Woman who strangled hit man to get police commendation

[superconnected]

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - Portland police are giving a woman who killed the hit man hired by her estranged husband an award for "sheer determination."

The man surprised Susan Kuhnhausen in her home in September 2006 and hit her in the head with a claw hammer.

But she wrestled him to the ground and choked him to death.

Michael Kuhnhausen, 58, pleaded guilty in September to conspiring to commit murder. He hired Edward Haffey, 59, whom he had employed as a janitor in an adult bookstore. Haffey had told friends he was going to get $50,000, according to court testimony.

http://www.komotv.com/news/local/13848287.html

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Wow.

[Rex]

1. Good for her, I wish she could kick her ex in the balls, nonstop

for oh...three or four months.

[DS1]

2. Yeah, jizz-moppers make for great hitmen

:eyes:

[whatdoyouthink]

3. Now that's

My kind of women

[RamboLiberal]

4. Mine too - good for her n/t

[salin]

5. how horrific on several levels...

first at one point these two were married - and later he tries to murder her. :cry:

Then this woman not only has to deal with being attacked in her home (traumatic), but also the reality that her once "loved" (?) husband was behind the attack (traumatic - again), and her only way to survive was to choke the life out of another person (first level - survival and relieg -but also, I would think, at times haunting - traumatic).

:cry:

[varkam]

6. The whole thing is a mess.

I feel sorry for everyone involved, though I am glad she was able to defend herself against her attacker. Good for her, I say.