Joliet Strangulation Murders: 4 Young Adults Arrested In Horrific Double Murder

[sweet-a-kins]

 

Four suspects were arrested Friday in a brutal double murder in suburban Chicago.

Alisa Massaro, 18; Bethany McKee, 18; Adam Landerman, 19 and Joshua Miner, 24, all of Joliet, Ill., have been arrested in the robbery and strangulation deaths of two 22-year-old males, Eric Glover and Terrence Rankins, Patch reports. Landerman is the son of a Joliet police sergeant.

According to police, the four youths intended to rob Glover and Rankins when they lured him to a home in the 1100 block of North Hickory Street in Joliet, strangled them to death and proceeded to "party" and play video games together on Thursday. According to Patch, there is evidence that the four suspects intended to dismember their victims.

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Clockwise from top left: Alisa Massaro, Joshua Miner, Bethany McKee and Adam Landerman. The four Joliet, Ill. young adults have each face six charges of first-degree murder in the deaths of Eric Glover and Terrence O. Rankins.

According to the Chicago Tribune, police responded around 4 p.m. Thursday at the home, where they discovered the bodies of Glover and Rankins. The four suspects were ordered held in lieu of $10 million bail in connection with the brutal crime, NBC Chicago reports.

Joliet Police Chief Mike Trafton described the crime scene as "one of the most brutal, heinous and upsetting things I've ever seen in my 27 years of law enforcement," according to the Sun-Times.

The murders have devastated the families of the victims, who last saw their loved ones Wednesday evening.

"It's demonic. This is evil," Jamille Kent, Rankins' mother, told ABC Chicago. "He is 22 years old. He didn't get to live his life because of sick people."

Miner is the only one of the four suspects with a criminal background, including a 2010 arrest for residential burglary. The suspects and their victims were reportedly "friends," police told Patch.

[sweet-a-kins]

 What in the HELL would make "normal" people just SNAP like that on "friends" then continue to play video games while plotting on dismembering their bodies???

[CrazyLife1996]

There are no words for people like this. Disgusting

[MeAndTommyLee]

All of them look so pleasant.  At there ages they should be either attending college or working.  Busy hands and minds don't have time to rob and murder innocent people.  Just want to slap each one. Ugh!

[stormcris]

Looking at their mug shots in the four square reminds me of when four other teens killed another young man some years ago. 

One was the son of a police sergeant ...I wonder if that is the one that left before the police showed up.

[FromAtoZ]

Another crime where I will never understand the sick minds of those who committed the crime.

How incredibly sad for the families. 

[Veni.Vidi.Vici.]

It's hard to comprehend the depravity of our youth seemingly without a conscience.

[Radarma]

 

Quoting Veni.Vidi.Vici.:

It's hard to comprehend the depravity of our youth seemingly without a conscience.

 I second that!

And to the pp above, these are NOT normal people.

This is heartbreaking and terrifying.

[survivorinohio]

Quoting Veni.Vidi.Vici.:

It's hard to comprehend the depravity of our youth seemingly without a conscience.

[sweet-a-kins]

 Normal was in quotes as in so called normal

 

Quoting Radarma:

 

Quoting Veni.Vidi.Vici.:

It's hard to comprehend the depravity of our youth seemingly without a conscience.

 I second that!

And to the pp above, these are NOT normal people.

This is heartbreaking and terrifying.

 

[valhallaarwen]

Quoting sweet-a-kins:

 What in the HELL would make "normal" people just SNAP like that on "friends" then continue to play video games while plotting on dismembering their bodies???

They are not normal. They have no home training and they think they can get away with stuff because one of them is the child of the police sergeant.  I hope they fry.  I am sick to death of folks who I know are going to say, they were on drugs, drinking, mental, don't care.  They killed two folks for nothing.  This is why I believe in the death penalty.