As a welfare recipient, Haney used food stamps, or an EBT card to make purchases.Īccording to Haney’s son, his dad and Monica had a professional arrangement in that she would pay him in cash in exchange for some handiwork and architectural duties. He was a divorcee and loved the secluded location. Haney was hired by the killer after she found him on Craigslist. Robert Haney was reportedly estranged from his family which seemed to fit in perfectly with what Monica had in store for him. Monica found him and hired him as a handyman. However, it appeared she needed help with her farmyard chores and that’s when her first victim, 59-year-old Stephen Delecino, comes into play.
The bucolic lifestyle seemed to fit into her anti-social disposition. The farm was secluded and her nearest neighbor was miles away. That vocation wouldn’t last and in 1991 she decided to buy a 20-acre farm in Wimer, Oregon. After fighting in the Vietnam war, Monica went on to become an engineer. The killer started out as a heroic wartime veteran. Although technically a serial killer is a murderer who kills three or more people, who knows what Monica would have done had she not been caught? Or if there are others she hasn’t admitted to. Her crimes are so grotesque and twisted she has become a notorious individual among true crime enthusiasts. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.Susan Monica is currently serving two life sentences in prison. 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.Ĭopyright 2015 Associated Press. Vance said she couldn't determine whether the ax blows came before or after Haney died. His remains were found in plastic bags in her barn.
She later questioned whether he was alive when she shot him.ĭefense attorney Garren Pedemonte has argued there's 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. She told investigators Haney disappeared in the summer of 2013. Monica told investigators she shot Delicino in self-defense and said he was eaten by her pigs before she buried his remains on her 20-acre farm. Monica is charged with murder and abusing the corpses of 59-year-old Stephen Delicino in 2012 and Haney in 2013. In other testimony, a 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 told her story to jailers last week and appeared as an 11th-hour witness, with the prosecution preparing to finish its case Tuesday, the Medford Mail Tribune () reported. "I got chills from the birthday card," said the 23-year-old inmate, who is serving time for violating probation from a burglary conviction and met Monica in the Jackson County Jail.įarris said the April 9 birthday greeting came a few days after Monica told her about the killing.
Jordan "Janae" Farris testified Monday that Susan Monica also confided that she shot one of the victims, 56-year-old Robert Haney, with a shotgun and fed him to her pigs. AP's earlier story is below.Ī witness in the trial of a southern Oregon woman charged with killing two handymen and feeding their corpses to her pigs has testified the woman signed a birthday card in jail with this phrase: "from the sweetest murderer in Jackson County." Prosecutors said 59-year-old Stephen Delicino was killed in 2012 and 56-year-old Robert Haney died in 2013. The Medford Mail Tribune reported the Jackson County jury found Susan Monica guilty Tuesday of murdering two men about a year apart then abusing their corpses by feeding them to the animals at her farm.Ĭircuit Judge Tim Barnack immediately sentenced Monica to a minimum 50 years in prison. (AP) - Jurors spent only about an hour deliberating before convicting an Oregon woman of killing two handymen and feeding their corpses to her pigs.