Corpse Sex Gal Lies to Cops For Hours, Claims She Didn't Know Dead Men Were in Her House

By Joseph Hosey

In a video of her interrogation with police, the star witness at the Nightmare on Hickory Street murder trial lied to detectives for at least three and a half hours.

Alisa Massaro, 20, may well have gone on lying for much longer, but Will County Judge Gerald Kinney called a break in the trial Monday afternoon and put off the rest of the interrogation tape until Tuesday morning.

Massaro, 20, was carted up from Downstate Logan Correctional Center last week to testify against her lifelong friend Bethany McKee, also 20. Massaro and McKee, along with Adam Landerman, 21, and Joshua Miner, 26, all were arrested in January 2013 and charged with the strangulation deaths of Terrance Rankins and Eric Glover, both 22.

Massaro wiggled out of the murder case by copping a plea to reduced charges of robbery and concealing homicides. Massaro’s deal with prosecutors cleared the way for her to walk out of prison in less than three and a half years. She had been looking at a possible life sentence.

In exchange for letting her slide on the murder charges, prosecutors secured Massaro’s testimony against McKee, Miner and Landerman. WhileMassaro was on the witness stand last week, McKee’s attorney, Chuck Bretz, repeatedly belittled her as a dishonest opportunist more than willing to “throw (McKee) under the bus,” and at one point asked Massaro if she is now a “reformed liar.”

Bretz told Judge Kinney he wanted the interrogation tape played to impeach Massaro’s credibility.

In the video, detectives start questioning Massaro about 4:30 p.m. the day after the killings. The detectives leave her alone in an interview room on several occasions, some of which followed her asking for a lawyer.

When Massaro does talk to the detectives, she repeatedly utters, “I don’t know” in response to questions about Landerman and Miner’s identities, the names of the dead men in her house, and whether she noticed they were lying lifeless on her floor.

Later in the interview, Massaro told detectives she and Miner had sex atop the dead bodies she denied even knowing were there, according to police reports obtained exclusively by Patch.

For a time, Massaro claimed Glover and Rankins “were trying to do things to (her and McKee) we didn’t want to do.”

“They were forceful,” she said, explaining how the young men were “touchy-feely in an aggressive way.”

Massaro eventually abandoned that story and admitted it was a lie.

What actually happened, said prosecutor Tricia McKenna , was that McKee, Miner, Landerman and Massaro hatched the plot to kill Rankins and Glover because they were broke and badly wanted to buy booze and cigarettes.

Massaro and McKee lured the two young men to Massaro’s home on Hickory Street, according to police reports, and soon after they arrived, Miner and Landerman strangled them and went through their pockets looking for cash.

Once Rankins and Glover were dead, the reports said, Massaro and Miner had sex atop their bodies. Massaro, McKee, Miner and Landerman thendecided to dismember the corpses of their victims 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.

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

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