"Oregon farmer who killed two men and fed corpses to pigs sentenced to 50 years in prison".
Susan Monica, Residence, Rogue River, Oregon, United States. Archived from the original on October 1, 2018. "Serial killer Susan Monica found guilty on all charges, gets 50 years".
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If not for us, all the other animals, even dodo birds, would be here." Trial and conviction My feeling is the only thing wrong with the planet is there's people on it. ĭuring her video-taped interrogation, which was later used in the trial, Monica stated: "I do not value human life very much. Some of Haney's remains were found in plastic bags in Monica's barn. Monica subsequently expressed uncertainty over whether Haney was dead when she shot him. She stated she later came upon him as his pigs were disemboweling him, and that she shot him to death to ease his suffering. In regard to Haney, Monica claimed he had disappeared from the farm in the summer of 2013. Monica claimed to have buried the remnants of his corpse after finding the pigs consuming him.
Upon interviewing Monica, detectives found she gave varying explanations as to how both men died, claiming both that Delicino had shot himself repeatedly in the head in 2012, and that she had also shot him in self-defense, after which her pigs began to eat portions of his body. The pigs Monica kept on the farm were subsequently euthanized, and a former resident claimed he had witnessed Monica feed deceased house pets and livestock to the pigs on different occasions. No additional remains were uncovered in their search. Investigators spent three weeks searching Monica's 20-acre (8.1 ha) farm near Rogue River, digging over 50 holes in the land searching for additional evidence and other potential victims. The state of Monica's property was squalid, with significant piles of garbage, animal bones, and no running water or sewage system.
The second individual initially was unidentified, but was later determined to be Delecino, a former employee of Monica's who had gone missing in 2012. Portions of remains from a total of two individuals were discovered the first belonged to 56-year-old Robert Haney, Monica's handyman, who had gone missing in September 2013.
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Upon searching her residence, they discovered evidence of human remains, which prompted a full search of the property.
Investigation Īuthorities arrived at Monica's residence on January 10, 2014, after it was discovered she had been using Haney's food stamps card, and confronted her with fraud charges. The following year, Robert Haney, a 56-year-old handyman, also disappeared in September 2013. Delecino disappeared some time in 2012 under mysterious circumstances. Susan Monica, who owned a farm in rural Wimer, Oregon, employed 59-year-old Stephen Delecino as a handyman on the property.