When Susan Kuhnhausen returned home from work one day earlier this month, she encountered an intruder wielding a claw hammer. After a struggle, the 51-year-old nurse fended off her attacker by strangling him with her bare hands.
Neighbors praised the woman for her bravery, and investigators said they believed the dead man ”” Edward Dalton Haffey ”” was burglarizing Kuhnhausen’s home.
But after an investigation, police now say the intruder Kuhnhausen strangled was apparently a hit man hired by her estranged husband ”” Michael James Kuhnhausen Sr. ”” to kill her.
A gun would have been simpler and left less to chance. That said I congratulate her for her pluck in a dangerous situation when many would have simply panicked. On a side note, what kind of hit man uses a hammer?
Or…was she in an affair with Haffey, and he was going to spill the beans costing her a win in a divorce, and she did him in and plonked her own head with the hammer and planted it on him afterwards, then scribbled the incriminating note implicating her husband. Now he is in jail, she wins the divorce, gets the x-rated store all to herself, and still keeps her nursing career. Just sayin.
If Haffey and the nurse were having an affair, he would have known the code, or she would and could have let him in.
If you know you’re going into a fight, bring a shotgun or rifle. Otherwise, bring a pistol.
I’m not to the point of going around the house with a rifle slung over my shoulder and a pistol on my belt. My son usually “carries” when he is out of the house, so he would have been “prepared” for an encounter with a home intruder.
But I do think that a hand-to-hand combat refresher might not be a bad idea.