In this case, it was Haney's Oregon Trail EBT card. Denney said that in such cases, any bank or special accounts in the person's name are checked. Haney's family were concerned for some time: They hadn't seen or heard from Haney for a number of months. 1, the family of Robert Haney contacted the JCSO to file a missing person's report. That all changed after the deputies' discovery at her ranch.ĭenney stated that on Jan. Initially, Monica was arrested earlier that day, Jan. Julie Denney, Monica's arrest came after deputies discovered human remains on her 20-acre ranch located at 9184 West Evans Creek Road.
She would eventually leave California, moving to the Wimer area.Īccording to Jackson Co. of Veterans Affairs, was Monica was born on Jas Steven Buchanan and enlisted in the Navy during the Vietnam War.įollowing an honorable discharge, she began living as a woman, calling herself Susan Monica. That's when Susan Monica, then 65, an eccentric woman who sometimes kept to herself and was rumored of having a volatile temper, was arrested for double homicide. In January 2014, Wimer residents and those in nearby Rogue River were shocked to discover that one of their own had some grisly secrets. Murder.Įspecially the Pig Farm Killer AKA Susan Monica. The local community social media platforms are filled with people complaining about speeding and tailgating or upset about gunshots and tannerite devices being set off.Īnd, you'll find people online vigorously supporting those aforementioned activities. For over the last one hundred plus years, Wimer has attracted a wide variety of people: Lumberjacks, prospectors and settlers to out of state retirees, cannabis farmers, hippies, sovereign citizens and oh so many others. It's an unincorporated community in the Evans Valley area, north of Rogue River. Reality check: Most days, it's the Florida of Southern Oregon. On the surface, it does look like an idyllic wilderness with quaint houses and jovial folks. If not for us, all the other animals, even dodo birds, would be here." - Susan Monica during her videotaped interrogation.Ĭontrary to a popular belief held by some, small rural communities aren't utopias. My feeling is the only thing wrong with the planet is there's people on it. 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.A Chapter of Local History Some Might Want Forgotten “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.