陪审团正在商议对一名夏威夷医生的审判被告试图在徒步旅行途中杀死他的妻子。
47岁的Gerhardt Konig博士不服罪二级谋杀未遂。检察官指控麻醉师于2025年3月24日在瓦胡岛的Pali Puka小道上袭击了他的妻子Arielle Konig，将她推到悬崖边，然后用石头多次殴打她。
与此同时，辩方声称Arielle Konig首先袭击了她的丈夫，他出于自卫用石头打了她。
Gerhardt Konig和他的妻子在檀香山为期三周的审判中作证，对徒步旅行中发生的事情提出了这些大相径庭的说法。
检察官乔尔·加纳(Joel Garner)在结案陈词中告诉陪审员，证据确凿无疑地证明，Gerhardt Konig当天打算在充满挑战、狭窄陡峭的Pali Puka小道上将妻子推下悬崖，从而杀死她。
加纳说:“在这条路线上，只需要一次推动。”“一推，就悲剧事故了。”
当这一所谓的计划没有奏效时，加纳辩称，被告随后试图用注射器给她注射，最终用石头袭击她。
加纳说:“被告挥动石头的力度太大，以至于石头碎片掉落到了艾瑞尔的头皮上。”。
检察官声称Gerhardt Konig想出了避免昂贵离婚的计划。
加纳说，Arielle Konig的“直截了当”和“连贯”的证词得到了现场血淋淋的证据，她受伤的“严重性”，数字证据和其他证人的证词的证实——包括在据称的袭击中遇到这对夫妇的两名妇女。
“唯一让他停下来的是被当场抓住，”加纳说。
加纳认为，与此同时，格哈特·柯尼希的证词是“不可思议的”和“充满矛盾的”，被告关于他妻子用石头袭击他的说法“没有道理”。
检察官将Gerhardt Konig淤青的脸和Arielle Konig血迹斑斑的脸的照片放在一起，这是在事件发生后拍摄的。
加纳说:“认为这些伤口是由同一块岩石造成的想法完全令人难以置信。”
加纳还反驳了Gerhardt Konig的证词，即他只打了他的妻子两次，引用了她受伤的程度。
“他打了她一次又一次，一次又一次，他只告诉了你两次，”加纳说。
在结案陈词中，辩护律师托马斯·奥塔克(Thomas Otake)表示，“本案存在合理怀疑”，称其为“他说，她说。”
“他们没有被证据吓倒，”Otake谈到检察官时说。“它显示什么并不重要，他们会把它变得对自己有利。他们提出了一个理论，然后去寻找支持这个理论的事实。”
他辩称被告没有计划杀害他的妻子，并重读了Gerhardt Konig在远足当天写给他妻子的生日贺卡，他在其中写道，“你是我们家庭的核心。”
“如果你打算两小时后杀人，你不会写这样的信，”Otake说。
他对检察官概述的所谓计划提出质疑。
“为什么在这个世界上，如果你带一个注射器使某人失去能力，以便更容易把他们扔下悬崖，为什么注射器会是B计划?这将是A计划，”Otake说。
他还质疑为什么Arielle Konig的证词基本上不带感情色彩，除了当她读她丈夫的生日卡时，并认为她的证词“不可靠”。
“当你开始战斗时，你不能因为一个虚构的故事而情绪化，”Otake说。
如果陪审团无法认定Gerhardt Konig犯有二级谋杀未遂罪，他们将考虑他是否犯有基于极度精神或情绪障碍的过失杀人未遂罪，一级攻击未遂罪，二级攻击罪或三级攻击罪。
在审判过程中，阿里埃勒·科宁证明两人从毛伊岛的家来到瓦胡岛庆祝她的生日。她说，在她的丈夫发现她和一名同事在2024年12月之间的“调情”WhatsApp消息后，他们一直在努力修复他们的婚姻，她说这是一场“情感事件”。
Arielle Konig作证说，在徒步旅行中，她的丈夫将她推向悬崖边缘。她说，当他们在地上扭打时，他把她按在地上，他拿出了一个注射器和药瓶。
她进一步作证说，她的丈夫用石头打了她多达10次，她认为他试图把她打昏，以便把她拖下悬崖。
Arielle Konig作证说，她咬了丈夫的前臂进行反击，并恳求他说，“你不能这样做，”以及“我们的孩子将成为孤儿——你会进监狱，我会死。”
“他在说，‘你完了。我们跟你玩完了。我们不再需要你了。你完了。你完了，”她告诉法庭。
Arielle Konig作证说，她大喊，“他想杀了我，”并大声呼救，两名女性徒步旅行者碰巧遇到了他们。其中一名徒步旅行者告诉911接线员，“有人正在帕利普卡山顶遭到袭击。法庭上播放的电话录音显示:“有一个人想杀她。”。
事件发生后，检察官展示了Arielle Konig血迹斑斑的照片。她作证说，她是从丈夫身边爬走的，剩下的路是在那两个女人的帮助下走下来的。她说她因“严重复杂的头皮裂伤”在医院接受治疗，并向法庭展示了她头皮上的疤痕。
格哈特·柯尼希证明在两天多的时间里，他为自己辩护，坚持说他从未打算伤害他的妻子，当他用石头打她时，他是出于自卫。
他告诉法庭，他的妻子在他们就她的婚外情发生争吵后把他推到了边缘，当他们在地上挣扎时，她先用石头打了他。他承认在她身上用石头打了她，说他打了她两次，但他否认有任何注射器或试图将她拉向悬崖边缘。
Gerhardt Konig作证说，事件发生后，他感到有自杀倾向。
“那时我只是觉得一切都没希望了，”他说。“我对我对她的所作所为感到震惊，我对她的所作所为感到震惊，我对我的妻子——我在这个世界上最爱的人——采取了暴力手段。我也对我们的关系感到绝望。”
事件发生后不久，Gerhardt Konig作证说，他给20岁的前妻所生的儿子Emile Konig打电话道别。
他的儿子在审判期间为FaceTime电话作证。当检察官要求他复述父亲在电话中所说的话时，埃米尔·柯尼希回答说，“他无法回到毛伊岛，也无法照顾好年幼的孩子们，我的继母阿里一直在欺骗他，他试图杀死她。”
“在那个电话中，他说的下一个计划是跳下悬崖，”埃米尔·科宁作证说，并补充说，他的父亲说他“已经到了山穷水尽的地步。”
Gerhardt Konig反驳了他儿子的证词，否认做过任何供认。他告诉法庭，他在电话中说的是，“她说我试图杀了她。”
检察官说，经过一个小时的搜捕，Gerhardt Konig被逮捕。
Arielle Konig于2025年5月申请离婚，寻求对这对夫妇两个年幼孩子的完全监护权。
在毛伊岛担任麻醉师的Gerhardt Konig自被捕以来一直被关在监狱里。在他被捕后，毛伊岛健康中心表示，在调查期间，他在毛伊岛纪念医疗中心的医务人员特权已被暂停。
Jury deliberating in Hawaii trial of doctor accused of trying to kill wife during hike
The jury is deliberating in the trial of a Hawaii doctoraccusedof trying to kill his wife on a hiking trail.
Dr. Gerhardt Konig, 47, haspleaded not guiltyto second-degree attempted murder. Prosecutors allege the anesthesiologist attacked his wife, Arielle Konig, near a cliff while on the Pali Puka Trail on Oahu on March 24, 2025, by pushing her near the edge and then beating her multiple times with a rock.
The defense, meanwhile, has alleged that Arielle Konig attacked her husband first, and that he hit her with the rock in self-defense.
Both Gerhardt Konig and his wife testified during the three-week trial in Honolulu, presenting these widely differing accounts of what happened on the hike.
Prosecutor Joel Garner told jurors in his closing argument that the evidence proves beyond a reasonable doubt that Gerhardt Konig intended to kill his wife that day on the challenging, narrow and steep Pali Puka Trail by pushing her off the cliff.
"One push is all it would take on this trail," Garner said. "One push, and it's a tragic accident."
When that alleged plan didn't work, Garner argued that the defendant then tried to inject her with a syringe before ultimately attacking her with a rock.
"The defendant swung this rock so hard that pieces of rock broke off into Arielle's scalp," Garner said.
The prosecutor alleged that Gerhardt Konig came up with the plan to avoid a costly divorce.
Garner said Arielle Konig's "straightforward" and "coherent" testimony was corroborated by the bloody evidence at the scene, the "severity" of her injuries, digital evidence and the testimony of other witnesses -- including two women who came upon the couple in the midst of the alleged attack.
"The only thing that got him to stop was being caught red-handed," Garner said.
Garner argued that Gerhardt Konig's testimony, meanwhile, was "unbelievable" and "filled with contradictions," and that the defendant's account of his wife attacking him with the rock "doesn't make sense."
The prosecutor juxtaposed photographs of Gerhardt Konig's bruised face with Arielle Konig's bloodied one that were taken in the wake of the incident.
"The idea that these injuries were caused by the same rock -- completely unbelievable," Garner said.
Garner also pushed back against Gerhardt Konig's testimony that he only hit his wife two times, citing the extent of her injuries.
"He hit her again and again and again and again, and he only told you two times," Garner said.
During his closing argument, defense attorney Thomas Otake said there is "reasonable doubt all over this case," referring to it as "he said, she said."
"They're undeterred by the evidence," Otake said of the prosecutors. "It doesn't matter what it shows, they're going to spin it in their favor. They came up with a theory and they went to search for facts to support it."
He argued there was no plan for the defendant to kill his wife and reread the birthday card that Gerhardt Konig wrote to his wife for her birthday the day of the hike -- in which he wrote in part, "You're the heart of our family."
"You don't write a letter like this if you're planning to kill somebody two hours later," Otake said.
He disputed the alleged plan outlined by the prosecutor.
"Why in the world, if you bring a syringe to incapacitate someone to make it easier to throw them off the cliff, why would the syringe be Plan B? It would be Plan A," Otake said.
He also questioned why Arielle Konig's testimony was largely unemotional, save for when she read the birthday card from her husband, and argued that her testimony was "not reliable."
"You cannot get emotional over a made-up story that didn't happen when you started the fight," Otake said.
If the jurors are unable to find Gerhardt Konig guilty of second-degree attempted murder, they will consider whether he is guilty of attempted manslaughter based upon extreme mental or emotional disturbance, first-degree attempted assault, second-degree assault or third-degree assault.
While on the stand during the trial, Arielle Konigtestifiedthat the two had traveled to Oahu from their home in Maui to celebrate her birthday. She said they had been working on repairing their marriage after her husband found what she characterized as "flirty" WhatsApp messages between her and a colleague in December 2024 in what she said was an "emotional affair."
Arielle Konig testified that during the hike, her husband pushed her toward the edge of the cliff. As they wrestled on the ground with him on top, pinning her down, he produced a syringe and vial, she said.
She further testified that her husband proceeded to beat her with a rock as many as 10 times, and that she believed he was trying to knock her unconscious in order to drag her over the edge of the cliff.
Arielle Konig testified that she fought back by biting her husband's forearm and pleaded with him, saying, "You can't do it," and that "our kids will be orphans -- you'll go to jail and I'll be dead."
"He's saying, 'You're done. We're done with you. We don't need you anymore. You're done. You're done,'" she told the court.
Arielle Konig testified that she yelled, "He's trying to kill me," and screamed for help, and two female hikers happened upon them. One of the hikers told a 911 operator, "Someone's currently being attacked on the top of Pali Puka. There's a man trying to kill her," according to audio of the call played in court.
Prosecutors showed photos of Arielle Konig's bloodied face following the incident. She testified that she crawled away from her husband and was helped down the rest of the trail by the two women. She said she was treated at a hospital for "severe complex scalp lacerations" and showed the court scarring on her scalp.
Gerhardt Konigtestifiedin his own defense over two days, maintaining that he never intended to hurt his wife and acted in self-defense when he struck her with the rock.
He told the court that his wife pushed him near the edge after they got into an argument about her affair, and that she hit him with a rock first while they struggled on the ground. He admitted to hitting her with the rock while on top of her, saying he struck her twice, though he denied having any syringes or trying to pull her toward the cliff's edge.
Gerhardt Konig testified that he felt suicidal after the incident.
"I just felt hopeless at that point in terms of everything," he said. "I felt horrified about what I did to her, that I had caused this to her, that I had resorted to violence against my wife, the person who I love the most in the world. And I just kind of felt hopeless in terms of our relationship, too."
Shortly after the incident, Gerhardt Konig testified, he made a FaceTime call to his 20-year-old son from his prior marriage, Emile Konig, to say goodbye.
His son testified about the FaceTime call during the trial. Asked by the prosecutor to recount what his father said during the call, Emile Konig responded, "That he would not be making it back to Maui and to take good care of the younger kids, and that Ari, my stepmom, had been cheating on him, and that he tried to kill her."
"During that call, the next plan that he said was to jump off the cliff," Emile Konig testified, adding that his father said he was "at the end of his rope."
Gerhardt Konig pushed back against his son's testimony and denied making any confession. He told the court that what he said during the call was, "She said I tried to kill her."
Gerhardt Konig was arrested following an hourslong manhunt, prosecutors said.
Arielle Konig filed for divorce in May 2025, seeking full custody of the couple's two young children.
Gerhardt Konig, who worked as an anesthesiologist on Maui, has been in jail since his arrest. Following his arrest, Maui Health said his medical staff privileges at Maui Memorial Medical Center have been suspended pending investigation.
