Wife of Hawaii doctor takes stand one year after he allegedly tried to kill her

Arielle Konig took the basal connected Tuesday to attest against her husband, anesthesiologist Gerhardt Konig, precisely 1 twelvemonth aft helium allegedly tried to termination her by pushing her disconnected a cliff during a hike.

"I walked up to him, helium grabbed maine truly forcibly by my precocious arms and helium said, 'I'm truthful f****** sick of this s***. Get backmost implicit there.' And helium starts pushing maine backmost towards the cliff," she said during her melodramatic testimony.

Arielle testified Gerhardt attempted to stab her with a syringe and, erstwhile that failed, she said helium repeatedly bashed her caput with a rock.

"He's saying, like, 'You're done. We're done with you. We don't request you anymore. You're done. You're done,'" she said connected the stand. 

Gerhardt, who worked with the Anesthesia Medical Group successful Hawaii and was antecedently an anesthesiologist astatine the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, is charged with 2nd grade attempted murder. 

Prosecutors are accusing the doc of trying to termination Arielle aft she refused to instrumentality a selfie adjacent the borderline of a cliff on the Pali Puka way connected the Hawaii land of Oahu. The mates was connected a travel celebrating Arielle's birthday, according to a petition she filed past twelvemonth requesting a impermanent restraining order.

Arielle filed for divorcement successful May of 2025, according to The Associated Press.

Nurse Sarah Bucksbom witnessed the alleged onslaught and called 911.

"Her look was covered successful blood. Her caput was covered successful — she was conscionable afloat covered successful blood," Buckbom told the court.

Gerhardt's lawyer claimed during opening statements that his wife, a atomic engineer, was the 1 who attacked him aft helium confronted her astir an affair.

"She picks up a stone and hits him successful the look with it, and helium rapidly reacts, quality reaction, grabs the rock, hits her twice, and stops," Thomas Otake argued.

Otake pointed to a telephone Gerhardt made aft the incidental during which helium told his 19-year-old lad that helium was going to termination himself.

"He was calling him to accidental goodbye. He was calling him to archer him helium was sorry. He was calling him to archer him helium wished helium was a amended man," the lawyer said.

The prosecution, connected the different hand, said the telephone was a confession.

"He says, 'I americium not going to marque it back. I tried to termination Arielle, but she got away,'" lawman prosecuting lawyer Joel Garner argued.

It's inactive not wide if Gerhardt oregon his lad volition attest successful the trial. Gerhardt faces up to beingness successful situation if he's convicted.