'There's Four Mouths That Know,' Accused Killer Says, 'But We're All Involved Equally'

After taking care of his half of the double murder on Hickory Street, Joshua Miner wanted the two women who stood by while the killings were carried out to "get some dirt" on themselves, according to the police reports obtained last week by Patch.

Miner, 24, and Adam Landerman, 19, had just finished strangling Terrance Rankins and Eric Glover, both 22, in a house on Hickory Street in the early morning of Jan. 10, police said, and Miner decided it was time to make a phone call.

Miner reportedly told police he called someone named “Chicago,” and that Chicago gave him some advice about dumping the car Rankins and Glover took to the Hickory Street house.

During that phone call, Landerman heard Miner say, “It’s OK. There’s four mouths that know, but we’re all involved equally,” according to a police report.

Alisa Massaro, 18, lived in the death house on Hickory Street. She had been drinking and doing drugs with Landerman, Miner and another woman, Bethany McKee, 18, of Shorewood, when they decided to invite Rankins and Glover to come by, police said.

Massaro and McKee both said they went downstairs before the killing started, according to police reports, and did not actually see Landerman and Miner choke the life out of Glover and Rankins. But when the two women returned, the reports state, Miner wanted to make sure they were in as deep as him.

Miner told the women “that they were going to have to get some dirt on them and (they) had to kick and beat the bodies with a bottle,” Landerman told detectives, according to a police report.

Landerman said “McKee did not want to kick the bodies,” and he does not believe she did, a report said, “but she did hit the bodies in the head with an empty glass Jose Cuervo tequila bottle.”

Massaro apparently didn’t share McKee’s reluctance, the report states, as Landerman told detectives she “kicked and stomped both victims in the head and beat them in the head with the empty Jose Cuervo tequila bottle.”

Massaro, who had recently applied to Joliet Junior College, told detectives “it was discussed that each should do something to the bodies and she struck the victims in the head with a bottle and kicked the victims but would not account for what the other subjects did.”

After the men were dead, McKee told officers Landerman was “dancing around and they were talking about what to do before they checked how much money they had,” a report states. The four then went out in Glover’s car to score coke from Miner’s dealer, “Nick,” a report said. They returned and “partied in the other upstairs bedroom,” said a report that noted “she and the others were snorting and smoking the cocaine.”

This post-killing atmosphere was erratic, according to the police account of what Landerman said. Landerman told detectives “the mood in the room would change from awkward silence to laughing and joking to awkward silence again,” a report said. “He stated that everybody was up and down and that the mood in the room would change.”

What Should You Read Next?

• Nightmare on Hickory Street: An Inside View
• Nightmare on Hickory Street Part 1: Sex on the Bodies
• Part 2: Rape to Robbery: Accused Killers Changed Their Story
• Part 3: 
• Part 4: Accused Killer Wanted to Keep Dead Men's Teeth
• Past Patch coverage of the Joliet Double Murder, including 'I Dated a Serial Killer!' Alleged Murderer's Ex Posts on Facebook

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