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.
I wonder what their wedding song was?
Now I’m all misty. I love a happy ending.
“The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.” D.H. Lawrence.
Did an American guy he made a pass at try to beat him up? I wouldn’t trust Lawrence’s judgement on anything . . .
of course :-)
Thank you Gatun! You did all of us purse carriers a good deed.
Niiiiiiiiice!
LOL
And it would get reported...
All over the laaaaaand!
And if the guy paid up front, he’ll probably never get a refund now.
We need to register claw hammers.
Yeah. Sad, isn’t it?
“If I was a hammer
I’d hammer in the morning
I’d hammer in the evening
All over the land.”
“DAYEM!!
And she didn’t even use a gun!”
Good thing too, or else she would more than likely be in the cell next to her husband...
Thank you, Marie2.
I did all these things without stopping to think.
The time and cost to replace my driver’s license, “a” credit card, and a required Panamanian ID under Panamanian law would take at least 2 months. No way.
But this was secondary. Nobody, but nobody is going to rob my person without good death to finish fight.
In FLorida, he might have been charged with murder (for the death of the hitman).
Priceless...
She had a lot of motivation.
This is Oregon, you can kill a spouse and get off with counseling, sometimes. In fact, since this is Oregon, there was actually an investigation to see if they could charge her with something for killing her hitman.
Blue state justice only comes from vigilantes.
It must have been a liberal hitman as he was so wimpy he couldn’t get the best of an old woman. The guy’s beady eyes indicate he is a democrat.
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