MEDFORD, Oregon – A convicted double killer’s chilling confession has left police and the public baffled. Susan Monica, previously known as Steven Buchanan, was convicted of first-degree murder for the gruesome slayings of two handymen on their Oregon farm.
Monica, 71, is currently serving a 50-year sentence in an Oregon women’s prison. During her 2015 trial, she shockingly boasted about having 17 other victims. She confessed to feeding the bodies of her victims to her pet pigs, a tactic similar to Canadian serial killer Robert Pickton.
The first victim, 59-year-old Stephen Delicino, was hired to work on the 20-acre farm that Monica, a U.S. Navy veteran of the Vietnam War, purchased in 1991. Delicino was reportedly hired in 2012, and his body was later found rotting in plastic bags on the property.
A year later, Monica hired 56-year-old Robert Haney as a handyman. When his children hadn’t heard from him for months, they reported him missing. It was later discovered that Haney had used Monica’s bank card at a Walmart just a day after she claimed he had left the property.
During the investigation, authorities found the farm in a deplorable state, much like Robert Pickton’s farm. They also found a human leg and, during interrogation, Monica claimed to have put Haney “out of his misery” after finding her pet pigs in a “feeding frenzy” devouring his intestines.
After the chilling discoveries, the convicted killer callously confessed, “I do not value human life very much. The only thing wrong with this planet is there’s people on it. If it weren’t for us, all the other animals, dodo birds and whatever else, would still be here.”
The families of the victims believe there may be more to the story, leaving both the police and the public with lingering questions.