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.
Nope. Not the stairway.
I’m guessing amphetamine-induced psychosis
I am thinking he got nervous that other people were coming. The Doc didn’t realize where the term dead weight came from. Trying to get her over the cliff may have put him in danger.
OMG, that is horrible I’m so sorry you lost your best friend like that.
-Doctor Allegedly Tried to Throw Wife Off Hawaii Cliff Because She Didn’t Want to Take Picture with Him-
Well that certainly cleared things up.
Dude is an anesthesiologist and was too stupid to figure out how to kill someone? Hit her with two syringes and they didn’t have anything that worked? Obviously doesn’t know his dosages. They don’t make Germans like they used to.
Interesting tidbit. His name is Gerhardt Konig, wife is Arielle Konig, and the Daily Mail reporter on the story is Melissa Koenig. She obviously hasn’t Anglicized her name.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14536699/Gerhardt-Konig-doctor-pushed-wife-Hawaii-Arielle.html
Well, I guess she wasn’t obese, if that is her, and that is why you posted the picture. 🙂👍
The wife was standing on the edge of the trail, staring at her husband, asking herself why their wonderful marriage had reached such a rocky patch. And then it hit her.
He’s an anesthesiologist, he was just putting her to sleep.
Of course, the fact that he was carrying a couple of syringes mitigates in favor of premeditation. He may have wanted one of those risky-looking pictures, planning to push her over, and claim it was accidental, and some sedation was the backup plan. Overall, it kinda sounds like he has some issues.
You just slip out the back, Jack
Make a new plan, Stan
You don't need to be coy, Roy
Just get yourself free
Just push her off the cliff, Biff...
Good ones.
Thanks to the wonderful reporting by CBS, we can almost know what might have happened. Good grief. Not only does the MSM fail to report the news anymore, it appears that they lack the ability to do so.
Correct on all points.
[snip] Konig was previously married to sex worker Jessica Patella; The two married when they we both just 20 and stayed married for over 15 years, sharing two children.
One of their children, a trans man who goes by Kieren, shared details from his difficult childhood in an essay published online and written in second person.
‘You don’t remember much of your childhood except for that one Christmas morning your brother came into your room and you hid under the covers for an hour, waiting for your parents to stop fighting. They got a divorce the next year.
Kieren wrote about being admitted to psychiatrist hospitals and seeing his mother ‘losing blood like trees lose leaves in the fall’ as she went through two miscarriages. [/snip]
Well, I just didn’t think of that possibility.
“Consider it a divorce!”
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