpses of their victims.

The Hickory Street Nightmare pals then decided to dismember the dead men and began procuring supplies, including a blowtorch, to carry out the gruesome job, the reports said. Miner reportedly intended to keep the dead men’s teeth as trophies.

Miner was sentenced to life in prison Wednesday. He was driven down to Menard Correctional Center the morning after he last appeared in court.

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.

Massaro, who McKee’s father, Bill McKee, accused of being a bad influence on his daughter, made out a lot better than her longtime pal. She squirmed 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.

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