(Credit for Photo: Photo Courtesy of the Honolulu Police Department, Posted on Facebook on March 24th, 2025)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Honolulu, HI) A doctor who was previously an anesthesiologist at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center was on trial on allegations that he attempted to murder his wife on a trail in Hawaii last year took the stand in his own defense yesterday. Maui anesthesiologist Dr. Gerhardt Konig is charged with second-degree attempted murder and is accused of trying to push his wife, Arielle Konig, off a cliff during a hike in Honolulu on March 24th, 2025, which was her birthday. Prosecutors allege he then assaulted her with a rock. Gerhardt Konig hoped to persuade a Hawaiian jury that hitting his wife repeatedly with a rock was self-defense. This allegedly happened after she refused to take a selfie near the edge of a cliff along the Pali Puka trail on the Hawaiian island of Oahu. Arielle Konig was critically injured in the incident but survived, and she has since filed for divorce. Prior to his arrest, Gerhardt Konig was a doctor with the Anesthesia Medical Group in Hawaii, and if he is convicted, he could face up to life in prison.