With Eric Glover's and Terrance Rankins' lifeless bodies lying in the Hickory Street house where they'd been strangled, Alisa Massaro, Bethany McKee, Adam Landerman and Joshua Miner concocted a plan to dismember them and get rid of the bodies, according to police reports obtained by Patch.
First, they ditched the car Glover and Rankins drove to the house, leaving it in an apartment parking lot on Madison Street near Presence St. Joseph Medical Center, police said.
They then headed to Walgreens for soda and beef jerky, according to the police.
The four accused killers considered putting the bodies in the vehicle and torching it, police said, but figured that would draw too much attention.
Massaro reportedly told detectives she and her friends discussed chopping up Rankins and Glover and “dumping them in water or another location.”
Landerman explained to police the “idea was to place them all into separate garbage bags and to find a town far from their location and figure out what day garbage day was and drive down the street” disposing of the remains, a report stated.
McKee reportedly revealed “they were going to cut up the bodies and that they were going to cut the fingers, hands, and the arms off of each of them.”
She also told officers that Miner “wanted to keep the teeth of both deceased as trophies from killing them after they had cut up the bodies,” a report said.
Landerman reportedly also told police how McKee drove him to the Glenwood Avenue home of his grandmother, where he also lived, on the morning of Jan. 10. He took a nap about 9:30 a.m., woke around 1 in the afternoon and gathered “supplies,” including rubber gloves, bleach, a saw and a blow torch, a report said. He was unable to procure garbage bags, police said.
“He told (Miner) to get the garbage bags himself,” a report said, then waited for McKee, who picked him up and brought him back to the death house.
They never got to carry out their plan to cut up the bodies, according to investigators, because McKee's father, William McKee, phoned police after his daughter asked him for help getting rid of the bodies.
This concludes Patch's report: Nightmare on Hickory Street: An Inside View.
What Should You Read Next?
- Nightmare on Hickory Street Part 1: Sex on the Bodies
- Part 2: Rape to Robbery: Accused Killers Changed Their Story
- Past Patch coverage of the Joliet Double Murder, including 'I Dated a Serial Killer!' Alleged Murderer's Ex Posts on Facebook
I'm very disappointed that this information became all public before the family of the two men have been able to get a grip around what happen to their children and they have to read it in the newspaper "REALLY"... That makes me just as sick as these stories do !
that family has always been whacked
I also take offense to remarks you made which insinuate that the families of the killers are to blame. If the police have not come out and made statements verifying this, then do not make assumptions. The kids who committed this crime were clearly sick, and mental illness can happen to a child whether they have a wonderful home life or a horrible one. If McKee's father is, in fact, the one who called the police, it sounds like the community should be thanking him instead of spreading rumors about him. Reporting a murder committed by his own daughter must have been the worst moment in that man's life, and he still did the right thing.
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It's similar to landermans mom. Many people complained that she was the only parent named at the beginning of this. If they had not made that public knowledge, there would've been accusations of favoritism in the PD.