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The 66-year-old Monica sat quietly as jurors in the Jackson County courtroom reeled off unanimous verdicts on two counts each of murder and abuse of a corpse. She was charged in the shooting death and dismemberment of 59-year-old Stephen Delicino in the summer of 2012 and 56-year-old handyman Robert Haney in September 2013.
Both were fed to her pigs and what was left of their remains was discovered in January 2014 on the 20-acre farm off West Evans Creek Road. Monica never took responsibility for their deaths throughout 18 hours of videotaped interviews and her six-day jury trial, and told investigators she feared her pigs would be killed if she reported the deaths.
"You shot two people and fed them to your pigs," Jackson County Circuit Court Judge Tim Barnack told a quiet Monica, who was prone to outbursts during her trial. "I don't know how else I can put it. You valued pigs more than you value people.
"It may sound harsh, but you are a cold-blooded killer," Barnack said.
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justiceischeap
(14,040 posts)Wonder how longer before there's a Dateline episode of this.
lumberjack_jeff
(33,224 posts)The FBI's criteria for a serial killer is one who kills at least two people in separate acts that are not part of a running crime spree.
Monica could have awaited sentencing but ask for it to be imposed as soon as the jury was dismissed, saying "it doesn't seem to matter."
Monica also addressed Haney's family, sticking to her story that she had discovered a disemboweled Haney inexplicably in her pen being devoured by pigs and near death a month after he disappeared in the fall of 2013.
"I couldn't bring myself to call you simply to say, 'Hey, your father has finally showed up. Come get him out of my pig pen,'" Monica said while seated in court. "I couldn't do it."
justiceischeap
(14,040 posts)Weird.
lumberjack_jeff
(33,224 posts)justiceischeap
(14,040 posts)Title 28 - JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE PART II - DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE CHAPTER 33 - FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION Sec. 540B - Investigation of serial killings
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/28/540B
§540B. Investigation of serial killings
(a) In General.—The Attorney General and the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation may investigate serial killings in violation of the laws of a State or political subdivision, if such investigation is requested by the head of a law enforcement agency with investigative or prosecutorial jurisdiction over the offense.
(b) Definitions.—In this section:
(1) Killing.—The term “killing” means conduct that would constitute an offense under section 1111 of title 18, United States Code, if Federal jurisdiction existed.
(2) Serial killings.—The term “serial killings” means a series of three or more killings, not less than one of which was committed within the United States, having common characteristics such as to suggest the reasonable possibility that the crimes were committed by the same actor or actors.
(3) State.—The term “State” means a State of the United States, the District of Columbia, and any commonwealth, territory, or possession of the United States.
(Added Pub. L. 105–314, title VII, §701(a), Oct. 30, 1998, 112 Stat. 2986.)
Emphasis mine
lumberjack_jeff
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mainer
(12,022 posts)Farmhands are often immigrants. How many have vanished without a trace?
PCIntern
(25,572 posts)I have a pretty strong stomach but when I read the book I thought I was going to be sick. Thomas Harris' descriptions of this stuff are emblazoned forever in my mind...it is in its own way, pornographic.
When I was in college I read a porno/sadistic violence book that someone had left in the student lounge and there were scenes which to this day I cannot get out of my mind if there's a contextual trigger. I can only imagine what real PTSD is like when you witness real horror as opposed to that which we conjure in our heads while reading. When I threw the book out I tore it into a thousand pieces as though that would purge my brain of the visions.
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)That is thoroughly disgusting. Given her age, she'll die in prison.
