Nightmare on Hickory Street Strangler Insane?

JOLIET, IL — More than four years after he strangled a man to death for his money and drugs, Nightmare on Hickory Street killer Josh Miner wants a sanity evaluation.

A motion for a sanity evaluation, a sanity order and psychological evaluation all were filed to Miner’s case Tuesday. The entire filing was marked confidential and impounded.

Miner, 28, is serving a life sentence at Downstate Menard Correctional Center for the murders of Terrance Rankins and Eric Glover in January 2013.

Miner confessed to police that he and three friends — Bethany McKee, Adam Landerman and Alisa Massaro — planned to rob Rankins and Glover and that the young men were killed as a result of the plot.

Miner and his friends hatched the scheme to rip off Rankins and Glover because they were broke and wanted to buy cigarettes and alcohol, prosecutor Tricia McKenna said during McKee’s trial.

After Glover and Rankins were killed, Miner and Massaro had sex atop the dead men’s bodies, according to police reports obtained exclusively by Patch.

In the wake of the slayings, Miner also spoke of flaying Glover and wearing his face like a mask, McKee told detectives during an interrogation at the Kankakee Police Department.

“He was going to take a picture later on with his face pulled off like Leatherface,” McKee said, telling how Miner was inspired by the horror film Texas Chainsaw Massacre, in which Leatherface goes on a murderous rampage and wears a dead man’s face like a mask.

“I think it’s because of the dreads” Glover wore, McKee explained to Joliet police detectives. She said Miner wanted to “scalp his head and wear it like a hat.”

McKee, 22, was also found guilty of the double murder and sentenced to life in prison, even though she had no hand in physically killing either of the two men. Massaro, 23, wriggled her way out of the murder case by copping a plea to reduced charges of robbery and concealing homicides. She was sentenced to five years in prison but is scheduled to be released in February.

Both McKee and Massaro are locked up in Logan Correctional Center.

Massaro got the plea in exchange for agreeing to testify against her three friends. She took the stand at McKee’s trial but prosecutors didn’t even bother to call her for Miner’s.

Landerman, 23, the son of Joliet police Sgt. Julie Larson, was also found guilty of murdering Rankins and Glover and sentenced to life in prison. He told the judge he felt it was “wrong” for him to be locked up until he dies.

Landerman is incarcerated at Menard along with Miner.

Patch conducted an exclusive interview with Miner behind the walls of maximum security Menard in 2015. Miner revealed, among other things, that he believes both McKee and Massaro got a “bogus” deals in court, that he was “too slow-witted” to have masterminded the murders, and that he sawed his own tongue down the middle in an attempt to become a vampire-clown-snake.