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.
Well, that’s a marriage that’s on the rocks. They may not bounce back from this stumbling block.
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, or what?
Must have been a impulsive act of violence. The doctor put no thought into the murder at all. The story is sketch but I assume the wife survived and turned him in. Was there a trail cam?
Need more details! Did she survive a thousand foot fall?
Someone is always surprised.
It shows that you don't really know people. We've lived next door to the same people for over 20 years, and I would be really surprised if Randy bashed Kelly with a rock and tried to push her off a cliff.
She probably didn't tell them his age, given the circumstances ...
What the heck is UPMC?
I think he will regret not just divorcing her, when he meets his new boyfriend.
Sounds to me like the doctor is selfie-centered.
Doctor Allegedly Tried to Throw Wife Off Hawaii Cliff Because She Didn’t Want to Take Picture with Him
Samira Asma-Sadeque
Tue 25 March 2025 at 3:13 pm
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/doctor-allegedly-tried-throw-wife-191314882.html
Smart enough to get through med-school but too dumb to know he left behind all kinds of forensic evidence even if wife was dead? He probably even had the locator active on his phone. This was a very lazy attempt to get away with murder.
That would be mu guess since they mentioned Pitt.
This fool needs twenty years to life in prison at least. The Wife needs to change her children's names after the divorce.
What do you call someone who graduated at the bottom of his MD class?
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
The article says she is in serious condition but was able to tell police that it was her 46 ywar old husband that did this to her.
Apparently he was not able to push her off the cliff, as she was found on the side of the trail. Obese?
If thats where I am thinking of, it used to be called the stairway to heaven hike. Beautiful but you had to sneak into the hike to do it or local police would arrest you. A few of us in the Navy Reserves at the time managed to hike in unobserved and climb the cliff overlooking Kāne‘ohe Bay. The trail was there because there used to be a LORAN station at the top decades ago.
Not sure if access is allowed today or not.
The NY Post article says he also “tried” to inject her, with 2 syringes, which doesn’t sound altogether spontaneous to me.
Well I suppose they could have been epipens in case of angry bees...
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