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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She was married to one of America’s most feared mob bosses, Vito Genovese, but Anna Genovese lived by her own rules inside the heart of the New York Mafia.

Anna built a parallel world in Greenwich Village, creating safe havens for a queer community the city tried to erase, all while navigating a violent marriage inside the Genovese crime family. When she finally broke the Mafia’s code of silence, she didn’t just risk her life, she reshaped the power structure around her.

Anna Genovese broke omertà, lived openly as a bisexual woman in an era that criminalized it, and survived the fallout of exposing one of the most powerful mob figures in American history.

If this episode leaves you wanting more, we highly recommend Mob Queens (2019), hosted by Jessica Bendinger and Michael Seligman. The series was built from newly uncovered letters about Anna and remains the most comprehensive exploration of Anna’s life. A television adaptation is currently in development.

Primary sources for this episode include Five Families by Selwyn Raab, The Valachi Papers by Peter Maas, and King of Crime by Dom Frasca.

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In 2014, the quiet suburb of Waukesha, Wisconsin, was shattered by a crime that defied logic. Two 12-year-old girls lured their best friend into the woods for a birthday game of hide-and-seek only to leave her for dead as a "sacrifice" to a fictional internet character known as Slender Man.

In Episode 96, Brittany Ransom dives deep into the haunting psychology behind Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier. We trace the trail from the dark corners of Creepypasta forums to the chilling police interrogation rooms where the truth finally caught up.

In this episode, Brittany examines:

• The "Folie à Deux": How a shared delusion turned two vulnerable children into attempted killers.

• The Architecture of a Myth: Why the Slender Man resonated so deeply with a generation raised online.

• The Miracle of Resilience: The incredible survival and recovery of Payton "Bella" Leutner, who crawled out of the woods to tell her story.

• Justice vs. Treatment: The controversial legal battle over early-onset Schizophrenia and the girls' journey through the mental health system.

Was this tragedy preventable, or was it a "perfect storm" of mental illness and digital isolation?

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