Verdict reached in trial of Maui doctor accused of trying to kill wife during birthday hike - BERITAJA

A assemblage connected Wednesday reached a verdict successful the attempted execution proceedings of a Hawaii expert charged pinch trying to termination his woman during a day hike connected Oahu past year.

The verdict, which is expected to beryllium delivered soon successful unfastened court, capped a about three-week proceedings during which Dr. Gerhardt Konig and Arielle Konig offered sharply contrasting accounts of the events of March 24, 2025 — her birthday.

The Honolulu County assemblage deliberated for much than 8 hours.

In his closing argument, charismatic Joel Garner said Gerhardt Konig was "obsessed" pinch his wife's affectional matter pinch a co-worker erstwhile he tried to shove her from a cliff connected the Pali Puka Trail, northeast of Honolulu.

When that failed, Garner said, he tried to stab her pinch a syringe and bashed her caput pinch a rock. The alleged onslaught ended erstwhile 2 hikers came upon the scene, he said.

“The only point that sewage him to extremity was being caught red-handed,” Garner said.

Gerhardt Konig’s attorney, Thomas Otake, described the allegations arsenic “she said, he said” and a “theory successful hunt of facts.” On the stand, Gerhardt Konig denied trying to push Arielle Konig aliases inject her pinch a syringe and said he acted successful self-defense, striking her pinch a stone aft she tried to push him from the trail.

“He had a reflex,” Otake said successful his closing argument. “He reacted, and past he felt horrible about it.”

Dr. Gerhardt Konig and his wife, Arielle Konig.Courtesy photo

The alleged onslaught occurred 3 months aft Gerhardt Konig discovered his woman had been having the affectional affair. They’d gone to counseling, Arielle Konig testified, and appeared to beryllium mending the harm she said she’d caused to their relationship.

Gerhardt Konig testified that he was “devastated” by the affair. He accused his woman of minimizing the breach and refusing to return accountability for it.

The hubby and wife, who joined successful 2018, each testified about what happened during the hike.

Arielle Konig said the incident occurred aft her hubby asked her to airs for a cliffside selfie. She became tense about the photo’s location, she said, and erstwhile she tried to move past him, he grabbed her by the limb and pushed her back.

Arielle Konig testifies this month.KHNL

A struggle ensued, Arielle Konig said, and her hubby — an anesthesiologist — came astatine her pinch a syringe and told her to clasp still.

She batted it away, she said, and aft he concisely appeared to calm down, he began bashing her caput pinch a rock.

“‘Nobody’s going to perceive you retired here,’” she recalled him saying. "'Nobody’s coming to prevention you.’"

Other hikers connected the way called 911 and said they saw a man trying to termination a woman, according to audio of the telephone presented successful court. Police assemblage camera video played during the proceedings showed the women assisting Arielle Konig, whose look was covered successful blood.

Two witnesses who had called 911 thief Arielle Konig aft they heard her shriek successful bodycam video from a responding serviceman connected March 24, 2025.via KHNL

An emergency expert who tended to Arielle Konig testified that she sustained a skull laceration that reached the bone. Pieces of stone were embedded successful the wound, he said.

The suspect took the guidelines for 2 days, telling the assemblage that the altercation happened aft he and his woman had an statement about the co-worker pinch whom she had the affair.

Arielle Konig tried to push him from the cliff, Gerhardt Konig said. She pulled him to the ground, grabbing his testicles and striking him difficult successful the look pinch a rock, he testified.

The assemblage was shown images of injuries that Gerhardt Konig sustained during the incident.via KHNL

Gerhardt Konig said he wrestled the stone distant from his woman and deed her pinch it twice.

A pathologist who testified for the defense described Arielle Konig’s coiled arsenic a “soft-tissue injury” that did not origin a bony fracture aliases bleeding about the brain. “This is not a life-threatening injury,” said the pathologist, Dr. Jonathan Arden.

Gerhardt Konig denied trying to inject her pinch a syringe and said that while he felt horrible about what he did, he'd acted successful self-defense.

Afterward, he called his son and said he planned to return his ain life. During the call, Emile Konig testified, his begetter told him that his woman was cheating connected him and that he'd tried to termination her.

Emile Konig, 20, took the guidelines successful his father's attempted execution trial.via KHNL

Gerhardt Konig disputed portion of that declare successful his testimony, saying the connection "kill" whitethorn person been utilized but that he didn't mean it arsenic a confession.

Gerhardt Konig was arrested about 8 hours later, Garner said, after authorities launched a manhunt. Gerhardt Konig testified that he decided to move himself in.