PORTLAND, OR -- 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.
During Friday's sentencing hearing of Michael Kuhnhausen, Susan Kuhnhausen held up a picture taken of her bruised face after the attack and said, "This is what I would have looked like if I died."
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?'" asked Kuhnhausen.
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.
Originally posted by: Wheezer
My father, the carpenter, always taught me a hammer could be used for self defense, the claw end would work the best," said Kuhnhausen.
Originally posted by: HOWITIS
how the hell does a man with a hammer attack a woman, and then get strangled to death? thats what you get when you hire a crack head i guess. husband deserves life in prison and much unwanted man love
Originally posted by: HOWITIS
how the hell does a man with a hammer attack a woman, and then get strangled to death? thats what you get when you hire a crack head i guess. husband deserves life in prison and much unwanted man love
Originally posted by: Wheezer
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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.
Originally posted by: Sphexi
Originally posted by: Wheezer
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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.
Dang. That is probably the manliest thing I have ever heard, even coming from a non-man. Mad props to her.
I was wondering the same thing...Originally posted by: KK
why would she ask the guy who sent him? Was she expecting getting whacked?
Originally posted by: Eli
I was wondering the same thing...Originally posted by: KK
why would she ask the guy who sent him? Was she expecting getting whacked?
Originally posted by: astroidea
props to her if everything is true, but some parts doesn't fit together.
She clearly stated that the man had began to hit her on the head and face with the hammer, but yet she was still concscious, without bruises, to fight back.
Someone explain or shens.
Originally posted by: pyonir
Originally posted by: Eli
I was wondering the same thing...Originally posted by: KK
why would she ask the guy who sent him? Was she expecting getting whacked?
You guys are crazy. Every time i get attacked that's the first thing i ask...WHO SENT YOU!!? They usually tell me too. It's a flawless plan.
Originally posted by: Mucho
I'd like to see Julia Roberts in this movie.
Her: "Hey big boy. Why don't you let me see that hammer?"Originally posted by: mooglemania85
Originally posted by: Wheezer
My father, the carpenter, always taught me a hammer could be used for self defense, the claw end would work the best," said Kuhnhausen.
Yikes.
Good for her. But how the hell did she ever get the hammer away from her attacker in the first place???