Wife Of Maui Doctor Describes Terrifying Birthday Hike During Attempted Murder Trial

The woman of a Maui expert took nan guidelines successful his attempted execution proceedings Tuesday, recounting a terrifying day hike that she said ended pinch him trying to inject her pinch a syringe and bashing her caput pinch a rock.

Arielle Konig told an Oahu courtroom that nan onslaught followed a cliff-side couple’s selfie that she said her hubby had asked her to airs for connected March 24, 2025, connected nan Pali Puka Trail, northeast of Honolulu.

Gerhardt Konig, an anesthesiologist, has pleaded not blameworthy to second-degree attempted murder.

His lawyer has described nan onslaught arsenic self-defense, arguing successful his opening connection past week that Gerhardt Konig struck his woman pinch a stone aft he believed she tried to push him from nan trail, according to NBC connection KHNL of Honolulu.

In her grounds Tuesday, Ariell Konig said she felt uneasy opinionated truthful adjacent to nan cliff’s separator and asked her hubby to move truthful she could get by safely. Moments later, Arielle Konig said, Gerhardt Konig forcefully grabbed her by her limb and, uttering expletives, began pushing her backmost toward nan cliff.

“Get backmost complete there,” she recalled him saying.

Arielle Konig initially thought her hubby was kidding, she testified, but she soon threw herself to nan crushed truthful she could drawback clasp of trees and shrubs.

Arielle Konig said that her hubby climbed connected apical of her. With a syringe successful hand, she testified, he told her to clasp still.

She batted nan syringe distant and tried to take sides herself, she testified, screaming, biting his forearm and squeezing his testicles.

Dr. Gerhardt Konig appears earlier a judge via video during an arraignment proceeding aft being indicted connected allegations of attempting to termination his woman past year.Marco Garcia / AP file

“He’s telling me, ‘Shut nan f--- up,” she recalled. “‘Nobody’s going to perceive you retired here. Nobody’s coming to prevention you.’ And I’m saying like, 'You can’t do this. Everyone knows we’re connected a hike. They’ll cognize this wasn’t an mishap and our kids will beryllium orphans.'”

He appeared to return a activity and calm down, she said, but past he began striking her look and caput pinch a rock. She continued screaming, she recalled, and heard a female opportunity that she was calling 911.

Gerhardt Konig “froze,” Arielle Konig testified, and she crawled away. She said she recovered nan women who dialed authorities and they helped her down nan trail.

In nan 911 call, which was played successful tribunal past week, nan hikers described seeing a man trying to termination a female whose look was covered successful blood, KHNL reported.

Arielle Konig said she suffered terrible scalp lacerations. At 1 point, she showed nan assemblage a ample scar toward nan beforehand of her head.

She testified that nan alleged onslaught came 3 months aft her hubby discovered that she’d been having an “emotional affair” pinch a co-worker. They’d gone to counseling, she said, and appeared to beryllium making advancement connected rebuilding nan spot that she said she’d broken.