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Cell Phone From Hickory St Double Murder Still Missing, Says Source

The cell phone supposedly used to report the murders of two Joliet men has not been located, a source said.

 

An extensive search along Interstate 80 for an alleged killer's cell phone in the wake of last month's double murder on Hickory Street came up empty, a source said.

The missing phone is the same one 18-year-old Bethany McKee supposedly used to call her father, Bill McKee of Shorewood, to let him know two young men were dead in the home of her friend Alisa Massaro, also 18.

Bill McKee passed that information along to officers with the Shorewood Police Department, who in turn alerted the Joliet police, sources said. Joliet police officers then headed to Massaro's home on North Hickory Street and found the bodies of Terrance Rankins and Eric Glover, both 22.

Plastic bags covered the heads of Rankins and Glover, a source said, and the two bodies were discovered in the midst of Massaro and two of her friends, Adam Landerman, 19, and Joshua Miner, 24. Massaro, Landerman and Miner were playing the video game Grand Theft Auto when the cops showed up, a source said.

Massaro, Landerman and Miner were taken into custody at the house and charged with first-degree murder. McKee was later caught in Kankakee, where she was heading with her young daughter to see the child's father. She also was charged with first degree murder. The four are in the Will County jail awaiting trial.

Police, police dogs and Illinois Department of Transportation workers scoured the area along I-80 after the grisly discovery on Hickory Street. A court filing from this week says prosecutors have a DVD "containing the recording of defendant McKee's trip to Interstate 80 to locate her cell phone."

A source close to the investigation says that phone was never found. Joliet police Cmdr. Brian Benton declined to confirm or deny whether the phone was located.

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Related Topics: Adam Landerman, Alisa Massaro, Bethany McKee, Cell Phone, Eric Glover, Hickory Street, Joliet double murder, Joshua Miner, Police, and Terrance Rankins

Ihaveaname

4:29 pm on Friday, February 15, 2013

I like how they throw in "playing the video game Grand Theft Auto" just to cause a stir up in this. I would also like to know what cars they drove, music they were listening to, and tv shows they've seen since they were toddlers. Anyone that has actually played a video game knows what that source wants to stir up and what it doesn't effect.

Also I am glad I saw this story. A while back (I think it was only around 1 or 2 days after this incident) I was curious as to why there was a backup on westbound 80 with the dogs and everything described here. It's truly amazing that (even though they might not have been successful) dogs can help to sniff out a phone that someone threw out their car window a day later. Incredible animals they are.

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chris

11:37 am on Saturday, February 16, 2013

What do they expect to find on this cell phone? There must have been something on it for them to look for it.
I would like to know what drugs they were on forget the video game, games are games they don't make you do anything, however drugs do mess with people's minds.

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SMERFY

9:13 pm on Saturday, February 16, 2013

the video of the killing she had it on her phone

theres a video of beth with terrances **** in her mouth walking around a source i know has seen the video and told me about the video on the phone because she sent them th video

Amanda

11:59 am on Saturday, February 16, 2013

If she was heading to Kankakee, maybe check along 55 south. Or 53.

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DrealDT

2:12 pm on Saturday, February 16, 2013

Amanda now that would be the smarties thing to do but i believe it was a blank mission all together i mean the phone to me serves no propose stop trying to prolong the case unless that's McKee defense to say she wasn't there or something

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lala

2:29 pm on Saturday, February 16, 2013

Maybe there are pictures on it that the police want to see? Wonder why she threw it out the window? Can the cell phone provider get pictures for the police?

I too do not believe playing GTA would cause anyone to do what those animals did.

Becky Hart

3:45 pm on Saturday, February 16, 2013

Drecks u are an ignorant mother fucker dude for real how is this a joking matter and I don't care y'all can kick me off this site cuz this is ridiculous and crude. Dreck u need to get help cuz u are not any better then the four that did this....sick fuck

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Fernando

4:09 pm on Saturday, February 16, 2013

Rock on Becky. One tough chick!

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chris

6:36 pm on Saturday, February 16, 2013

The cell provider can't get any pictures from the phone unless she backed them up. Doubtful.

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Steve scooberson

7:08 pm on Saturday, February 16, 2013

The chick wit the blue hair looks like June booboo (honey booboo's mom). Prolly ate the phone.

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DrealDT

11:20 pm on Saturday, February 16, 2013

Lala didn't think about pics your right but still don't believe that alone will still stop the case but your right its a big part to know who played what part

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MM

8:18 am on Sunday, February 17, 2013

The reason they mentioned the other two playing Grand Theft Auto was to show that their previous action of killing two innocent people had no affect on their psyche. As if they were saying, "Heh, I just killed somebody, lets go play a video game now".

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Colette Revels

10:49 am on Sunday, February 17, 2013

she does look like honey boo boo them I hope somebody strangles them and leave them the rot in a jail cell sorry to be so mean but the stupid b@#$* is a mom how do you not think of your daughter u selfish b@#$*

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Jax

5:32 am on Monday, February 18, 2013

OMG that is freaking hilarious...

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Bob Glover

10:00 am on Monday, February 18, 2013

Rankins and glover were killed in self defense. They went to the girl's home to rob her. There is no way that a girl would invite a footballplayer/wrestler to her home to rob them with no weapon.

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Steve Stevens

1:38 pm on Monday, February 18, 2013

Bob I'm guessing the partying and having sex on top of them was in self defense too right

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Wendell

11:41 pm on Monday, February 18, 2013

Bob Glover???
Terrance and Eric was called to the house the nite before the bodies were found!! Terrance posted a pic of the killers on Instagram that same nite!!!!! Self defense??? No gun was used, nobody was stabbed, they were strangled to death guy!!! Do you know how horrific of a death that is to be strangled??? Watch what you say with your comments out of respect for the victims families!!!! You might have been joking or whatever, but to a reader like me, that is a very racist comment you made!!!

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Wendell

11:43 pm on Monday, February 18, 2013

And bob,
The murders were premeditated!!!!

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Bob Glover

9:08 am on Tuesday, February 19, 2013

The news stories are based on what Rankin and Glovers homies said. This is a case of the predators becoming the prey. They say the motive was robbery. Yet their is no mention of rankin or glover having jobs. It sounds like they lived with their parents. Glover had a fiance and a 2 year old child. How much were they robbed of? The girls lured them by being 18 white and not too bright. A black guy is more likely to win the lotto than be victimized by a white women. Whereas white women are victimized by black males everyday. Looking at the way the alleged killers are being lynched in the media, who can blame them for not going to the police.

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Nick

4:06 pm on Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Bob you aren't a very intelligent individual are you?

Hartz

6:12 pm on Tuesday, February 19, 2013

If you read the whole story, or the other stories that were posted you would see how wrong you are. They may have been in a "compromised" position when being strangled. There are some people who do that for enjoyment, and in this case it went too far. The minders are nothing but sick animals. Rankins was a football player, I'm not sure what glover did, but nowhere did it say he was NOT employed.
Nothing in my gut tells me that they were there to harm these "girls". The sick twisted Miner could've forced the girls to lure the boys there, he could have been threatening them (which is not unlikely); or he could have drugged them to a point where they had no idea what they were doing. OR.. The girls were trying to impress these boys and are just as sick and twisted as they are. All of this will come out in court; but I would bet money that no where will it state rankins and glover had any thoughts of robbing them.

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Wendell

11:23 am on Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Okay, I see now bob, you're a big time Internet racist!!! Talk all that big ish behind your screen who's looking for attention!!! You talk all types of mess about black people on different Internet sites, but in the real world, your best friend is probably black!!! Get a life bob!!!! Who cares where they worked or who they lived with, they were KIDNAPPED, MURDERED, and taken away from their families!!! I don't even think the murders was even about race, because terrance told his mom where he was going!!!! But of course, a racists prick is going to try and make it what it's not!!!

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CW

1:28 pm on Wednesday, February 20, 2013

What does it matter what color, race, gender these people were????? The fact of the matter is 2 people have died, there are many holes in the story, family and friends are grieving....That's the DAMN POINT!!!!

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kat wash

8:52 pm on Thursday, March 14, 2013

yall stupid...stop talking bad about this..2 boys lost their lives....may God have mercy on the ignorant ppl on here....

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Its me

8:18 am on Wednesday, April 3, 2013

I dont think it was so much as premeditated at the time the girls called Rankins and Glover over. I think they just wanted to use them for the free alcohol, I do believe it was stated that the girls asked them to bring alcohol with them! Maybe while Rankins & Glover were there they mentioned to one of the girls they had some drugs, or asked one if they wanted to get high or do a line and in turn the girl told Adam or Josh they had drugs and that spun the whole plan to rob them and it ended in murder. In the after math Beth "all of a sudden came to her senses" and fleed, hopeing it wasnt real! (which of course doesnt make it ok) The other 3 stuck around and did awful things "proving to one another" that they were "COOL" and now "BONDED"for life in this tragic event! It goes to show how the young minds of people like Adam Josh Alyssa and Beth can be influenced by one another and that the justice system doesnt work, as in Josh and his criminal record and the lack of punishment he didnt get in the past! I believe they should ALL spend the rest of their lives in jail, and Im willing to pay my taxes to see that happen, however, I also want my taxes to be used to prevent things like this from happening, meaning, punishing those that do crimes (Joshs past) by not letting the off with a slap on the hand hopeing it wont happen again!

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