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DOUBLE MURDER TRIAL Argument over stolen guns led to first shooting, Monica says Monica says she left body for pigs because she 'didn't want to waste anything' Comment By Mark Freeman Mail Tribune MailTribune.com By Mark Freeman Mail Tribune Posted Apr. 16, 2015 at 7:17 PM Updated Apr 17, 2015 at 9:22 AM By Mark Freeman Mail Tribune Posted Apr. 16, 2015 at 7:17 PM Updated Apr 17, 2015 at 9:22 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 takes rare opportunity to cross-examine a witness in her double-murder trial... • Monica told police she shot victims, let pigs feed on them • Susan Monica's confession tapes reveal gory details, show changing stories... » Social News Accused serial killer Susan Monica said that two hours after pumping seven bullets into Stephen Delicino's head during an argument, she stood over his body near her barn door, her mind reeling over what to do next. Monica told investigators in the last of 18 hours of videotaped confessions that she considered reporting the case to authorities. But she thought of the 1973 movie "Soylent Green," a futuristic film in which people are fed processed bodies of dead people, she said during the interviews, which were played before jurors Thursday during her double-murder trial in Jackson County Circuit Court. And she knew her pigs were already showing interest in the body. "He was dead. (Pigs) need something to eat. They always need something to eat," said Monica, who claimed that's when she walked away and let the pigs start devouring the body of her friend of 10 years. "I didn't want to waste anything," she said. That interview was taped Jan. 13, 2014, as police were searching Monica's 20-acre Wimer farm for Delicino's body. It lays out the final story Monica told of how two men ended up with bullets to their skulls and their bodies devoured by pigs more than a year apart at her farm. It was also the final testimony Jackson County sheriff's Detective Eric Henderson offered in Monica's ongoing trial on two counts each of murder and abuse of a corpse as well as identity theft. Testimony was scheduled to resume today. In addition to Delicino's murder, Monica is charged with shooting 56-year-old handyman Robert Harry Haney in the skull in September 2013 and letting her pigs feed on his body, then using his Oregon Trail card at local grocery stores for the remainder of the year. Thursday's testimony was the first time the jury heard in detail Monica's claims that she shot the 59-year-old Delicino in self-defense in summer 2012 as they were fighting over a rifle during an argument about stolen guns. She said she then let her pigs devour the evidence. Both deaths mirror the 66-year-old Monica's self-described "weird sense of humor" in which she regularly told people she would shoot them and feed them to her pigs, according to the tapes. Defense attorneys have said the pig activity and her "odd-ball" mannerisms were "distractions" and that prosecutors have no evidence refuting Monica's eventual claims that Haney likely was dead already when she shot him and that Delicino was shot in self-defense. Henderson said from the witness stand Thursday that no witnesses have contradicted Monica's versions, "but I didn't believe her stories at all." On Thursday, jurors heard her last story. After two days of sticking to a story that Delicino committed suicide by shooting himself in the head five times, Monica recanted in the Jackson County Jail interview with Henderson in which she said they did argue about whether Delicino had stolen two guns from her. But in this final interview, Monica said she shot Delicino with a .22-caliber Derringer once in the head as they both struggled for a rifle she was holding during the argument in a room inside her large barn. Monica told Henderson that, after first slumping to the ground, Delicino jumped up and began to chase her, then she systematically fired four more bullets from the small revolver into his head. Then she paused her recounting and began laughing. "I remember now I need to throw it (the gun) away because it can't do anything," she said. "I shot him five times in the head and it didn't do anything." Monica said she fired two more skull shots with her .22-caliber rifle, then spent the next two hours in her room pondering what to do. When she returned, she found that the pigs had entered the hallway where Delicino's body was and they had dragged his body toward the door to an outside pen. The day after the shooting, Monica checked on the pigs and found them feeding on Delicino's body, which was still in the hallway. "That grossed me out a whole bunch," she said. By the second day, the pigs had dragged the body inside the pen, she said. "After a couple days, I helped them out by taking off his clothes," she told investigators. Two weeks later, she collected what was left of the bones, which she described as "pretty well picked over," for what she called a proper burial. She used her backhoe to dig a 6-foot-deep hole and placed his remains on the bottom and then covered them with about 2 feet of dirt. Not wanting to "waste" a hole, she placed animal bones on top of Delicino's remains and filled in the hole, she said on videotape. "I wasn't thinking about disgracing him, but I had half a hole," she said on the tape. Henderson told Monica in the tape played Thursday he was so convinced detectives would discover more bodies on her farm that he "would have bet my career" on it. When Monica heard that videotaped line in court Thursday, she laughed, now knowing that investigators spent the ensuing three weeks digging more than 133 holes but found no other victims. Henderson said in court Thursday that at the time of the interviews he did believe they would find more bodies. Reach reporter Mark Freeman at 541-776-4470 or [email protected] . Follow him at www.twitter.com/MTwriterFreeman .       By Mark Freeman Mail Tribune MailTribune.com By Mark Freeman Mail Tribune Posted Apr. 16, 2015 at 7:17 PM Updated Apr 17, 2015 at 9:22 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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