Crime & Safety

Hickory St. Double Murder File Still Sealed Despite Order

The Nightmare on Hickory Street Double Murder case file was ordered unsealed three days ago.

By Joseph Hosey

During a Friday morning hearing at the Will County courthouse, a judge ordered the Nightmare on Hickory Street double murder case file to be re-opened to the public.

But late Monday—three days later—the file remains unavailable.

Will County Judge Gerald Kinney ordered the case file sealed in the wake of a series of stories published by Patch detailing statements made by the four accused killers—Joshua Miner, 24, Adam Landerman, 19, Bethany McKee, 18, and Alisa Massaro, 19—according to reports produced by the Joliet Police Department.

Patch exclusively obtained the police reports, which include claims that the four accused killers lured two men—Eric Glover and Terrance Rankins, both 22—to Massaro's Hickory Street home. After the young men arrived, Miner and Landerman strangled them to death, the reports said.

Miner and Massaro then had sex atop Glover and Rankins' corpses, according to the reports.

After a drug and alcohol-fueled night of partying, Landerman, Massaro, McKee and Miner hatched a plan to dismember the dead men's bodies, the reports said. Miner reportedly said he wanted to keep Glover and Rankins' teeth as trophies.

While ordering the files to be unsealed Friday, Judge Kinney allowed defense attorneys and prosecutors to request certain documents be kept private. Kinney said he will decide next month whether those documents will remain sealed.

Public Defender Frank Astrella, who represents Miner, has been pushing for a special prosecutor to be appointed to the case in hopes of sniffing out the source of the leak to Patch.

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