Crime & Safety

Nightmare on Hickory Street Fingerprint Testing Nearly Done, Murder Case Moving Ahead

Prosecutors expect fingerprint reports to be completed next week.

Prosecutors in the Nightmare on Hickory Street double murder case expect to turn over the last of their evidence to defense attorneys next week.

Fingerprint testing conducted by the Illinois State Police crime lab should be completed Thursday and a report will be done some time next week, Will County Assistant State's Attorney Dan Walsh said during a Wednesday morning court hearing.

Also Wednesday, public defender Lea Norbut said a psychological evaluation ordered for one of the four alleged murderers, Joshua Miner, has yet to be taken care of. Norbut said the evaluation will be completed before the end of April.

Judge Gerald Kinney ordered the evaluation after it was requested by another of Miner's attorneys, Mike Renzi, last month.

Miner, 25, along with Adam Landerman, 20, Alisa Massaro, also 20, and Bethany McKee, 19, face murder charges in connection with the January 2013 strangulation deaths of Terrance Rankins and Eric Glover, both 22.

According to police reports obtained exclusively by Patch, Massaro and McKee lured Rankins and Glover to Massaro's house on North Hickory Street in Joliet. Not long after the two men arrived, Miner and Landerman throttled Rankins and Glover, killing them, police said.

Once Rankins and Glover were dead, Massaro and Miner had sex atop their bodies, the reports said. The four friends then concocted a plan to dismember the corpses of their victims and began procuring supplies, including a blowtorch, to carry out the plan, the reports said. Miner reportedly intended to keep the dead men’s teeth as trophies.

Landerman, Massaro, McKee and Miner never actually got around to cutting up the bodies, the reports said, and they left the corpses on the floor while they continued to party, drink and do drugs. Mike Trafton, the Joliet police chief at the time of the murders, called the killings "one of the most brutal, heinous, really upsetting things" he had experienced in his entire career.

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