Posted on 03/25/2025 2:52:03 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A former UPMC doctor and assistant professor at Pitt was arrested after police in Hawaii said he tried to push his wife off a hiking trail and hit her in the head with a rock.
Honolulu police said they arrested Gerhardt Konig after a short chase on foot near Pali Highway on Monday evening. Earlier in the day, police put out a poster with Konig's photo, saying he was wanted for attempted murder at Pali Lookout.
Police said Konig was on Oahu with his wife Monday morning when he tried to push her off a trail and used a rock to hit her in the head. She was taken to the hospital in critical condition, police said, and was able to tell officers it was her 46-year-old husband who attacked her and left her for dead.
In an update Monday evening, Honolulu police said Konig was taken into custody and charges are pending.
The Nuʻuanu Pali Lookout is perched over a thousand feet above the Oahu coastline, offering panoramic views of the Koʻolau cliffs and Windward Coast, according to gohawaii.com.
Konig was a doctor with the Anesthesia Medical Group and has since been suspended pending investigation, CBS affiliate KGMB reported. He was employed by an independent contract and provided medical services to facilities on Maui, the TV station reported.
Before that, the doctor was an anesthesiologist at UPMC and an assistant professor of anesthesiology and bioengineering at Pitt. UPMC said it hasn't employed Konig for more than two years.
KDKA-TV talked to former neighbors and friends who said Konig worked at UPMC until he moved his wife and two small children to Maui to take his dream job.
Ben Brown lived next door to the Konigs in Mt. Lebanon for several years. While he wasn't particularly close with the couple, he says they were friendly and considered them good neighbors. He said he was surprised by the news.
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
some doctor, left her for dead but apparently didnt check her pulse...
Daily Mail has it that he struck her with closed fists in addition to the rock.
And reason given, as opposed to real reason...she didn’t want him to take her picture. (Which might have helped him to show that she was smiling and they were on good terms just before she went flying.)
I asked the computer:
“Someone who graduates at the bottom of their medical school class is still called a Doctor”
Heh.
Yep, the picture/argument story is obvious BS. Guy sounds/acts like a complete dolt, or a Muslim. German surname.
She has a degree in nuclear engineering. You need a real big rock to bash that!
Bet he’s the beneficiary of some cadillac insurance on her.
University of Pittsburg Medical Center.
It’s so cliche, tossing one’s wife off a high place.
I see no “details” anywhere but likely a witness or a trail camera.
Or maybe she fell just far enough to discourage him from venturing down after her and finishing what he started.
He’s a Doctor and he failed to see that she wasn’t dead? Wow, glad he’s not MY doctor.
I disagree. There are several of these cases that have happened here in the US.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/colorado-man-sentenced-life-pushing-wife-death-cliff-n476726
https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/new-jersey-wife-cliff-push/25863/
https://people.com/crime/oregon-man-pleads-guilty-girlfriend-cliff-murder/
Where’s the “h”? C’mon man.
UPMC has taken over much of PA’s health care/hospital facilities. They are everywhere in PA now.
UPMC (University of Pittsburgh Medical Center) is a global healthcare leader headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, operating 40 hospitals and 800 doctors’ offices and outpatient sites in PA, MD, and NY.
Of course, remember the Montana woman who pushed her husband of only eight days off a cliff in Glacier National Park?
Yep. We have some married ‘friends’ that turned out to be in a private sex group. He recently had some health issue, couldn’t perform, so she ‘cheated’ without permission...so now they’re divorcing.
Because it was all good beforehand?
He fell for her, and he wanted her to fall for him, a lot!
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