Videotapes played during day two of Joliet double murder trial

JOLIET, Ill. (WLS) -- Videotaped evidence was played during the second day of the trial of Joshua Miner, a suspected ringleader in a double murder in Joliet.

In January 2013, prosecutors say Miner and three others lured the victims with promises of a party. Instead, two victims were allegedly robbed and killed.

The relatives of Eric Glover and Terrance Rankins arrived Wednesday for the second day of Joshua Miner's trial.

Miner was among four people charged with the murders of Glover and Rankins last year in a Joliet home.

One of the officers who questioned Miner testified Wednesday.

Officer Patrick Schumacher said when Miner has handcuffed outside the house, "He stated they - the victims - had attempted to rape the girls. He has done one and Adam had done the other."

Questioning at the Joliet police station was videotaped the day of Miner's arrest.

In it, Miner tells the detectives:

"She said stop. I just freaked out and yelled, '(an expletive and racial epithet) get off her,' I put him in a head lock and tried to choke him out."

Miner describes he and co-defendant Adam Landerman were fighting with Glover and Rankins.

Miner told the detectives, "I finally get him on the ground. I said, 'Just (expletive) pass out and stop moving.'"

At a few points in the video, Miner demonstrates his actions on Detective Schumacher saying, "I put the force on his neck."

Last month, Bethany McKee was convicted of the murders and Alisa Massaro pleaded guilty to lessor charges in return for testifying against McKee. Massaro testified in McKee's trial that the four discussed robbing the victims and if they got caught, they planned to tell police the victims had tried to sexually assault the young women.

Also in the video, Miner says that he and Landerman watched as victims' bodies laid still, then discussed ways of disposing of the bodies. More of the videotape will be played during Thursday's trial.