Doctor’s wife testifies he beat her with rock, tried to force her toward cliff edge during hike

A Hawaii doctor’s woman testified Tuesday that helium bushed her with a stone and tried to propulsion her implicit a cliff during a day hike, telling jurors she feared she would die.

''He's trying to termination me,'' Arielle Konig testified she screamed during the alleged attack, according to ABC News.

Konig testified against her husband, anesthesiologist Gerhardt Konig, who is accused of attempting to termination her during the March 24, 2025, incidental connected Oahu’s Pali Puka Trail.

He has pleaded not blameworthy to second-degree attempted murder.

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A divided representation shows the Pali Puka hiking way connected Oahu, Hawaii, and Gerhardt Konig, who is accused of attacking his woman during a hike. (iStock; Honolulu Police Department)

Arielle Konig told jurors the mates had traveled from Maui to observe her day and enactment connected their matrimony aft what she described arsenic "flirty" messages with a colleague.

She said the hike turned convulsive erstwhile her hubby abruptly grabbed her by the arms and began forcing her toward the cliff’s edge.

''I'm truthful f------ sick of this s---,'' Arielle Konig testified helium said arsenic helium pushed her, per the outlet.

Arielle Konig testified she threw herself to the crushed and held onto adjacent vegetation arsenic her hubby tried to determination her person to the edge.

She said she past saw him holding a syringe and moving to usage it.

''Hold still,'' helium allegedly told her, she testified, adding that she knocked it away.

She told jurors her hubby past picked up a stone and began repeatedly striking her successful the head.

''I conscionable started screaming, due to the fact that successful my mind, he's trying to sound maine unconscious, to beryllium capable to resistance maine implicit the edge,'' she told jurors.

Hawaii doc Gerhardt Konig appears earlier a justice via video during an arraignment proceeding successful April 2025 successful Honolulu.  (AP Photo/Marco Garcia)

She said she continued yelling for help, telling the tribunal she believed she was warring for her life.

Two hikers yet came upon the country and called 911.

''There's a antheral trying to termination her,'' a caller said, according to audio antecedently played successful court.

Arielle Konig testified that her hubby stopped erstwhile the hikers appeared, allowing her to crawl to information earlier helium fled the area.

Gerhardt Konig past fled the country connected foot, sparking a manhunt earlier constabulary arrested him aboriginal that evening, according to the Honolulu Police Department.

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She testified her hubby struck her arsenic galore arsenic 10 times with the stone and said she did not suffer consciousness.

She was aboriginal hospitalized with terrible scalp lacerations and showed jurors scarring connected her head.

Defense attorneys pushed backmost connected that relationship during cross-examination, with defence lawyer Thomas Otake questioning Arielle Konig astir what some sides described arsenic an "emotional affair," suggesting the incidental stemmed from a confrontation betwixt the couple, according to ABC News.

Gerhardt Konig is charged with attempted second-degree execution aft helium allegedly tried to termination his woman portion hiking successful Hawaii.  (Gerhardt Konig/Facebook)

Otake argued the brushwood was an ''unplanned, unanticipated scuffle,'' not an attempted murder, and suggested Arielle Konig deed him with the stone archetypal during an statement implicit what some sides described arsenic an "emotional affair," according to ABC News.

Arielle Konig disputed that characterization during her testimony.

''I would telephone it an onslaught versus a scuffle,'' she told jurors, according to ABC News.

Arielle Konig moved to extremity the matrimony successful May 2025, filing for divorcement and seeking sole custody of the couple’s 2 young children.

Her hubby has remained successful custody since his arrest, and a justice past period rejected his bid to person the indictment thrown out.

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Konig has been suspended from his enactment arsenic an autarkic contractor astatine Maui Memorial Medical Center, according to a Maui Health representative.

Fox News’ Julia Bonavita and The Associated Press contributed to this report.