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