Judge in Nightmare on Hickory Street Murder Case Wants to Get Things Moving

The judge in the Nightmare on Hickory Street double murder case told a defense attorney he wants to get things going.

"I'll work with you but I do want to see the matter move forward," Judge Gerald Kinney told defense attorney Chuck Bretz during a Friday morning hearing in Will County court.

Bretz had asked the judge for a court date in January but Kinney told him to come back in December.

Bretz's client, Bethany McKee, 19, along with her three co-defendants—Adam Landerman, 20, Alisa Massaro, 19, and Joshua Miner, 25, all were charged with the January murders of Terrance Rankins and Eric Glover, both 22.

Massaro and McKee allegedly lured Rankins and Glover to Massaro’s home on Hickory Street, where Miner and Landerman strangled the two men to death, according to police reports obtained exclusively by Patch. After the killings, Massaro and Miner had sex atop the dead men’s bodies, the reports said.

The four then 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.

Assistant State's Attorney John Connor told Judge Kinney during the hearing that the results of DNA testing have been turned over to defense lawyers and that he will check if fingerprint testing has been completed.

"At this point," Connor said, "the bulk of the forensic testing is done."

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