- A transgender killer fed the corpses of her victims to pigs
- Susan Monica murdered two of her handymen in 2012 and 2013
- She is now serving a 50-year sentence in a women's prison, despite being biologically male
A transgender woman murdered two handymen before feeding their bodies to her pigs and is now serving a prison sentence for her horrific crime in a women's prison.
Susan Monica, born Steven Buchanan, dismembered two handymen he hired to work on his farm in Oregon and made his pigs eat their corpses.
Relatives of the victims are convinced that Monica subjected others to her brutal and grotesque murders, and Monica herself referred to '17 other' victims in court.
Despite being a biological male, Monica has been serving her 50-year sentence in a women's prison since 2015 – with little mention of her transgender status in reporting or legal documents.
The Oregon State Department of Corrections lists the killer by her female name, Susan Monica, and is described as “female” in official records.
Susan Monica (pictured), born Steven Buchanan, dismembered two handymen he hired to work on his Oregon farm and let his pigs eat their corpses
The killer, who previously fought in the Vietnam War and is a U.S. Navy veteran, bought her 50-acre ranch in Oregon in 1991.
Monica hired her first known victim, 59-year-old Stephen Delicino, to work on the farm in 2012.
A confrontation reportedly occurred between the pair after Delicino was allegedly in possession of Monica's gun.
She claims the gun misfired during the altercation and struck Delicino in the back of the head, leaving him dead.
Police later found the remains of Delicino's dead body in plastic bags on Monica's property.
An American veteran who is now a transgender woman – Susan Monica (pictured) – murdered two handymen before feeding their bodies to her pigs and is now serving a prison sentence for her heinous crime in a women's prison
Just a year later, Monica struck again, this time choosing 56-year-old Robert Haney to work as a handyman on the farm.
Haney's children became very concerned after not hearing from their father for more than two months, so they filed a missing persons report with the Jackson County Sheriff's Office.
His son Jesse even visited Monica's farm on January 1, 2014 to ask where his father was and to retrieve his father's belongings.
'We hadn't seen or heard from my father for two months. We all started to panic,” Jesse said in a documentary about the murders.
“His leather jacket was there. His dog was still running around and all his tools were there… It made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up,” Jesse revealed to Oxygen.
Officers questioned Monica about Haney's whereabouts and she told them the employee had resigned and left the farm.
Concerns arose after evidence was found that Haney used Monica's EBT card at a Walmart the day after she claimed the handyman left.
This prompted law enforcement officers to search Monica's farm and they were shocked by the condition of the site – with piles of garbage, rotting food and industrial waste.
'I would describe that building as creepy. There was very strong order there, a lot of decay,” former Jackson County Sheriff's Detective Julie Denney told Oxygen.
When investigators found a human leg on the property, they brought Monica in for questioning and she told them a disturbing story about putting Haney “out of his misery.”
Monica said she encountered her pigs in a “feeding frenzy” as they feasted on Haney's intestines while his intestines were “everywhere.”
“He was eaten, what I thought was, alive,” Monica told investigators.
'I put him out of his misery. I do that for my animals and this was the first time I did it for a human and I knew it was wrong, but if it was one of my pigs out there suffering, I would have done the same thing,” Monica said.