commentary by Patrick H. Moore
A few days ago I remarked that serious American violent crimes — which of course include sexual assaults — tend to be unimaginative. My statement was, in part, probably a defense mechanism designed to help me endure the horrific nature of the endless array of awful crimes that I cover on All Things Crime Blog. Now I’ve discovered that I was wrong, dead wrong. While sleuthing around I uncovered a horrifying case of American necrophilia that included two dead corpses and the perpetrator, an 18-year-old murderess named Alisa Massaro, having sex with her boyfriend(s) atop the dead bodies.
Decadent though it undoubtedly is, Europe may never match this nightmare for sheer dark orgasmic horror. Unsurprisingly, this all took place in Joliet, Illinois, the same beleaguered mid-American community that now bears the stigma of having more “Krokodil” hospitalizations than any other American community up to this point. Here is what happened as reported by The Independent:
An 18-year-old woman who was apparently “obsessed with necrophilia,” has been accused of having three-way sex on top of the corpses of two men she and her sexual partners allegedly murdered.
A police investigation into a brutal double murder in the town of Joilet, Illinois is said to have found that the bodies of 22-year-olds Eric Glover and Terence Rankins were placed in a pile after being strangled, so that Alisa Massaro could lie on them to have sex.
One of the accused murderers, 24-year-old Joshua Miner, admitted to being Alisa Massaro’s long-term boyfriend. He stated that “for years back she wanted to have sex with a dead guy”. He is reported to have said that he had hoped to help Massaro with her fantasy by offering to have sex with her on top of the bodies of the two men he is accused of helping to kill. I am somewhat dubious of the validity of part of Miner’s claim. Massaro was only 18 at the time of the murders. Given her age, it seems improbable that she had been fantasizing for years about necrophilia.
Police reports seen by JoiletPatch.com apparently state that Massaro pooh-poohed Miner’s offer at first and said she didn’t actually want to do it, although she “later acknowledged she and Josh did have sexual intercourse on top of the two bodies”.
According to the police documents, a third member of the alleged 4-person murder team, Adam Landerman, may well have joined in with the copulating couple. In one of its articles, the Daily Mail reported that 19-year-old Landerman is the son of a local police sergeant.
It’s a tall task for the authorities to sort out what actually transpired in this horrific double murder and sexual violation. Along with Massaro, Miner and Landerman, 18-year-old Bethany McKee is also charged with taking part in the slayings, though not the sex act. All four of the accused parties have provided the police with differing versions of what happened.
According to McKee, Miner was the ringleader who came up with the plan to brutally murder Glover and Rankins. She apparently said Landerman was simply a “follower” who did whatever Miner told him to do.
According to what is known, the four alleged perpetrators lured the victims to the Massaro’s house in Joliet with plans to rob them but instead strangled them both. All four are being held in the Will County jail in lieu of $10 million bail.
Police Chief Mike Trafton said: “This is one of the most brutal, upsetting things I’ve ever seen in my 27 years in law enforcement…Not only the crime scene, but the disregard for common decency towards human beings.”
The mother of deceased victim Terence Rankins called the killings“demonic” and “evil”, and stated that her son and Eric Glover had been friends since childhood.
Although the circumstances of the murder are still under investigation, police have said they believe drugs were involved.
Alisa Massaro’s father is naturally shocked by what his daughter has been accused of and has stated:
“I don’t know what happened…I’m too devastated and I can’t talk about it.”
Later, he is reported to have added:
“All I can say is it’s a terrible thing that happened and I can’t believe my daughter had anything to do with it.”
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All I can say is that I’m awfully glad my daughter doesn’t hang out with this crowd.
The death penalty was abolished in Illinois in 2011 which means the stiffest penalty any of these perpetrators can receive is life in prison, which I’m sure many people will find upsetting. Based on the photographic evidence, one can’t help wondering how these young people became so vile at such a young age. And I’m not referring to their clothes or hair, but rather to their sullen “get off of my cloud” expressions. Even that by itself would not be that upsetting but when you combine their look with their actions, you cannot help but find it intensely disturbing.