A woman on trial for murder admitted in a recorded interview with police that she had shot two men and fed their bodies to her pigs , the jury heard on Tuesday . Susan Monica , a 66-year-old pig farmer and welder from southern Oregon , went on trial on Tuesday in Medford . She has been charged with killing two handymen living on her 20-acre pig ranch in a small Jackson County community and dismembering the bodies . Accused serial killer Susan Monica interrupts court in Medford , Oregon on Tuesday on the opening day of her trial for allegedly murdering two men , dismembering their bodies and feeding them to her pigs . Susan Monica , pictured left in court in January 2014 , and right in an undated mugshot , has been accused of killing Robert Haney and Stephen Delicino a year apart at her pig farm and dismembering their bodies . Both victims were shot in the head and dismembered in what prosecutors allege were separate murders committed more than a year apart . Monica appeared in court dressed in skirt , blouse and short wig . In opening statements , defense lawyer Garren Pedemonte said Monica shot the first victim in self-defense , and the second as a kind of mercy killing . Stephen Frank Delicino , 59 , was shot by Monica in self-defense in summer 2012 . The defendant has claimed that she shot the second man , 56-year-old Robert Harry Haney , to put him out of his misery because she found her pigs already feeding on him , The Mail Tribune reported . The second killing took place in September 2013 . Police searched her pig ranch last year after Monica was discovered using a food stamps card belonging to Haney , and found remains of the two men . Remains of two handymen who had been living on Monica 's 20-acre pig ranch ( pictured ) in Jackson County , Oregon were found in 2014 after she was caught using one victim 's food stamps card .
Susan ##ey , from southern Oregon , allegedly killed two handymen living on her pig ranch . Defense attorney Garren Pedemonte said she shot the first victim in self - defense and the second as a result of mercy killing . prosecutors said she shot Robert ##nie Haney , 56 , to put him out of his misery because she had her pigs already feeding on him .