SUSAN MONICA WIMER OREGON SERIAL
SUSAN MONICA WIMER OREGON TRIAL

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 Tribunereported.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. Source: Jennifer Pfalz, Liberty Village, April 22, 2015.MEDFORD, Ore. On her other convictions, she was credited for time served in jail.Īlthough Monica attempted to fire her defense attorneys mid-trial for attempting to search for records of prior mental health issues, Herbert said she plans to appeal her client’s conviction. Barnack then sentenced the Oregon woman to consecutive life terms with a minimum mandatory sentence of 25 years for both murders. Not quite two hours later, Monica returned to the court room to hear the jury’s decision and learn her fate.

Although Barnack attempted to ignore her, Monica raised her hands in the air and said, “I held the gun like this,” before being escorted out of the courtroom. As the jury was preparing to retire for deliberations, Monica rose to her feet and asked the judge to allow her to show the jury how she had shot Delicino in the head. Monica’s strangeness was evident in the court room. “Just because Susan Monica is different and strange and weird doesn’t make her a murderer,” Herbert insisted. Monica’s attorneys acknowledged their client’s odd behavior at times, which included threatening to kill people and feeding their remains to her pigs. Following her arrest, the Oregon woman sent letters to the local newspaper and even wrote “from Jackson County’s sweetest murderer, Susan Monica” on a fellow inmate’s birthday greeting card. Her attorney, Christine Herbert, admitted that representing Monica was difficult because she seemed unable to remain silent. Prosecutors arguing the case focused on the varying accounts of the murders given by Monica, which seemed to line up with what investigators had discovered or were about to find out. The jury rejected both of her stories and the 10 men and two women took only an hour to elect a foreperson and make a decision. She had previously said Delicino committed suicide by shooting himself in the head five times. She claimed to have killed Delicino in self-defense, while the two were struggling in the barn, with five shots to the head. She said she could not bear to inform his family of how he died and shot the handyman to end his suffering, which isn’t recognized as a defense under Oregon law. She stuck to her claim that she did not feed his remains to her pigs, but instead found Haney disemboweled and near death in her pig pen being eaten alive by the hogs. The sentence could have been decided on a later date, but the newly-convicted killer requested the judge impose it immediately after the jury’s dismissal, saying, “It doesn’t seem to matter.” Before her sentence was read, Monica spoke to the family of Haney, who disappeared in 2013. Referring to the fact she told detectives she was afraid her pigs would be put down if she notified authorities of the deaths, the judge said, “You value pigs more than you value people.”

SUSAN MONICA WIMER OREGON TRIAL

Although she was interviewed for 18 hours and on trial for six days, she never confessed to killing the two men. In January 2014, what remained of the men, which had not been consumed by the hogs, were found on Monica’s farm, located off West Evans Creek Road. Both men died of gunshot wounds and were fed to the pigs on Monica’s 20-acre ranch in southwestern Oregon, where she welded wrought iron fences and gates. Monica, of Wimer, Oregon, was silent while the jury announced its unanimous verdicts of guilty of two counts of murder and two counts of abuse of a corpse in the 2012 death and dismemberment of Stephen Delicino, 59, and the September 2013 death and dismemberment of handyman Robert Haney, 56.

SUSAN MONICA WIMER OREGON SERIAL

During sentencing in a Jackson County courtroom, the Judge Tim Barnack described the convicted serial murderer as a “cold-blooded killer.” – Susan Monica, 66, who dismembered two men and fed them to her pigs is now serving a sentence of a least 50 years. Woman Kills Two Men and Feeds Them to Pigs

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