In 2006, Susan Kuhnhausen came home after a long shift as an emergency room nurse and walked straight into a violent ambush inside her own home.
A man was waiting for her with a hammer. He had a job to do and she was the target.
What he didn’t know was that Susan wasn’t just a victim. She was a veteran ER nurse trained to assess crisis in seconds, make decisions under pressure, and survive moments most people never prepare for.
By the end of the night, the intruder, Ed Haffey, was dead.
And what initially looked like a random home invasion quickly unraveled into something far more disturbing: a murder-for-hire plot allegedly tied to Susan’s husband, Mike Kuhnhausen.
This episode of When Killers Get Caught breaks down:
The brutal home invasion and fight for survival
The forensic investigation that revealed intent, not randomness
The financial and personal paper trail behind the attack
And the rare true crime outcome where the intended victim survived and fought back
This is not just a story about violence.
It’s a story about instinct, survival, and what happens when a carefully planned murder collapses in real time.
Because sometimes the person chosen to die… refuses.
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