Susan Monica: The Pig Farmer Killer of Oregon
10 Minute Murder | Bingeable True Crime Stories
Joe Kuner
4.8 • 614 Ratings
🗓️ 8 May 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Susan Monica built a life most people wouldn’t sign up for. Alone on 20 acres in rural Oregon, she raised pigs, ran a construction business, and kept mostly to herself. But when a handyman disappeared—and a severed leg turned up in her pond—investigators uncovered a story that kept getting stranger. In this episode, we’re unpacking how a woman who seemed like an eccentric farmer ended up convicted of murder, what really happened on that isolated farm, and why some questions might never get answered.
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| 0:00.0 | You've got a woman living alone on 20 acres of Oregon wilderness. |
| 0:05.2 | She builds her own house, runs a construction company, raises pigs, and somewhere along the |
| 0:10.7 | way a handyman disappears, and a human leg shows up in her pond. |
| 0:15.9 | Today we're talking about Susan Monica, a farmer with a secret, a few too many pigs, and a story that's, well, |
| 0:23.6 | let's just say, not what the neighbor is expected. Before we dive in, if you like your true |
| 0:28.7 | crime brief and bingeable, you're in the right place. Hit follow now for at least two new |
| 0:33.7 | episodes every week. This is 10-minute murder. Let's get into it. |
| 0:52.1 | Susan Monica wasn't exactly what you'd call average. |
| 0:56.2 | Born Stephen Buchanan in California in 1948, she served in the U.S. Navy during the Vietnam War |
| 1:02.8 | as an engineer before deciding to trade military life for pigs. |
| 1:08.5 | Lots and lots of pigs. |
| 1:10.7 | In the 1990s, she bought 20 acres of raw, |
| 1:14.0 | undeveloped land in Weimer, Oregon and set out to build a farm from scratch. |
| 1:19.7 | And farm might be generous. At first, it was just a thick patch of wild Oregon woods |
| 1:24.8 | that had zero business being called anything but a forest. |
| 1:28.6 | But Susan wasn't afraid of a little hard work. |
| 1:31.3 | She built herself a house, then a barn, bought a herd of pigs. |
| 1:35.9 | I don't know if herd is the right word to use for a bunch of pigs, but we're going to go with it. |
| 1:40.1 | She bought a few chickens. |
| 1:41.5 | And because apparently she didn't have enough going on, she also launched |
| 1:44.9 | White Queen Construction, her own company specializing in wrought iron fences and gates. With all of that on |
| 1:52.5 | her plate, it wasn't long before she needed an extra set of hands. She hired 59-year-old Stephen |
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