Susan Monica was found guilty of murdering two men just a year apart, and then destroying their corpses by feeding them to the animals on her farm, The Medford Mail Tribune previously reported. 'It appeared to me to be a human leg that had been severed mid-femur, down to the toes.” “It was clear that it was not an animal bone,' Jackson County Sheriff’s Detective Julie Denney said. When police arrived back at the farm for a second time, a search of the property uncovered a dismembered leg in the pond. Kim Jong-un promotes his younger sister Kim Yo-jong to North Korea's top government body.Police attended the farm twice, the first time Susan claimed that Robert had been recently upset about a family member being assaulted, which was true, and that he had fled the farm to seek revenge. The family reportedly fled the property and went straight to the police to file a missing person report. It made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.” 'His dog was still running around, and all his tools were there. Dog breeders warned to follow rules or face up to six months in prison.Susan Monica, seen with her lawyers in court, was found guilty of murdering two men just a year apart, (Image: © KOBI) Read More Related Articles “His leather jacket was there,' Jesse said. They became frightened when the farm owner asked them to clear out his trailer, which was still filled with all of his things. The family went bounding up to the farm on January 1, 2014, and was told by Susan that she hadn't heard from their dad in four months. Jesse, his daughter, said: “We hadn’t seen or heard from my dad for two months. Dad and son shocked as 'weirdos emerge from undergrowth' to confess they killed someone.The two men shared qualities of being loner 'recluses' with limited family members – the perfect victims for murder.īut Robert's family began to worry about him by September 2013 after they hadn't heard from him in months. She then quickly hired her second target Robert Haney, another man in his 50s, who found Susan through an ad online. Gabby Petito's fugitive fiancé Brian Laundrie accidentally caught in selfie, couple says.

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On Monday, a cellmate of Monica’s testified the defendant signed a birthday card in jail with this phrase: “from the sweetest murderer in Jackson County.Susan raised pigs, that she became extremely attached to, as well as chickens (Image: Getty Images/iStockphoto) Read More Related Articles “Just because Susan Monica is different and strange and weird doesn’t make her a murderer,” another defense lawyer, Christine Herbert, told the jury.Īt one point during the six-day trial, Monica herself cross-examined sheriff’s Detective Eric Henderson, who was the lead investigator in the case, despite having her own defense team. 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.

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