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DOUBLE MURDER TRIAL Susan Monica's confession tapes reveal gory details, show changing stories Confession tapes played at trial also reveal Monica fessed up to second victim Comment By Mark Freeman Mail Tribune MailTribune.com By Mark Freeman Mail Tribune Posted Apr. 15, 2015 at 7:06 PM Updated Apr 16, 2015 at 11:00 AM By Mark Freeman Mail Tribune Posted Apr. 15, 2015 at 7:06 PM Updated Apr 16, 2015 at 11:00 AM » RELATED CONTENT • Monica on the stand: 'I generally shoot my animals more than once'... • Serial killer Susan Monica found guilty on all charges, gets 50 years... • Monica signed card, 'from sweetest murderer' • Jurors see shocking conditions of accused serial killer's farm... • Monica claims she never acted on murderous thoughts • Monica: Pigs 'always need something to eat' • Argument over stolen guns led to first shooting, Monica says » Social News As accused serial killer Susan Monica wrapped up her confession that she shot handyman Robert Haney as her pigs were goring him to near-death, investigators told her she still sounded short of coming clean about the details. A videotape of that confession shows Monica paused, sighed three times, rubbed her forehead and said, "There's something else I don't want to say that's just as bad." She asked Jackson County sheriff's Detective Eric Henderson for a piece of paper, then roughly sketched the barn and pig pens on her 20-acre Wimer farm and drew an X near the pen's fence. "Right there, about 3 feet down," Monica told Henderson. "There's part of another body. His name is Steve ... an Italian Steve." That's how detectives learned of a second victim, 59-year-old Stephen Frank Delicino, who died from gunshot wounds and whose body was devoured by pigs more than a year before Haney's death in September 2013, according to the videotape. After initially saying Delicino shot himself five times in the head with Monica's small .22-caliber pistol, Monica claimed in videotapes from a subsequent interview that she shot him several times in the head in self-defense after they argued inside her barn. She also claimed her pigs on their own dragged Delicino's body from the barn toward the pen door, at first licking blood from his head, according to the confession video played Wednesday in Jackson County Circuit Court during the first full day of testimony in Monica's double-murder trial. Monica told detectives that she later discovered that the pigs had dragged Delicino's body into the pen area, where she left him for about two weeks while the pigs "picked his bones clean." Eventually she buried his skull and other remains with an assortment of pig bones in the grave she marked on that paper, according to video snippets played during the prosecution's opening statements Tuesday. She almost got caught as she was burying the bones, but the remains went undiscovered until they were dug up Jan. 13, 2014, as the case of two counts of murder, two counts of abuse of a corpse and identity theft began to mount against Monica. Defense attorney Garren Pedemonte has called Monica's "oddball" personality and the gruesome details involving the pigs as "distractions" and that he believes the evidence does not refute Monica's self-defense claim nor is there proof Haney was alive when she shot him. The defense team has yet to offer any witnesses or cross-examine any prosecution witnesses. Neither has Monica, who was cleared to question some prosecution witnesses but it was unclear whether that will happen in front of the jury. Court was set to resume this morning when the last of Monica's taped confessions was scheduled to be played. Videotapes from a Jan. 10, 2014, interview played for jurors Wednesday showed Henderson was never sold on Monica's claim that Haney simply showed up in her pig pen at near death with his torso gored by pigs after being inexplicably gone for about a month. Instead of trying to render him aid, Monica said she went to her house, grabbed a .22-caliber rifle and shot him in the head as he was lying eviscerated on his back moaning but apparently still alive. "That was the only thing I could think of to put him out of his misery," Monica said in the interview. The next day, she summoned Henderson from jail for another interview, during which she said Haney was lying face-down and possibly not alive when she fired into the back of his skull, testimony showed. As Henderson pushed Monica to offer details of evidence investigators likely would find when they combed the  farm in the 9100 block of West Evans Creek Road, Monica eventually turned the conversation to Delicino, whom she described as a friend but a "meticulous thief" she suspected of stealing two guns from her. Delicino was heading out of town when Monica picked him up at his Pleasant Creek Road trailer and took him to her farm, where she bought his food-stamp card for $100 then confronted him about the stolen guns, according to testimony. A confrontation ensued, with Monica initially saying Delicino shot himself five times in the head as a suicide because he did not want to go back to prison, testimony showed. As the pigs were eating Delicino a few days later, Monica told Delicino's friend, who let him keep his trailer on her Pleasant Creek Road property, that Delicino had left town. "That was his plan so I told her," Monica said. "I went along with it." Delicino was never reported as missing. Weeks later, she said she collected his bones and dug the hole with her backhoe, burying some of Delicino's bones with those of pigs and other animals scattered around the farm. Monica told Henderson that a neighbor saw her tossing the bones in the hole and called sheriff's deputies. When deputies responded, she showed them the open hole and the bones, which one deputy recognized as pig bones, Monica said. She offered them a shovel to dig a few feet deeper, but they declined and left, Monica said. Had they dug 2 more feet, they likely would have discovered Delicino's bullet-riddled skull, Monica told Henderson. At one point on the tapes played Wednesday morning, Monica said she likes animals more than people. "I do not value human life very much," Monica said in the tapes. "My feeling is the only thing wrong with the planet is there's people on it. If not for us, all the other animals, even dodo birds, would be here." As jurors later were shown the map on which Monica showed investigators where to find Delicino's remains, prosecutor Mandi Gould added into the record pictures of Monica's pigs. Monica told Gould, "I wanna see," then sobbed as she was shown the photo. As more pig photos were displayed on a large screen, Monica shielded her eyes but peeked once. Those pigs were later euthanized. Reach reporter Mark Freeman at 541-776-4470 or www.twitter.com/MTwriterFreeman . Follow him at www.twitter.com/MTwriterFreeman . By Mark Freeman Mail Tribune MailTribune.com By Mark Freeman Mail Tribune Posted Apr. 15, 2015 at 7:06 PM Updated Apr 16, 2015 at 11:00 AM » Comment or view comments Reader Reaction » STAY INFORMED Email NewsLetter Sign Up Today Sign up for our newsletter and have the top headlines from your community delivered right to your inbox. Southern Oregon Directory Featured Businesses Loading... 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