Monica valued her pigs more than the 2 men.
By Raif Karerat
WASHINGTON, DC: Convicted serial killer Susan Monica was sentenced to a minimum of 50 years in prison for murdering two men, dismembering them, and feeding them to her pigs in separate acts staged more than a year apart.
She was charged in the shootings and dismemberment of 59-year-old Stephen Delicino in the summer of 2012 and 56-year-old handyman Robert Haney in September 2013. Both were subsequently fed to her pigs, after which the remnants of the men’s bodies were found in 2014.
According to the Mail Tribune, Monica feared her pigs would be killed if she reported the deaths.
“You shot two people and fed them to your pigs,” Jackson County Circuit Court Judge Tim Barnack told Monica, during her sentencing. “I don’t know how else I can put it. You valued pigs more than you value people.”
“It may sound harsh, but you are a cold-blooded killer,” Barnack said.
Monica also addressed Haney’s family, sticking to her story that she had inexplicably discovered a disemboweled Haney in her pen being devoured by pigs a month after he disappeared in the fall of 2013.
The jury did not believe Monica’s claims 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 while he was being devoured by her animals.
During closing argument, Senior Deputy District Attorney Allan Smith brought out a dummy’s head, took Monica’s rifle, and emphatically showed the only way she could have fired the final two rounds into the back of Delicino’s head was if he were lying face-down at her feet, reported the Tribune.
“That confrontation isn’t self-defense in anybody’s world, except maybe the defendant’s,” Smith stated.