Dr. Gerhardt Konig, 47, had been charged with second-degree attempted murder. Instead, the jury found him guilty of attempted manslaughter based upon extreme mental or emotional disturbance.
The jurors were instructed to consider the attempted manslaughter charge and various assault charges if they were unable to find him guilty of second-degree attempted murder.
Arielle Konig testified that 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."
She 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.
Arielle Konig 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.
She recalled screaming, "Please help, he's trying to kill me," and that when two women happened upon them, her husband "froze" and she was able to then crawl away.
While testifying in his own defense over two days, Gerhardt Konig maintained 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.
https://abcnews.com/US/hawaii-doctor-trial-verdict-attempted-murder-case/story?id=131841594
Posted by cmaia1503
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Kind of surprised the jurors didn’t go for attempted murder considering he tried to kill her twice and brought a syringe to the hike, which seems to indicate premeditation
Glad she made it out
Reminds me of the “Alpine Divorce” stories a few weeks ago where husbands were abandoning their spouses in The Alps
The hell is wrong with people? Ruining couples hiking together for everyone cause now we gotta talk about this bs
I’m glad he was found guilty – hopefully he will receive the maximum sentence possible. Too many juries do not believe women enough
Fuck these jurors. He tried to kill her. He was intent on killing her. They are so fking stupid I could scream.
Genuinely baffled as to how the jury came to this conclusion instead of attempted murder. The only answer I have is misogyny. You have two witnesses who said they had to rescue her when he was attacking her, his son testified that he called him and said he tried to kill her, and she literally testified to what happened. But she had an emotional affair so his hurt feelings matter more than the fact that she almost died I guess.
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This is so wild
Thatâs insane
Wow
The problem with the manslaughter verdict is that it validates the claim that if your wife is cheating on you, we reduce your charge from murder to manslaughter.
I mean, divorce was also an option, no?
Men should not be allowed to claim that their over the top feelings in these situations justify murder on any level. Or even reduce murder to manslaughter.
Yeah well, make sure you sue him into the ground so even if he gets out he has nothing. I would make it my life’s mission to make sure he never has a life outside of jail.
Thatâs it?!!
Itâs a proven fact that he had a syringe right? So Iâm not understanding how was able to lie on the stand about that. The syringe shows intent to murder.
This is a crazy and unexpected result. In the months before this happened, he was looking up documents from his past divorce and then calculating how much he would have to pay Arielle in a divorce. He looked up hikes before their trip and picked one based on a website that described it to have very dangerous cliff sides. He called his son afterwards, told him she was having an affair, and confessed to him that âhe tried to kill her, but she got away,â not that he acted in self-defense after she attacked him first. HE BROUGHT A SYRINGE ON THEIR HIKE WITH HIM?! âŚ.and they donât think this was premeditated? Absolutely insane verdict here.
Another man commits a heinous crime, gets mental and emotional disturbance as a result, then gets off lightly because of it. Iâm sick of the Twinkie defense.
Glad she’s ok
What garbage jurors. I watched the trial and donât see how they didnât find him guilty of attempted murder. If he gets the max heâll only get 20 years, right? So he can go finish the job then huh? đ
Wtf how is this not attempted murder. It only stopped when bystanders appeared. Then fiend mental instability. POS was trying to kill her.
I wonder if his professional status got him off too
Iâve never understood why attempted crimes get so much less time than completed ones. You tried to kill someone, but they survived, so your sentence shouldnât be as long becauseâŚyou failed?
How to avoid being murdered as a woman: donât get married.