"You need to demand the state show how they can overcome her story," Herbert told the jury. Herbert countered by arguing the burden to prove or disprove Monica's statements to police and the jury fell on the prosecutors. In closing arguments today, Senior Deputy District Attorney Allan Smith argued that Monica's rapidly changing stories on both men's killings never stacked up against forensic evidence. "I think she may be looking forward to moving on with her life."
The case will be appealed while she remains incarcerated. "She just doesn't have a good filter," Herbert said outside of court. On the eve of her trial, she even signed a fellow jail inmate's birthday card "from Jackson County's sweetest murderer, Susan Monica." Prosecutors chalked the changes up to her repeated attempts to re-align her story to meet what she thought detectives knew at the time or the forensic evidence they were about to find.ĭefense attorney Christine Herbert acknowledged that Monica's defense was hampered by her own statements, which didn't stop after her arrest and included letters to the Mail Tribune and monitored telephone calls while inside the Jackson County Jail. Much of the case against Monica swirled around her ever-changing stories to investigators on how the shootings occurred. "The jury held you accountable," Barnack said. It took the 10-man, two-woman jury barely an hour to elect a foreperson and reach its verdict. The so-called "mercy defense" is also not acknowledged under Oregon law. The jury didn't buy Monica's claim that she shot Delicino five times in the head in self defense during a struggle in her barn or that she shot Haney to put him out of his misery. Come get him out of my pig pen,'" Monica said while seated in court. "I couldn't bring myself to call you simply to say, 'Hey, your father has finally showed up. Monica also addressed Haney's family, sticking to her story that she had discovered a disemboweled Haney inexplicably in her pen being devoured by pigs and near death a month after he disappeared in the fall of 2013. Monica could have awaited sentencing but ask for it to be imposed as soon as the jury was dismissed, saying "it doesn't seem to matter."
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The FBI's criteria for a serial killer is one who kills at least two people in separate acts that are not part of a running crime spree. She was given credit for time served in the Jackson County Jail on her remaining convictions. "It may sound harsh, but you are a cold-blooded killer," Barnack said.īarnack sentenced Monica to two consecutive life terms with mandatory 25-year minimums on the murder charges. You valued pigs more than you value people.
"You shot two people and fed them to your pigs," Jackson County Circuit Court Judge Tim Barnack told a quiet Monica, who was prone to outbursts during her trial. Monica never took responsibility for their deaths throughout 18 hours of videotaped interviews and her six-day jury trial, and told investigators she feared her pigs would be killed if she reported the deaths.
She was charged in the shooting death and dismemberment of 59-year-old Stephen Delicino in the summer of 2012 and 56-year-old handyman Robert Haney in September 2013.īoth were fed to her pigs and what was left of their remains was discovered in January 2014 on the 20-acre farm off West Evans Creek Road. The 66-year-old Monica sat quietly as jurors in the Jackson County courtroom reeled off unanimous verdicts on two counts each of murder and abuse of a corpse. Described as a "cold-blooded killer" by the judge in her case, convicted serial killer Susan Monica was sentenced to a minimum of 50 years in prison for murdering two men more than a year apart, dismembering them and feeding them to her pigs in separate acts at her Wimer farm.
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