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.
Maybe he ought to ask for more time in prison. He's safer in there.
Yah, my wife is a big girl and strong. She just isn’t aggressive. Hard to teach her because she can’t imagine doing it. I probably should keep at it though.
She could date one of those guys who dug his way out of the mine by only eating rocks & drinking piss. Their kids would take over the world.
That’s funny.
For safety sake I think I would find out what she wished to be called
Last week, I asked my seven year-old daughter if she remembered anything from her second year of Tae Kwon Do.
Without hesitation, she planted a side-kick squarely to my genitals to demonstrate.
I'm working with my kids. Whatever's handy ... heard that back in the 90s a grade-school kid stabbed his would-be abductor in the gut with a lead pencil and they found the perp at the ER. Does an iPod headphone cable make a good garrote?
“the claw end would work the best,”
That’s gonna leave a mark.
“You are correct. According to Miss Manners, a lady always wears white gloves whilst strangling an attacker.”
but was this after Labor day?
“The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.” D.H. Lawrence
Lawrence must have had people like Ms. Kuhnhausen in mind when he came up with that line, lol.
Well, she is available now! ;o)
Just goes to show once again it's so hard to find good help these days. Also, my kind of woman
After what happened to his hit man he may prefer to remain in prison when his dime is up!
emergency room nurse relied on her hospital self-defense training and began to bite, hit and choke Haffey.
Several years back, I had some worthless individual try to rip off my purse. Like white on rice, I pounced on his exposed arm and bit him several times. After he ran off without my purse, I realized I had gotten him good because I tasted blood in my mouth. Gads, I thought, HIV. Who thinks about this in an emergency? Not I and never will if my live is on line.
Luckily I didnt turn up HIV positive. On the other hand, the little twerp was going to be in a lot of hurts because the human bite is a very dirty and infectious bite.
From what I understand, it is cleaner to be bitten by a dog than a human many times over.
I hope my experience helps some folks in the future.
Hitting him with the claw end of the hammer over and over and expecting him to answer the question? Hmmmm.... :)
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