Crime & Safety

Just Happy to be Here: Hickory St. Nightmare Corpse-Sex Woman All Smiles in Prison Mug

Alisa Massaro arrived at Downstate Logan Correctional Center the same day she got out of the Will County jail.

The woman who flipped on three friends charged along with her in the Nightmare on Hickory Street murders arrived at a Downstate prison Friday and looked pleased to be in her new home.

Alisa Massaro, 20, was processed into the reception facility at Logan Correctional Center outside Lincoln. She had been transported there from the Will County jail a day after pleading guilty to robbery and concealing homicides.

In exchanged for her plea—and the promise of her future testimony against her three friends—prosecutors dropped murder charges and sentenced her to five years in prison, of which she will have to serve less than four.

Massaro and those three friends—Joshua Miner, 25, Adam Landerman, 20, and Bethany McKee, 19—were arrested in January 2013 and charged with the 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.

Landerman, McKee and Miner will stand trial separately. Prosecutors said they will go after Miner before the other two.

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