Wrongful Death Lawsuit Filed in Nightmare on Hickory St. Murder Case

The young men and women charged with the shocking Nightmare on Hickory Street murders are facing a wrongful death lawsuit brought by the mother of one of their alleged victims.

Nicole Jones, the mother of 22-year-old Eric Glover, filed the lawsuit in Will County court.

Glover and Terrance Rankins, also 22, were found dead with their heads wrapped in plastic bags in the 1121 N. Hickory St. home of Alisa Massaro in January. Massaro, 19—along with Adam Landerman, 19, Joshua Miner, 25, and Bethany McKee, 19—all were charged with murder soon after the bodies were discovered.

In the wake of the arrests, Patch obtained police reports and used them as the basis for a series of exclusive stories on the killings. Among the details revealed in the series was that Massaro and Miner allegedly had sex atop the dead men’s bodies, the four accused murderers reportedly concocted a plan to dismember the corpses of their victims and began procuring supplies for the job, including a blowtorch, and that Miner allegedly intended to keep the dead men’s teeth as trophies.

Jones' lawsuit names the four alleged killers as defendants and also Phillip and Brittany Massaro, who she said owned the Hickory Street house at the time of the murders. Phillip Massaro, Alisa Massaro's father, was in the house when Glover and Rankins were strangled by Landerman and Miner on the second floor, the police reports said, but was downstairs and apparently unaware of what was going on above him.

In establishing herself as the special administrator of Glover's estate, Jones listed five more of her son's relatives, including his father, Eric K. Glover Sr., whom she said resides at Stateville Correctional Center. The only Eric Glover incarcerated in a state prison, according to Department of Corrections records, is a 41-year-old man doing five years in Stateville for being an armed habitual criminal, driving with a revoked or suspended license, aggravated driving under the influence, and possessing or using a weapon as a felon.

The lawsuit alleges that Phillip and Brittany Massaro both knew Alisa Massaro "was a frequent user of illicit drugs and controlled substances and that many of the persons that visited her in the 1121 North Hickory premises were also users of drugs and other controlled substances, engaged in criminal conduct, and were prone to acts of violence."

Glover had gone to the Hickory Street house to "attend a social gathering or a party," the lawsuit said.

According to case's court docket, Jones' attorney, Michael Bolos, filed a petition to settle the lawsuit Tuesday. The petition had yet to be added to the court file.

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