Final Hickory Street Nightmare Killer Carted Off to Prison

Adam Landerman and Josh Miner met each other just a couple days before they strangled two men to death for $120. On Monday, Landerman joined Miner at the Downstate prison where they may spend the rest of their lives together.

Landerman, 22, was sentenced to life behind bars last week and was shipped down to Menard Correctional Center Monday. Miner, 27, arrived at Menard to start serving his own life sentence in November.

Landerman and Miner, along with Miner’s occasional “bust-down” girlfriend, Alisa Massaro, 21, and Shorewood teen mom Bethany McKee, now also 21, all were charged with the grisly Nightmare on Hickory Street murders in January 2013.

The four had been hanging around the Hickory Street house Massaro shared with her father, Phil Massaro, but ran out of cigarettes, booze and drugs, and lacked the money to buy more. McKee suggested inviting over a young man from Joliet with whom she was in a sexual relationship. The man, 22-year-old Terrance Rankins, sold drugs and “kept a lot of money on him,” police said McKee later told them. By a “lot of money,” she meant about $100.

McKee and Massaro lured Rankins to the house so they could rob him He surprised the conspirators by showing up with his lifelong friend, Eric Glover, also 22, instead of coming alone.

Not long after the two men arrived, Miner gave a signal and attacked Rankins. Landerman took on Glover. Miner and Landerman ended up strangling them to death.

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.

Read all the stories and watch every video in the series, Josh Miner: The Nightmare Revealed:

• The Nightmare Revealed: Hickory Street Strangler Josh Miner Tells All
• Part I: Josh Miner Sawed Tongue in Half, Wanted to Transform Into Vampire Clown ‘Freak’
• Part II: Josh Miner Says He Was ‘Too Slow-Witted’ To Be Charles Manson Murder Mastermind
• Part III: Nightmare on Hickory Street Gals Got ‘Bogus’ Deal, Says Josh Miner, Even the Woman Doing Just 5 Years
• Part IV: Cop’s Kid Made Up Sex On Bodies Story To Trick Detectives Into Thinking He’s Crazy: Miner
• Part V: Hickory Street Killings Were Nothing But A Fight Gone Too Far: Miner
• Part VI: No Future: Josh Miner Says He’s ‘Not Living ... Just Existing’

Landerman, the son of Joliet police Sgt. Julie Larson, took part in abusing the bodies as well. When questioned by detectives, “Miner described Landerman’s actions as surfing on the bodies,” and told how “they released a gasp of air, and possibly feces as well, as he stated it smelled,” according to a report.

Landerman reportedly told police he helped Miner “hog tie” one of the dead men with dirty laundry — just in case the corpse came back to life — then “heard a gasp or ‘zombie noise’ from the victim and then didn’t hear anything else from the victim. He realized then the man had been killed.”

During his more than two and a half years in the Will County jail, Landerman complained about the size of the towels. In court papers, Landerman also took issue with the jail menu and the lack of “barber and beautician services,” among other things.

Department of Corrections spokeswoman Nicole Wilson did not immediately respond when asked how large the towels are in prison.

Along with Miner and Landerman, McKee is also serving a life sentence. Massaro is locked up with her in the same prison, Logan Correctional Center, but will get out in less than two years. Massaro wriggled her way out of the murder case last year by copping a plea to reduced charges of robbery and concealing homicides.

Massaro agreed to testify against her partners-in-crime but only took the stand at McKee’s trial.