She said Delicino suffered three to four gunshot wounds to the head, but there was no evidence one way or another about the self-defense claim. Vance said she couldn't determine whether the ax blows came before or after Haney died. Some of his remains were found in plastic bags in her barn.Ī State Police forensic anthropologist, Veronica Vance, testified that Haney's legs had been chopped off with an ax, and the thigh bones showed signs of being gnawed by an animal. She later questioned whether he was alive when she shot him.ĭefense attorney Garren Pedemonte argued there was no concrete evidence to rebut Monica's claims that she shot Delicino in self-defense or to show that Haney was actually alive when Monica shot him. She said she came on him a month later as pigs were disemboweling him, and she shot him to ease his suffering. Monica told investigators Haney disappeared in the summer of 2013. She variously claimed that Delicino shot himself repeatedly in the head and also that she shot him in self-defense and he was eaten by her pigs before she buried his remains on her 20-acre farm in southern Oregon, Smith reminded jurors. Monica's changing stories about how she shot Delicino and Haney never matched the forensic evidence, Allan Smith, senior assistant deputy district attorney, told jurors in closing arguments. The case will be appealed, the defense said. Monica asked for sentencing as soon as the jury was dismissed, saying "it doesn't seem to matter." Prosecutors said Stephen Delicino, 59, was killed in 2012 and Robert Haney, 56, died in 2013.
"It may sound harsh, but you are a cold-blooded killer," Barnack said.
You valued pigs more than you value people. "You shot two people and fed them to your pigs," the judge told Monica, 66. The Jackson County jury found Susan Monica guilty of murdering two men about a year apart, then abusing their corpses by feeding them to the animals at her farm, The Medford Mail Tribune reported.Ĭircuit Judge Tim Barnack immediately sentenced Monica to a minimum 50 years in prison. (AP) Jurors spent only about an hour deliberating Tuesday before convicting an Oregon woman of killing two handymen and feeding their corpses to her pigs. Her response? According to what Henderson said to the interviewer on Oxygen TV, Susan told him that if she admitted to the true number of bodies on her property, estimating 17 or so, she would for sure spend the rest of her life in prison.MEDFORD, Ore. And I truly believe the reason Detective Fox stepped in, playing bad cop, was because of what she said to Detective Henderson when he was asking her if they were going to find any additional bodies on her property.
I’m not a detective and even I felt secondhand embarrassment just hearing her say that. And Fox did not buy into Monica’s story about Stephen shooting himself in the head multiple times. He knew the improbability of two handymen ending up dead on Susan’s property, coincidentally devoured by pigs in a two-year time span. “So what you’re saying is you just won the reverse lottery,” Fox stated. Detective Fox eventually came into the room, scooted closer to Susan, and began playing a little bit of bad cop. A fight broke out between the two of them, which led to Stephen turning Monica’s gun on himself and putting five bullets into his skull. She had claimed that Stephen was known to steal a variety of items and was certain he had attempted to steal her guns. Stephen Delicino, 59, was a handyman who worked off of Monica’s property in 2012, just a year prior to Robert’s arrival.