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Oregon woman kills hitman hired by her husband
NBC Channel 3 ^ | 9/10/07

Posted on 09/10/2007 11:38:34 AM PDT by Mr. Brightside

Oregon woman kills hitman hired by her husband

Sep 10, 2007 01:50 PM EDT

PORTLAND, Ore. (NEWSCHANNEL) -- An Oregon man was sentenced to 10 years in prison Friday after hiring another man to kill his wife.

Susan Kuhnhausen fought off the hit man and actually strangled the attacker with her bare hands killing him.

In September 2006, Susan found an intruder in her southeast Portland home.

"I saw a man step out of the shadows and he began to hit me in the head and the face with a hammer," said Kuhnhausen.

For the first time publicly, she described how, fearing for her life, she fought back.

"I got the hammer and started hitting him with the hammer several times. My father, the carpenter, always taught me a hammer could be used for self defense -- the claw end would work the best," said Kuhnhausen.

The attacker was Ed Haffey, a drug addict who it turned out was hired by Michael Kuhnhausen to kill Susan.

"I yelled: 'who sent you here? Yelled again, 'who sent you here?'" Kuhnhausen said in court.

The plan failed as the emergency room nurse relied on her hospital self-defense training and began to bite, hit and choke Haffey.

"He turned blue as I told him you're not going to kill me." said Kuhnhausen.

Instead, she killed Haffey.

Police later found notes in Haffey's backpack linking him to Michael Kuhnhausen.

Susan called it a cowardly plan.

"If I ever believed you deserved to be dead, I would at least have had the balls to kill you myself," declared Kuhnhausen.

"I hurt a lot of people over the last year and I'm sorry. That's all I can say, I'm sorry," said Michael Kuhnhausen.

After laughing at that statement, Susan Kuhnhausen began to cry.

She was grateful her former husband apologized but she was also happy to know he too is suffering.

Michael Kuhnhausen pled guilty to soliciting to commit aggravated murder last month and was sentenced to 10 years in prison.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Oregon
KEYWORDS: crime; edwardhaffey; michaelkuhnhausen; oregon; portland; selfdefense; susankuhnhausen; susanwalters
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1 posted on 09/10/2007 11:38:35 AM PDT by Mr. Brightside
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To: Mr. Brightside

Wow. That there be a woman.


2 posted on 09/10/2007 11:40:25 AM PDT by Hegewisch Dupa
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To: Mr. Brightside

That’s one tough lady.


3 posted on 09/10/2007 11:41:07 AM PDT by skr (Car bombs and IEDs are the exclamation marks for the latest Democrats' talking points.)
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To: Mr. Brightside

You gotta love a happy ending...


4 posted on 09/10/2007 11:41:11 AM PDT by Triggerhippie (Always use a silencer in a crowd. Loud noises offend people.)
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To: Mr. Brightside
"If I ever believed you deserved to be dead, I would at least have had the balls to kill you myself," declared Kuhnhausen.

Looks like it from here.

You go, girl.

5 posted on 09/10/2007 11:42:43 AM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: skr
My father, the carpenter, always taught me a hammer could be used for self defense -- the claw end would work the best

lol

Take no prisoners.

6 posted on 09/10/2007 11:43:06 AM PDT by Mr. Brightside
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To: Mr. Brightside

He only got 10 years?


7 posted on 09/10/2007 11:43:13 AM PDT by Brilliant
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To: Mr. Brightside

Hitman, the jokes just write themselves...

Anyone that has swung a framing hammer knows that it can be used for de-construction too!


8 posted on 09/10/2007 11:43:19 AM PDT by MD_Willington_1976
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To: Mr. Brightside

— “If I ever believed you deserved to be dead, I would at least have had the balls to kill you myself,” declared Kuhnhausen.”

Paris Hilton or Mrs. Kuhnheusen? The second is the real woman!

A real woman deserves a real man! Of course don’t give her any lip about taking out the trash.


9 posted on 09/10/2007 11:44:05 AM PDT by live+let_live
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I was thinking “one tough broad”. I don’t think you’re allowed to call someone who strangled someone to death with their bare hands “a lady”. I could be wrong.


10 posted on 09/10/2007 11:44:06 AM PDT by rednesss (Fred Thompson - 2008)
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To: Mr. Brightside
"Susan Kuhnhausen fought off the hit man and actually strangled the attacker with her bare hands killing him."

I'm guessing this was a union hit man.

11 posted on 09/10/2007 11:44:24 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: Mr. Brightside
The best quote of the story:

"If I ever believed you deserved to be dead, I would at least have had the balls to kill you myself," declared Kuhnhausen.

12 posted on 09/10/2007 11:45:23 AM PDT by rednesss (Fred Thompson - 2008)
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Kudos to her.


13 posted on 09/10/2007 11:45:29 AM PDT by Jedi Master Pikachu ( What is your take on Acts 15:20 (abstaining from blood) about eating meat? Could you freepmail?)
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To: Mr. Brightside

Wow! Don’t mess with that lady!


14 posted on 09/10/2007 11:45:44 AM PDT by caver (Yes, I did crawl out of a hole in the ground.)
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"I yelled: 'who sent you here? Yelled again, 'who sent you here?'" Kuhnhausen said in court.

So she thought someone might be sending someone to kill her? Seriously, the only time I have ever heard someone asking a question like that is in a movie.
15 posted on 09/10/2007 11:45:52 AM PDT by NorthFlaRebel
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"If I ever believed you deserved to be dead, I would at least have had the balls to kill you myself," declared Kuhnhausen.

This woman is my hero! LOL

16 posted on 09/10/2007 11:46:13 AM PDT by Millee (Tagline free since 10/20/06)
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To: Mr. Brightside

This woman has more courage than the entire dhimmicrat party. You go, girl!! I could only wish that she confront Ted Kennedy and John Kerry. I’m sure she could win a two on one match...since she’s the only with cojones.


17 posted on 09/10/2007 11:46:22 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Mr. Brightside
Michael Kuhnhausen pled guilty to soliciting to commit aggravated murder last month and was sentenced to 10 years in prison.

They must have liberal laws in Oregon. In many places, he could have been convicted of murder in the death of the hit man.

18 posted on 09/10/2007 11:46:57 AM PDT by PAR35
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To: rednesss

We all know that a lady can have “man hands”.


19 posted on 09/10/2007 11:47:05 AM PDT by A_Tradition_Continues (THE NEXT GENERATION CONSERVATIVE)
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To: Mr. Brightside

The husband and the perp should have watched “Dial M for Murder” more closely.


20 posted on 09/10/2007 11:47:29 AM PDT by Cecily
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