$150K Settlement From Insurance Co. in Hickory Nightmare Wrongful Death Case

The parents of a woman charged with grisly double murder settled a wrongful death lawsuit brought by the mother of one of her alleged victims.

Liberty Mutual Insurance will foot the $150,000 bill for the death of 22-year-old Eric Glover, said attorney Michael Bolos.

Glover's mother, Nicole Jones, had named the parents of 19-year-old Alissa Massaro as defendants in a wrongful death lawsuit.

The parents, Phillip and Brittany Massaro, both knew Alisa Massaro "was a frequent user of illicit drugs and controlled substances and that many of the persons that visited her in the 1121 North Hickory premises were also users of drugs and other controlled substances, engaged in criminal conduct, and were prone to acts of violence," the lawsuit said.

Nicole Jones agreed to let Phillip and Brittany Massaro off the hook if their insurance company pays out the $150,000. But the same day the settlement was accepted, she went after their daughter and the three other young people charged with murdering her son. Alisa Massaro and the other three—Adam Landerman, 19, Joshua Miner, 25, and Bethany McKee, 19—all are jailed and facing murder charges in connection with the January deaths of Glover and Terrance Rankins, also 22.

"An intentional tort like murder is not insurable," Bolos said.

Alisa Massaro and McKee allegedly lured Rankins and Glover to Massaro’s home on Hickory Street, where Miner and Landerman strangled the two men to death, according to police reports obtained exclusively by Patch. After the killings, Massaro and Miner had sex atop the dead men’s bodies, the reports said. The four then concocted a plan to dismember the corpses of their victims and began procuring supplies, including a blowtorch, to carry out the plan. Miner reportedly intended to keep the dead men’s teeth as trophies.

Besides continuing the case against Alisa Massaro, Miner, McKee and Landerman, Bolos said the manner in which the $150,000 will be divided also has to be determined. He pointed out that other relatives, including Glover's father, Eric Glover Sr., might want a cut of the money.

The elder Glover, 41, is doing five years in Stateville for being an armed habitual criminal, driving with a revoked or suspended license, aggravated driving under the influence, and possessing or using a weapon as a felon.

Eric Glover Sr. is also waiting to stand trial for the 2002 murder of  his girlfriend.

Phillip Massaro was asleep on a couch in his Hickory Street house while Glover and Rankins were strangled to death a floor above him, according to the police reports obtained by Patch.

He woke at one point and asked McKee about all the noise, a report said.

McKee “told him a TV broke upstairs and nothing’s going on and Phillip said, quit the racket or he’ll go up there and call the police,” a report said.

Phillip Massaro never did call the police.

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