![]() ![]() As Reduxx previously reported, a man in custody for the brutal murder of his ex-girlfriend had been briefly transferred to the Coffee Creek Women’s Correctional Facility, but was quickly moved back to the male estate just weeks later for unknown reasons. It is unclear how many men claiming a transgender status are currently being held in women’s facilities in Oregon state. “She(sic) told me that if she(sic) told me about the 17 others that she would spend the rest of her(sic) life in jail,” said detective Eric Henderson, referring to Buchanan as a woman.Ī former cellmate of Buchanan’s at the Jackson County jail testified to getting “chills” after receiving a birthday card from Buchanan signed, “from the sweetest murderer in Jackson County.” The lead detective involved with the case told the court that Buchanan had admitted to killing over a dozen victims in a similar manner. Vietnam war and US Navy veteran Susan Monica, born Steven Buchanan, had dismembered the bodies of his victims and fed them to pigs at a 20-acre farm he owned in Wimer, Oregon. Very fair price, easy to work with.” When I spoke to them on a video call, Fair and Johnson had a Patterson-made pig head propped up on the table behind them.A trans-identified male convicted of the grisly murders of two men is serving his 50-year sentence in a women’s correctional facility. “Alex reached out to a guy online, I think from Michigan, named Billy Patterson. that were crazy, outrageous, expensive,” Fair says. On the other hand, the props-especially for the pigs and the remains of their human meals-worked well for the filmmakers. “Lyon and I, we had to mail everything back and forth.” Adds Fair: “We had two computers. “We had two 10-terabyte hard drives,” he says. In 2014, investigators searching Susan Monica's farm discovered the partial remains of two men on the property. In addition, Johnson, who edited the film with Lyon Mitchell, faced unique challenges. Susan Monica was convicted of murdering Robert Haney and Stephen Delicino after their bodies were discovered partially eaten by pigs on her Oregon farm in 2014. This one’s working at the hospital, that one has a gig…tough to coordinate everyone’s schedules.” “When it’s low budget, everyone has other gigs and jobs. “Two girls got pregnant, the pandemic happened,” Fair says (in the film, it’s a low-key plot point that Brittany is pregnant). “We took a week, all hands on deck, got all the hard stuff done.”įair and Johnson acknowledge the logistical difficulties of producing the film on a low budget. “We were planning to shoot in March 2020,” says Johnson, “but then everything started shutting down. Production of Piglady was significantly delayed. This scene introduces Brittany’s friends Tyler (Lazarus Tate) and Marcus (Shyvhan Storm), who come up to the cabin later with their pit bull Hurricane, played by McPeak’s own dog. “My girlfriend at the time was living there,” Fair says. If you’re unfamiliar with the crimes that took place in Wimer, Oregon, let me fill you in: In 2014, Monica was found guilty of murdering two farm hands on her secluded, 20-acre property and feeding them to her pigs. Introducing these travelers is another prologue scene set and filmed in San Diego. Today, Gravitas Ventures released Piglady on digital platforms, a horror slasher inspired by the Susan Monica Murders. ![]() ![]() Caleb only appears in a newscast prologue, after which the timeline shifts back three months to show how Hunter, his girlfriend Brittany (Alicia Karami) and their friends fatefully came to stay at a cabin in Oregon for Christmas. Johnson play two brothers, Hunter and Caleb, whose unseen father is a fictional equivalent to the neighbor mentioned by McPeak. The known facts of the case serve as the foundation for a slasher story in which a fictionalized Monica (Sandra Dee Tryon)-a monstrous figure on whom the camera never keeps focus-prowls the woods, waiting to strike her victims (usually with a machete) and leave them for the pigs to eat. The Jackson County jury found Susan Monica guilty of murdering two men about a year apart, then abusing their corpses by feeding them to the animals at her farm, The Medford Mail Tribune reported. Most of Piglady is set and filmed in Jackson County, in Wimer and Rogue River. We had all the support from the locals, all the stars aligned.” Everyone knew her, everyone had a story about her… introduced us to Susan Monica’s neighbor. You start talking to people, saying you’re making a movie about the pig lady, everyone gets enthused. “A friend from Tennessee moved to Oregon, and every time I’d go up there, he’d tell me the story,” Fair tells WW. This year, Tennessee director, writer and actor Adam Ray Fair transformed Monica’s story into his feature filmmaking debut, the indie horror movie Piglady, which is currently available on demand. ![]() Monica, who also dismembered her victims and fed their bodies to her pigs, all but admitted to the crimes in court-and is currently serving 50 years at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility near Wilsonville. In 2015, pig farmer Susan Monica was convicted of killing two men on her farm outside the community of Wimer in Jackson County, Ore. ![]()
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