Shrink to Evaluate 1 of 4 Alleged Hickory St. Nightmare Murderers

One of the four friends charged with the grisly Nightmare on Hickory Street murders will be subjected to a psychological evaluation.

Will County Judge Gerald Kinney ordered the evaluation after the attorney for 25-year-old Joshua Miner requested it during a Monday morning hearing. Prosecutors did not object to defense attorney Mike Renzi's motion for a fitness evaluation.

Miner, clad in orange jail scrubs and with his hair braided into a ponytail, did not speak during the brief hearing.

Miner, along with Adam Landerman, 20, Alisa Massaro, 19, and Bethany McKee, also 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.

As part of Miner's evaluation, a letter the accused killer sent to Judge Kinney also will be examined. The letter has been entered into the court file under seal.

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