Wrongful Death Suit No. 2 in Hickory Street Nightmare Double Murder Case

The mother of the second victim in the Nightmare on Hickory Street double murder filed a wrongful death lawsuit.

Jamille Kent, the mother of Terrance Rankins, filed the lawsuit against Phillip Massaro in Will County court Wednesday.

Massaro owned the home on Joliet's North Hickory Street where Rankins, 22, and Eric Glover, also 22, were found strangled to death in January.

Glover's mother, Nicole Jones, filed a wrongful death lawsuit of her own in September. Jones settled with Massaro last month for $150,000, which will be paid through his homeowner's insurance.

Jones also sued Massaro's daughter, Alisa Massaro, 19, and three of her friends—Adam Landerman, 19, Joshua Miner, 25, and Bethany McKee, 19. The four were charged with murder in connection with the deaths of Rankins and Glover.

The civil action against Alisa Massaro, Landerman, Miner and McKee remains pending, as does the murder case the four face.

According to police reports obtained exclusively by Patch, Alisa Massaro and McKee lured Rankins and Glover to Massaro’s home on Hickory Street, where Miner and Landerman strangled the two men to death. 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, the reports said. Miner reportedly intended to keep the dead men’s teeth as trophies.

Joliet attorney Michael Bolos represents both Jones and Rankins. He anticipated amending the lawsuit to include Alisa Massaro, McKee, Landerman and Miner.

"I almost certainly will," Bolos said. "I want to deal with the homeowner first and hopefully get that part of the case resolved."

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