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Monica: Pigs 'always need something to eat' Comment By Mark Freeman Mail Tribune MailTribune.com By Mark Freeman Mail Tribune Posted Apr. 16, 2015 at 11:05 AM Updated Apr 16, 2015 at 7:10 PM By Mark Freeman Mail Tribune Posted Apr. 16, 2015 at 11:05 AM Updated Apr 16, 2015 at 7:10 PM » RELATED CONTENT • Susan Monica's confession tapes reveal gory details, show changing stories... • Accused killer told police she shot both victims, let pigs feed on them... » Social News Updated:  Susan Monica told investigators during taped interviews that two hours after pumping seven bullets into Stephen Delicino's head, she stood over his body, her mind reeling. She always thought it was wrong to feed meat to pigs, but she never liked to waste anything. 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 today during her double-murder trial in Jackson County Circuit Court. "He was dead. (Pigs) need something to eat. They always need something to eat," she said. Monica said she then walked away and let the pigs start to devour the body of her friend of 10 years. Monica said she shot Delicino in self-defense as they were fighting over a rifle during an argument about stolen guns in her barn. The day after the shooting, Monica checked on the pigs and found them feeding on Delicino's body near a pen door. "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," and buried them in a hole on her property.    Updated:  T he lead investigator was so convinced detectives would discover more than two bodies on Susan Monica's 20-acre pig farm near Wimer that he told Monica he "would have bet my career" on it during their second day of videotaped interviews in the case, played before jurors at her double-murder trial today. When Monica heard Jackson County sheriff's Detective Eric Henderson say that line in court, she laughed, now knowing that investigators spent the ensuing three weeks digging more than 133 holes but found no other victims. But the videotaped interview showed just how convinced investigators were that they'd find more victims and that Monica wasn't telling the truth about how Stephen Delicino and Robert Haney ended up with bullet holes in their skulls and being fed to Monica's pigs. Monica interrupted court shortly before the noon recess to ask Jackson County Circuit Judge Tim Barnack to dismiss any family members of Robert Haney so they wouldn't hear what was about to be revealed in the tapes. Barnack said no, telling Monica that family members, because they are victims, are allowed to remain in court.  In the interview, Henderson chided Monica for lying about how the two victims died. He said he was sure there were more victims among the more than 100 drifters who spent time at her ranch in the 15 years she owned it, people whom no one else cared about. Moments later, Henderson said, "No one cared about Robert. You know that." At one point in the tapes, Henderson said he could "about 100 percent guarantee" there were more victims buried on the property. "Don't you want this to end, for crying out loud?" he said. "Haven't you had enough? Point us in the right direction so we can be done with it. It's over." "But you don't understand, it is over," Monica shot back during the interview. "There's nothing else out there." Monica then chided Henderson for not signing a piece of paper saying he would resign if investigators didn't find any more human remains on the farm. After the jury left before lunch, Barnack admonished Monica for interrupting the proceedings and told her to "follow these rules" that they'd laid out before the trial for how she could participate. "There are a lot of things I'm allowing you to do. We'll talk more about that later."   11:14 a.m. Claiming she is "not a murderer," accused serial killer Susan Monica relied on jailhouse revelations to soften her stories about how two people ended up dead from gunshot wounds to the head and eaten by her pigs at her Wimer farm. A day after her Jan. 10, 2014, admissions about the deaths of Robert Haney and Stephen Delicino more than a year apart, Monica summoned investigators from her jail cell saying she remembered new details about how Haney died in September 2013, according to videotapes played this morning before jurors in Monica's double-murder trial in Jackson County Circuit Court. Monica initially claimed Haney was being attacked by her pigs and she shot him as a mercy killing while he was lying on his back and alive. But the next day she changed her story to say Haney was on his stomach and probably dead when she shot him in the back of the skull. "I didn't realize that until a couple hours ago," she told sheriff's Detective Eric Henderson. "Up until a couple hours ago, I was putting him out of his misery. A couple hours ago, he was dead when I shot him. "I'm just going from what I realized a couple hours ago," repeated Monica, dressed in an orange jumpsuit. Monica also told Henderson she could not believe that her years-long running joke about shooting people and feeding them to her pigs was playing out in front of her. "I see my stupid sense of humor becoming reality," she said. "It's hard for me to believe it myself. The thing is, I'm not a murderer. I have a weird sense of humor, but I also have a logical mind." In the courtroom, Monica sat quietly. Jurors frequently looked over at Monica while the tapes were played this morning. Monica is accused of shooting 59-year-old Delicino in summer 2012 and 56-year-old Haney in September 2013 on her 20-acre farm in the 9100 block of West Evans Creek Road, then leaving their corpses for her pigs. Defense attorney Garren Pedemonte said in opening statements Tuesday that Delicino was shot in self-defense and that Haney was shot as a mercy killing of a man who already could have been dead. The state can't disprove these theories, he said. peopl By Mark Freeman Mail Tribune MailTribune.com By Mark Freeman Mail Tribune Posted Apr. 16, 2015 at 11:05 AM Updated Apr 16, 2015 at 7:10 PM » 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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