Mike Kuhnhausen promised Edward Dalton Haffey $50,000 to murder his estranged wife, but neither expected Susan to strangle Haffey to death instead.

On Sept. 6, 2006, Susan Kuhnhausen returned to her Portland home after a shift as an emergency room nurse to find a strange man in her bedroom. Around 15 minutes later, her neighbor called 911.

“She struck him, and she strangled him, and she thinks he’s dead,” Kuhnhausen’s neighbor related to the dispatcher on the other end of the line. The police arrived to find that Kuhnhausen had indeed killed the intruder, Edward Dalton Haffey. But why had he been in her house?

As the investigation continued, officers began to unravel a disturbing scheme. In Haffey’s backpack was an envelope with the phone number of Susan Kuhnhausen’s husband, Mike Kuhnh

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