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News > Kung-Fu Nurse: The Remainder of the Narrative

You may have heard the story of the female nurse who came home, was assaulted by a man wielding a hammer, and managed to survive by choking her assailant to death. But that's not the end of the story:

The estranged husband of a woman who strangled an intruder with her bare hands last week has been accused of hiring the intruder as part of a murder plot, Portland police said. Michael James Kuhnhausen, 58, was charged Thursday with criminal conspiracy to commit murder and attempted murder.

Detectives said he helped disarm the security alarm at his wife's home on Sept. 6 and let Edward Haffey in. Haffey, armed with a claw hammer, then waited for Susan Kuhnhausen to arrive home from her nursing job.

Portland police officer Paul Harvey was quoted as saying, "And now you know... the remainder... of... the narrative."