Shorewood Woman Charged With Hickory St. Nightmare Murders Now Looking At August Trial

A Shorewood woman charged with the Nightmare on Hickory Street murders may stand trial in August.

Chuck Bretz, the attorney for 20-year-old Bethany McKee, was given until Wednesday to return to court and schedule a date for her murder trial.

During a hearing Monday, prosecutor John Connor said that date will be in August.

McKee's trial was supposed to start Monday. That date was set by Will County Judge Gerald Kinney after Bretz declared last month that he was ready to go. But a few weeks later Bretz changed his mind and said he was not prepared after all.

During Monday's hearing, Bretz said he wants McKee tried by Judge Kinney and not a jury. Bretz also presented the judge with a motion to either dismiss the case against McKee or to impose sanctions.

The secret motion was filed under seal and Bretz declined to argue it during Monday's hearing. He asked Kinney to rule on the points in his motion during the trial.

McKee's two co-defendants, Joshua Miner, 26,  and Adam Landermn, 21, both of Joliet, also appeared in court Monday. Landerman and Miner do not yet have trial dates.

Another woman who had been charged with the killings, 20-year-old Alisa Massaro of Joliet, pled guilty to robbery and concealing a homicide. Massaro was sent off to prison for three and a half years in exchange for her future testimony against McKee, Miner and Landerman.

Landerman, Massaro, Mckee and Miner all were arrested in January 2013 and charged with murdering Terrance Rankins and Eric Glover, both 22.

Massaro and McKee lured Rankins and Glover to Massaro’s home on Hickory Street, where Miner and Landerman throttled the two men to death, according to police reports obtained exclusively by Patch.

After the killings, Massaro and Miner had sex atop the dead men’s bodies, the reports said. The four 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.

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 get rid of the bodies, police said. Bill McKee instead called the cops.

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