The Hawaii physician accused of making an attempt to kill his spouse was pressured to confess to a jury embarrassing particulars about their relationship after her “emotional affair” with a coworker, together with that they’d stopped sleeping collectively and he referred to as her a “mendacity b–h and a w—e.”
Gerhardt Konig — an anesthesiologist on trial for allegedly bashing spouse Arielle over the pinnacle with a rock throughout a hike — testified Thursday that after he came upon about her “flirty texts” with colleague Jeff Miller the Konigs stopped having intercourse for months.
They didn’t have intercourse once more after Christmas Eve 2024 within the time main as much as when he allegedly attacked her on March 24, 2025, Gerhardt admitted throughout cross examination Thursday, the Every day Mail reported.
“Arielle was unwilling to have intercourse with you everytime you demanded it, isn’t that proper,” prosecutor Joel Garner requested, in keeping with a report by HawaiiNewsNow.
“I by no means demanded intercourse, in order that’s not proper,” Konig, 47, responded.
“After you name a lady a mendacity b–h and a wh–e, it is smart that they don’t wish to have intercourse with you, proper,” Garner pressed, prompting a profitable objection from Konig’s protection lawyer.
Garner requested if Gerhardt referred to as his spouse the graphic insult.
“I did name her that in some unspecified time in the future,” Konig answered.
Gerhardt selected to testify in his personal protection on Wednesday and Thursday as he copped to hitting Arielle, 37, — a nuclear engineer — over the pinnacle, however insisting it was in self-defense after she attacked him first.
The lead as much as the combat got here within the wake of Gerhardt discovering out she had a three-month-long emotional affair together with her married co-worker Miller, he testified.
“I unlocked [Arielle’s] telephone whereas she was sleeping” — a transfer prompted by Gerhardt noticing she had change into glued to her telephone, he stated.
He then went into “detective mode” monitoring their messages in actual time for 2 days after logging into her Whatsapp account from his laptop, he admitted.
“I used to be upset about the whole relationship they’d,” he testified.
On Wednesday, Gerhardt claimed Arielle attacked him whereas they had been mountaineering the Pali Puka path in Oahu after she introduced up work journey with Miller.
The couple walked in numerous instructions and once they got here again collectively, Arielle’s demeanor modified and she or he recommended they take a selfie collectively by the cliff’s edge — when he felt a “shove.”
He claimed he was “nearly pushed off the sting” earlier than his spouse yanked him to the bottom.
“She retains yelling, and she or he grabs my wrists and throws herself on the bottom and pulls me down together with her,” Gerhardt Konig, in keeping with a report by KHON2. “I’m thrashing, and I get each arms free, and I’m making an attempt to get her to let go of my testicles, after which she hits me with a rock.”
He claimed he managed to get the rock away from her after which hit her twice within the head with it in self-defense.
“I felt horrible,” Gerhardt stated of the aftermath of the scuffle.
Arielle and her stepson — who’s Gerhardt’s son — have testified in opposition to him through the sensational trial in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Son Emile Konig testified his dad referred to as him on FaceTime saying “he wouldn’t be making it again to Maui and to take excellent care of the youthful children.”
Emile claimed the dad stated his stepmom “had been dishonest on him and that he tried to kill her,” in keeping with a report by CNN.
Arielle additionally instructed jurors her account of the occasions, claiming he instructed her “f–ok you, you’re executed” earlier than hitting her over the pinnacle and making an attempt to stab her with a syringe — which he has denied.
The case is anticipated to wrap up with closing arguments on Tuesday.
Konig has pleaded not responsible to tried homicide.
