[MIX] Susan Monica was born Steven Buchanan in 1948. Buchanan served in the United States Navy during the Vietnam War. After being honorably discharged, Steven Buchanan began living as a woman — Susan Monica."She got into an engineering career and was very successful," former Jackson County Sheriff’s Detective Eric Henderson said on "Snapped."
Monica bought a 20-acre farm in Wimer, Oregon in 1991. She raised pigs and chickens on the farm.
In 2013, she hired Robert Haney to help her out around the farm. "He was her handyman, laborer, carpenter. Whatever she asked of him, he did," said her former employee Sean Leimanis.
Jesse Haney, Robert’s son said, "My dad and Susan Monica had a deal. My dad would get part cash and be able to stay on the property. My dad agreed to build a house from the bottom up."
Jesse said that his father enjoyed the peace and quiet of living out in a rural area, but in December of 2013, his family began to get worried.
"We hadn’t seen or heard from my dad for two months. We just all started to panic," Jesse explained.
On January 1, 2014, Jesse and his siblings went to Monica’s farm to look for their father.
She claimed that he had quit four months before, and that she had not seen him since.
"Susan Monica said that my dad just basically left. She wanted us to come retrieve our dad’s stuff," Jesse recalled.
When Jesse and his siblings saw their father’s trailer, however, they knew something was wrong.
"His leather jacket was there. His dog was still running around and all his tools were there," Jesse said. "It made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up."