Survival of Susan Kuhnhausen

In this episode, we examine the harrowing survival story of Susan Kuhnhausen, an emergency room nurse from Portland, Oregon, who returned home one night in 2006 to find a hired hitman waiting inside her house.

What followed was a life or death struggle that would ultimately expose a calculated murder-for-hire plot orchestrated by her estranged husband, Eric Kuhnhausen.

Listener discretion advised: This episode contains discussion of violence and attempted murder.

Sources:

I Survived: Season 5 Episode 2

Morbid Podcast Episode 84

https://www.wweek.com/news/2016/08/17/a-hit-man-came-to-kill-susan-kuhnhausen-she-survived-he-didnt/

https://hospitalwatchdog.org/er-nurse-kills-attacker-while-defending-herself/

https://www.wweek.com/news/2016/08/17/a-hit-man-came-to-kill-susan-kuhnhausen-she-survived-he-didnt/

https://theretrobliss.medium.com/brave-nurse-fatally-strangles-hitman-to-survive-1b6d02290cc6