Crime & Safety

Woman Cops Said Had Sex on Murder Victims' Bodies to Get Out of Prison in Less Than 4 Years

Alisa Massaro will testify against her three pals if they stand trial for the Nightmare on Hickory Street murders.

After the cops found two dead men in her Hickory Street home, Alisa Massaro told of having sex on top of the corpses with her boyfriend, police said.

Massaro, 20, was charged with killing the two men she reportedly had sex on top of but slipped the murder rap Thursday by pleading guilty to robbery and concealing homicides.

Massaro will get out of prison in less than four years in exchange for testifying against three pals still charged with the double murders—including the man she supposedly had sex with atop the dead bodies, 25-year-old Joshua Miner.

"In light of all the circumstances and facts in the case, and Ms. Massaro's individual involvement, I feel like it was an excellent disposition for her," said her attorney, George Lenard.

Massaro was sentenced to 10 years in prison. But with the time she has already served in the Will County jail and sentencing guidelines that will allow her to be released after doing half her time, Massaro should be out in less than three years and eight months.

In accepting Massaro's plea, Judge Gerald Kinney noted it "requires her to provide testimony."

"If the others proceed to trial and the state chooses to call her as a witness, she will testify truthfully," Lenard said.

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Those "others" are Miner, Adam Landerman, 20, and Bethany McKee, 19. They still face murder charges in connection with the January 2010 strangulation deaths of Terrance Rankins and Eric Glover, both 22.

Prosecutor Dan Walsh said the day before murders, Massaro called Rankins and Glover to "entice" them to come over to her Hickory Street house. She, McKee, Miner and Landerman planned to rob the two men, Walsh said.

After Rankins and Glover were choked to death, Massaro and her friends stole their cash and drugs, Walsh said. They also plotted to dispose of the dead bodies, Walsh said.

According to police reports obtained exclusively by Patch, Massaro, Miner, Landerman and McKee  concocted a plan to dismember the corpses of their victims and began procuring supplies, including a blowtorch, to carry out the plan. 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.

The murders came to light after McKee went to her father, Bill McKee, for help in disposing of the bodies. Instead of taking part in the gruesome plan, Bill McKee reportedly alerted the police.

Miner, Landerman and McKee are scheduled to appear in court Friday for a hearing on whether to split up their cases.

Members of Rankins' family, including his mother, Jamille Kent, were in court to witness Massaro's plea. A representative of the state's attorney's office said the family did not wish to discuss the case.

Lenard said he was unsure whether Massaro was to be transported from the county jail to prison this week or next.

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