Jurors shown bodycam of doctor’s bloody wife, rock he allegedly used to bash her in cliffside attack

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Graphic assemblage camera video and a bloodstained stone prosecutors accidental was utilized successful a brutal cliffside onslaught were shown to jurors Wednesday arsenic the attempted execution proceedings of Hawaii doc Gerhardt Konig entered a captious caller phase.

An grounds specializer and responding officers testified connected the 4th time of Konig's trial, walking jurors done the country and the contiguous aftermath of the alleged attack, including video showing Arielle Konig bloodied and disoriented.

The video played successful tribunal showed radical helping Arielle, who had humor dripping down her look and a bandage connected her caput aft she was allegedly attacked by her husband. Jurors besides viewed the stone that Gerhardt Konig allegedly utilized to deed his woman successful an effort to unit her disconnected a cliff.

Gerhardt Konig, an anesthesiologist, has pleaded not blameworthy to second-degree attempted execution successful transportation with the March 24, 2025, incidental connected Oahu’s Pali Puka Trail.

DOCTOR’S WIFE TESTIFIES HE BEAT HER WITH ROCK, TRIED TO FORCE HER TOWARD CLIFF EDGE DURING HIKE

Gerhardt Konig successful  a jumpsuit portion    appearing for court.

Hawaii doc Gerhardt Konig appears earlier a justice via video during an arraignment proceeding aft being indicted connected allegations of attempting to termination his wife, April 7, 2025, successful Honolulu. (AP Photo/Marco Garcia)

The grounds followed a melodramatic time successful tribunal Tuesday, erstwhile Arielle Konig told jurors her hubby attacked her during a day hike, tried to propulsion her disconnected a cliff and struck her repeatedly successful the caput with a rock.

"He’s trying to termination me," she testified.

According to her account, her hubby grabbed her and tried to unit her toward the cliff, starring to a conflict connected the ground. During that struggle, she said she saw him holding a syringe, which she knocked away.

She testified that helium past picked up a stone and struck her aggregate times successful the head.

At 1 point, she said helium told her, "Nobody’s coming to prevention you."

She said she fought him off, clung to vegetation to debar going implicit the borderline and was yet capable to flight erstwhile 2 hikers intervened and called 911.

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Gerhardt Konig and his wife

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

On Wednesday, prosecutors began tying that relationship to carnal evidence.

Jurors were shown the stone investigators accidental was utilized successful the onslaught and watched assemblage camera video from responding officers documenting the aftermath astatine the scene.

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Officers described encountering a chaotic situation, with Arielle Konig injured and disoriented arsenic hikers who intervened helped her to safety.

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A photograph  of Gerhardt Konig

Gerhardt Konig is accused of trying to termination his wife. (Honolulu Police Department)

Defense lawyer Thomas Otake has argued the incidental was not an attempted execution but an "unplanned" confrontation that escalated, suggesting the brushwood has been mischaracterized.

He has pointed to strain successful the couple’s relationship, including Arielle Konig’s acknowledgment of an affectional narration with a coworker, and suggested the incidental has been overstated.

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Arielle Konig rejected that assertion during her testimony, telling jurors: "I would telephone it an onslaught versus a scuffle."

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As the lawsuit moves forward, jurors volition beryllium asked to measurement whether the carnal grounds supports prosecutors’ claims of an intentional effort to termination oregon the defense’s statement that the brushwood was a combat that spiraled retired of control.

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Fox News Digital's Michael Dorgan, Julia Bonavita, and the Associated Press contributed to this report. 

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