GUILTY IL - Eric Glover & Terrence Rankins, both 22, murdered, Joliet, 10 Jan 2013

[OkieGranny]

http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2014/08/12/mother-of-victim-in-joliet-double-murder-speaks-out/

Jones spoke outside the courthouse where the trial of Bethany McKee entered its sixth day. McKee, along with three others, is accused of planning a robbery that lead to the strangulation murders of Jones’ son and his friend Terrance Rankins.

“Because she knew all along what was going to happen. For her to sit up there and say, ‘Oh, I don’t know, it was just a joke.’ No, it wasn’t. She knew it was going to happen,” said Jones.

 

[OkieGranny]

http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/...r-could-go-on-trial-sept-22.html#.U-0RNSgqWAA

Will County Judge Gerald Kinney scheduled Joshua Miner’s murder trial for Sept. 22 during a court appearance Thursday for Miner, 26, and Adam Landerman, 21...

McKee’s six-day bench trial ended Tuesday, and Kinney said he will announce his verdict in that case Aug. 29. Massaro pleaded guilty in May to robbery and concealing a homicide in exchange for a 10-year prison term; she was a key prosecution witness against McKee.

But evidence in McKee’s trial revealed Miner as the alleged mastermind behind the deaths of the two men, who were lured to Massaro’s home under the pretense they would be partying with her and McKee.

 

[micki68]

Bethany McKee found guilty
http://abc7chicago.com/news/bethany-mckee-found-guilty-in-joliet-double-murder/286346/

 

[OkieGranny]

http://www.updatednews.ca/2014/08/29/illinois-woman-guilty-of-murder-in-robbery-plot-with-friends/

McKee was found guilty of two counts of first degree murder for the intent to cause great bodily harm to Glover and Rankins, two counts of first degree murder for her association with the victims being strangled, and two counts of first degree murder while committing a forcible felony for robbing the two men.

Judge Kinney scheduled sentencing for Oct. 16. McKee could get a life sentence.

 

[OkieGranny]

http://my.chicagotribune.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-81443165/

A Joliet man accused of killing two men and saying he wanted to scalp them so he could wear one of their faces is scheduled to go to trial Monday on murder charges.

Joshua Miner, 26, is charged with the strangulation of Joliet residents Eric Glover and Terrance Rankins, both 22. Joliet police found the bodies in a Hickory Street apartment in January 2013...

Will County State's Attorney James Glasgow will be prosecuting Miner's case. It will be his first courtroom trial since the 2012 trial for Drew Peterson, the former Bolingbrook police sergeant found guilty in the drowning of his third wife, Kathleen Savio.

 

[seattlechiquita]

thanks OKG for always staying on top of things. You are one of my heroes!

 

[OkieGranny]

http://chicagoist.com/2014/09/22/second_defendant_in_joliet_double_m.php

Joshua Miner, one of four people charged in the grisly murders of Terrance Rankins and Eric Glover in Joliet last year, has requested a bench trial, putting his fate in the hands of Will County Judge Gerald Kinney instead of a jury.

Miner’s attorney, Michael Renzi, said his client had been favoring a bench trial since last week. The trial is expected to begin Tuesday with opening statements from the prosecution and defense. Because Miner waived his right to a jury, the trial could be concluded by next week.

 

[OkieGranny]

http://my.chicagotribune.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-81478427/

Videotape played Wednesday showed Miner telling police that Glover and Rankins were attacked after Rankins tried to rape McKee. Prosecutors have said the four agreed to use that as a cover story prior to their arrests.

Miner told police he began punching Rankins after he allegedly pulled off McKee’s pants and McKee told him to stop. He told police he was upset that Massaro was upset about what was happening and that he thought it was “gross” that Rankins, who was black, was trying to have sex with McKee, who is white. “I just snapped and I went at him,” Miner told detectives.

When Glover tried to intervene and kicked Miner in the head, Miner told detectives that was when he “went completely out of whack.” He told detectives he strangled Rankins and Landerman strangled Glover.

 

[zoey]

http://my.chicagotribune.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-81478427/

Have to come up with something I guess~~ gag

 

[PastTense]

"A Will County judge will announce a verdict next week for a man accused in a grisly 2013 Joliet double murder.

Closing arguments were given Tuesday morning in the first-degree murder trial 26-year-old Joshua Miner of Joliet. He's charged with strangling Eric Glover and Terrance Rankins, both age 22. Prosecutors claim Miner conspired with three friends to rob Rankins and Glover.

Miner has been portrayed as the ringleader in the plot. His defense attorney has said prosecutors won't be able to prove that Miner led the attack.

The judge will give deliver the verdict Oct. 8."
http://www.ksdk.com/story/news/loca...r-verdict-joliet-double-murder-case/16496147/

 

[OkieGranny]

http://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/Verdict-to-be-announced-in-Joliet-double-slaying-5808737.php

Judge Gerald Kinney convicted 26-year-old Joshua Miner on Wednesday after a bench trial late last month. Miner is the second person convicted in the strangling deaths of Eric Glover and Terrance Rankins, both 22.

 

[sloane7777]

Please just put them down.

I have to say I agree they dont ever need to be loose , and a second chance because they are young? NO

 

[OkieGranny]

http://www.theherald-news.com/2014/11/04/mckee-sentenced-to-life-in-hickory-street-murders/afidjj6/

The life sentence Bethany McKee received Tuesday for the murders of Eric Glover and Terrance Rankins was mandated...

Kinney said he would've imposed a "significant" sentence if he was not legally bound to give McKee natural life, which he did "with some level of reluctance."

"I must follow the state's mandate... which I feel is overreaching," Kinney said. "We have someone aiding and abetting who must face the same penalty (as the physical killer)."

 

[OkieGranny]

http://www.daily-journal.com/news/l...cle_8ff2afc2-b065-545b-8dd8-6268891ea1ba.html

A judge has sentenced a 26-year-old Joliet man to life in prison in a grisly 2013 double murder... Judge Gerald Kinney imposed the sentence Wednesday on Joshua Miner in Joliet...

Last week, 20-year-old Bethany McKee also was sentenced to life in prison. Another suspect, 21-year-old Adam Landerman, is awaiting trial, while 20-year-old Alissa Massaro pleaded guilty to robbery and concealment of a homicidal death in exchange for a 10-year prison term.

 

[OkieGranny]

http://www.mysuburbanlife.com/2015/...-in-hickory-street-murders-in-joliet/ai9ixxm/

A trial date has been set for the remaining suspect in the 2013 Hickory Street slayings.

Adam M. Landerman, 21, sported a crew cut and wore a dark blue jail jumpsuit when he appeared before Judge Amy Bertani-Tomczak. Prosecutors and defense attorneys told the judge they had agreed to a June 8 trial date.

 

[JSinUK]

The trial of the last of the four teens involved - Adam Landerman - has just started.....

http://abc7chicago.com/news/double-murder-trial-starts-for-son-of-joliet-cop/776422/

Aspects of this case have always sickened me. Not only were the victims lured to their deaths for their money by two girls so young posing as their friends, but one of the girls and one of the guys allegedly then thought it funny to have sex on or beside their dead bodies. And all four of them then spent the money on drink and drugs and just partied, whilst their victims' bodies still lay there.

It was only because one of them contacted her father to ask for assistance in disposing of the bodies - and the fact that instead of doing this he did the right thing and went to the authorities - that resulted in them being caught so quickly with the bodies still being on the scene.

Never been happy with the plea bargain of Massaro. She was the one with the necrophiliac fantasy and who allegedly thought the suggestion of sex on top of the bodies was funny. This displays a callous lack of regard for the moral enormity of what they'd just done in taking two men's lives. If a plea bargain were necessary, I'd have preferred it to have been with Bethany Mckee, who at least recognised how twisted this was, comes across as less coldly calculating, and seems to have been the more genuinely remorseful. And was much less involved in any post mortem disrespect of the bodies.

 

[JSinUK]

The fourth defendent - Adam Landerman - in these brutal murders has just been found guilty by a unanimous jury verdict.....

http://www.theherald-news.com/2015/...street-murder-trial-in-joliet/a14volz/?page=1

 

[JSinUK]

Now that the trials of all four defendents have concluded with "guilty" verdicts, I just thought I might share this with you. It is a blog hosted by Bethany McKee's family which tries to argue the case for her innocence insofar as a murder charge is concerned.....

http://wsmmckee.blogspot.co.uk/

Certainly, it was the two male defendents in the case who actually carried out the physical strangulation of the victims. And Mckee seems to have been much less involved in the post mortem desecration of the bodies than the other female.

A case can be made - not saying that I am convinced by it - that McKee did not know the men were going to be killed until after it happened. Once it had happened, of course, her own decisions were very poor, participating in the use of the victim's money to buy drink and drugs and even to put fuel in her own car. Sickest of all perhaps is that one of the men was a father with child's toys in his car, which McKee then took for her own child. And when she did finally speak to others about what had happened, it was not a tearful confession and a plea for help in getting her away from the people directly responsible, or desire to see justice done when she felt safe - which is how an innocent person would have behaved. Her father chose to cryptically view it as all those things, but in actuality she contacted him to ask for help in the disposal of the bodies.

Clearly, her bad choices after the crime suggest some high degree of culpability. And it is behaviour serious enough to warrant some kind of charges and serious jail time. But whatever bad choices she made after the murders, was she actually directly culpable for complicity in the murders herself? There is room for doubt on that, which is why this blog - which makes the case for her innocense insofar as the murder conviction goes - is worth reading and listening to just to provide food for thought.

 

[JSinUK]

Now that the trials of all four defendents have concluded with "guilty" verdicts, I just thought I might share this with you. It is a blog hosted by Bethany McKee's family which tries to argue the case for her innocence insofar as a murder charge is concerned.....

http://wsmmckee.blogspot.co.uk/

Certainly, it was the two male defendents in the case who actually carried out the physical strangulation of the victims. And Mckee seems to have been much less involved in the post mortem desecration of the bodies than the other female.

A case can be made - not saying that I am convinced by it - that McKee did not know the men were going to be killed until after it happened. Once it had happened, of course, her own decisions were very poor, participating in the use of the victim's money to buy drink and drugs and even to put fuel in her own car. Sickest of all perhaps is that one of the men was a father with child's toys in his car, which McKee then took for her own child. And when she did finally speak to others about what had happened, it was not a tearful confession and a plea for help in getting her away from the people directly responsible, or desire to see justice done when she felt safe - which is how an innocent person would have behaved. Her father chose to cryptically view it as all those things, but in actuality she contacted him to ask for help in the disposal of the bodies.

Clearly, her bad choices after the crime suggest some high degree of culpability. And it is behaviour serious enough to warrant some kind of charges and serious jail time. But whatever bad choices she made after the murders, was she actually directly culpable for complicity in the murders herself? There is room for doubt on that, which is why this blog - which makes the case for her innocence insofar as the murder conviction goes - is worth reading and listening to just to provide food for thought.

 

[OkieGranny]

From September:

http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2015/09/25/final-defendant-in-grisly-joliet-murder-gets-life-in-prison/

The last person convicted in the 2013 deaths of two Joliet men who were lured to a house on promises of a good time has been sentenced.

Illinois law required a life sentence for Adam Landerman after he was found guilty in June of the strangulation deaths of Eric Glover and Terrance Rankins, both 22.