[1] She garnered public attention after being convicted of murdering two men at her residence in rural Wimer, Oregon.
[2] After serving in the United States Navy during the Vietnam War Monica began an engineering career and, in 1991, purchased a 20-acre farm in rural Wimer, Oregon.
[4] Authorities arrived at Monica's residence on January 10, 2014,[5] after it was discovered she had been using Haney's food stamps card, and confronted her with fraud charges.
[6] Portions of remains from a total of two individuals were discovered; the first belonged to 56-year-old Robert Haney, Monica's handyman, who had gone missing in September 2013.
[4][7] The state of Monica's property was squalid, with significant piles of garbage, animal bones, and no running water or sewage system.
[4] During the trial, an Oregon State Police anthropologist testified that Haney's legs had been dismembered with an axe, and that his thigh bones showed signs of "being gnawed on by an animal".
[4] Another witness who had been in jail with Monica testified that she had received a birthday card from her signed "from the sweetest murderer in Jackson County".