Final Nightmare on Hickory Street Murder Trial Starts Next Week

When the cops caught Adam Landerman in a Joliet house with two dead bodies, he was hiding in a cistern on his hands and knees with his face to the wall, according to police reports obtained exclusively by Patch.

Officers ordered Landerman to come out with his hands up, but he refused, a report said. He stayed in the cistern with “his hands under his torso and turned and smiled at me,” an officer wrote.

Landerman, now 21, was taken from the house on Hickory Street to the police station for questioning, then went to the Will County jail. Two and a half years later, he’s still locked up there. But on Monday, he will finally stand trial for the murders of 22-year-olds Terrance Rankins and Eric Glover.

In January 2013, Rankins and Glover went to the Hickory Street Nightmare house of 21-year-old Alisa Massaro. They brought along liquor and drugs, according to statements made in police interviews, and apparently planned on hanging out with Massaro and her friend Bethany McKee, 20.

But when Rankins and Glover got to the house, Landerman and another man, Joshua Miner, 26, were there as well. Prosecutors said Miner, Landerman, Massaro and McKee hatched a plot to rob Rankins and Glover. During the attack, Landerman and Miner allegedly strangled the two men to death.

In an exclusive interview with Patch, Miner claimed he killed Rankins and Landerman choked the life out of Glover after the two men refused to leave Massaro’s home and a fight broke out. Miner said he ordered them to go because he felt slighted.

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After Glover and Rankins were killed, Miner and Massaro had sex atop the dead men’s bodies, the couple confirmed when questioned by police. But even though Miner confessed to having sex on the corpses with his “bust-down” girlfriend Massaro, he told Patch he only said it to get the detectives to leave him alone. The whole sex on the bodies story was concocted by Landerman, Miner said, who was hoping to convince the cops he was crazy.

When the detectives were grilling Miner, he also reportedly told of Landerman jumping on the backs of the dead men.

“Miner described Landerman’s actions as surfing on the bodies” and recalled the way “they released a gasp of air, and possibly feces as well, as he stated it smelled,” according to a report.

Landerman, the son of Joliet police Sgt. Julie Larson, is the last of the four charged with killing Rankins and Glover to remain in the county jail. McKee and Miner were already found guilty by Judge Gerald Kinney and sentenced to life in prison.

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.

If convicted of killing both Rankins and Glover, Landerman faces an automatic life sentence.