Two men and two women are due in court for killing and robbing two of their friends.
Friends and relatives of the victims of last week’s double homicide in Joliet gathered outside the Will County Courthouse this afternoon, asking that the alleged killers be brought to justice.
Eric Glover, 22, and Terrence O. Rankins, 22, were found strangled last week in a home on the 1100 block of North Hickory Street. Police officials said robbery appeared to be the motive for the slayings.
The four defendants -- Adam Landerman, 19; Alisa R. Massaro, 18; Bethany L. McKee, 18; and Joshua F. Miner, 24 -- each face first-degree murder charges and remain in custody on $10 million bond. Landerman is the son of a Joliet police officer. When the suspects were arrested Thursday afternoon, three of them were partying inside the home, officials have said.
Outside the courtroom this afternoon, friends of the victims said Rankins and Glover were called to the home by the women charged with their murders.
Casey Smith said Rankins called him Wednesday night and that Rankins had joked with him that the women were telling him and Glover that they had been “kidnapped.”
“He said they told him you ain’t going home tonight,” Smith recalled, adding that Rankins thought it was a joke. “They said you’re kidnapped and you ain’t going home.”
Smith said he tried calling Rankins multiple times later that same night, but no one answered.
Will County State’s Attorney James Glasgow said he will personally prosecute the case. Pointing to the “heinous” violence in this case, Glasgow said he felt it was something that was “the responsibility of the elected prosecutor to prosecute.”
A Will County judge set a preliminary hearing for the case for Feb. 5. Glasgow said he expects to present the case to a grand jury before that date.
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