Medford, Ore. — “I can’t bear to watch,” said Susan Monicain the courtroom.
Just 20 minutes into day two of her murder trial, Susan Monica had seen enough of her confessional video with investigators.
With tears running down her face, she brought the court proceedings to a halt.
“I didn’t want my pigs to be shot,” said Monica in her confession video.
Jurors first began watching this interview with investigators Tuesday.
In it, she defends her pet pigs. The same pigs prosecutors said ate Robert Haney and Stephen Delicino on her rural Rogue River property in 2012 and 2013.
“He ways laying there and I was standing here, I went like that. I pulled the trigger,” Monica described in the video.
Attorneys on both sides agree that Monica shot the two handymen in the head, but why is in dispute.
Yesterday, defense attorneys said Delicino’s death was in self defense. But, in the confession video, Monica said he killed himself.
She also said she didn’t know how haney got into the pig pen, where he was eaten alive, and she she put him out of his misery.
“His guts were all over the place. I have no idea how he got there,” said Monica in the video.
But her story changes throughout the interview with detectives.
Two points that never changed: she said her pigs would never harm anyone and that she doesn’t value human life.
Only one person testified Wednesday, that was Detective Eric Henderson, the lead investigator in this case.
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