Pig Farm Murders

Small Town Murder episode 589 concerns Wimer, Oregon, a tiny community of 441 people in Jackson County, in the south-west of the state, about four hours and ten minutes from Portland. James Pietragallo describes it as a damp, rural place of large properties, mobile homes and Sasquatch lore, with a violent crime rate about half the national average and a property crime rate about a quarter below it. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it She worked successfully as an engineer before buying twenty acres of undeveloped woodland in Wimer in 1991 for $35,000, clearing trees, erecting a large barn and building a house, and running a wrought-iron fence and gate business called White Queen Construction alongside pigs and chickens.

this part of the story is covered for now She lost patches of hair to stress, stopped bathing or showering for roughly two years, and withdrew from people. In the summer of 2012 she killed a handyman named Stephen Delicino, a 59-year-old former Seventh-day Adventist who had lived for more than a decade in an Airstream trailer on property belonging to George and Beverly Guerrero about five miles up the road. Delicino had had brain surgery for a tumour, had epilepsy, and drank heavily, sometimes nearly a case of beer a day. After George Guerrero died and was buried by his wife in her vegetable garden, Delicino began stealing from neighbours to buy beer. details of the account remain covered until revealed When he announced he was going to Florida, she picked him up walking along the road, gave him $100, and then asked where he had sold her rifle. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it In the struggle she fired a small Derringer, which she said only grazed his scalp, then got hold of a rifle in the barn and shot him several times. She told police she thought he was dead after the first shot; he held on to her leg in a death grip and she dragged him a few feet before escaping and barricading herself in a room. When she returned the pigs were licking him. The next day she used a backhoe to dig a grave beside the fence, lifted him over in the bucket and buried him.

this part of the story is covered for now Robert Harry Haney, born in 1957, answered. Haney was a wandering handyman and carpenter who liked solitude and drink; he lived first in the barn and then in a camper trailer on the property. details of the account remain covered until revealed He told a fellow worker, Michael Bales, every day that he hoped his children got his belongings because she was going to kill him. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it

Haney was killed in early September 2013. His family did not hear from him, and on 1 January 2014 his sons drove to the farm. this part of the story is covered for now They found his leather jacket, tools and dog still there, but no wallet, and filed a missing persons report with the Jackson County Sheriff's Office. Investigators found that his Oregon Trail EBT card had been used in December at a Walmart in Grants Pass, about 25 minutes away. details of the account remain covered until revealed During a conversation at the farm she volunteered, unprompted, that she was trying to get a government grant to research how pigs consume human bodies, and said she had threatened to kill people and feed them to her pigs. On 10 January 2014 police obtained a warrant and searched the property, a debris-strewn twenty acres of junk piles, burn piles, animal enclosures and shacks. While filming the search they found a human leg, severed mid-femur, in a catchment pond near the house.

the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it She then said that about a month after he disappeared she found him in the pig pen, half eaten, with his intestines out and still moaning. She went to the house, fetched a .22 rifle and shot him in the head, she said, to put him out of his misery. She did not call 911 because she did not want her pigs shot. She said she left him there, and a few days later, when most of him was gone, collected the clothes and the remaining parts, including a skull and an arm, and put them in plastic bags in the barn; a wild animal, she suggested, must have dragged the leg to the pond. this part of the story is covered for now Asked if she valued human life, she said she did not value it very much and that the only thing wrong with the planet was that there were people on it.

Before taking a polygraph she said she had more to tell them, and described killing Delicino. She drew a map of the property and marked an X where Steve would be found. She also said there were seventeen other bodies buried on the farm, and that she got anxious when someone was in her way and killed them, though she was not the sort to carry out a mass shooting. A second search found Haney's remains in bags and in the burn barrel exactly where she said, and Delicino buried where she had marked. More than fifty holes were dug and no other bodies were found. The pigs were euthanised.

details of the account remain covered until revealed the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it A forensic anthropologist testified that Haney's legs had been chopped off with an axe and showed gnaw marks; Delicino had three or four gunshot wounds to the head. The defence motion to suppress evidence from the first warrant was denied. this part of the story is covered for now details of the account remain covered until revealed the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it

this part of the story is covered for now details of the account remain covered until revealed She is held at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility near Wilsonville. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it A Tennessee film-maker, Adam Ray Fair, turned the story into an indie horror film called Pig Lady, shot in Jackson County.