March 25, 2026

KONIG TRIAL OPENS: "SHE HIT ME FIRST," FL MOM AVOIDS JAIL FOR HIRING HITMAN & CORNHOLE KILLER

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Garret Fisher brings you trial developments and two stunning new cases. The Gerhardt Konig attempted murder trial is underway in Honolulu — jurors heard from two nurses who ran toward a woman's screams and found her covered in blood, as the defense blames the wife. Then: a Florida woman who tried to hire a hitman to kill her three-year-old son — using a fake website — was sentenced Monday. No jail time. And the most surreal case on the docket: a professional cornhole player and quadruple amputee from Maryland is charged with shooting a man twice in the head mid-argument, then driving away with the body still in the car.

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Caalaroga Shark Media. Good morning, I'm Garrett Fisher. Wednesday, March

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twenty fifth, twenty twenty six. We came into this week

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with a trial already under way, a case we introduced

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you to last week. Gerhard Konig, the anesthesiologist from Maui,

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charged with trying to beat his wife to death with

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a rock at a scenic overlook while she screamed for help.

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Days one and two of that trial are now on

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the books, and we have a lot to get to.

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But we also have two new cases that arrived in

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the last forty eight hours. In Miami, a woman was

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sentenced yesterday for trying to hire a hit man to

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kill her own three year old son. She used a

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fake website the detective posed is the killer. She agreed

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to the price, gave them a photo of the child,

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gave them an address, gave them a safe word. She

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did everything but complete the transaction. Yesterday, a judge sentenced

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her no prison time, of course. And in Charles County, Maryland,

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a man has been charged with murder. He allegedly shot

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another man twice in the head during a car argument,

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drove away with the body still in the passenger seat.

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And dumped it on the side of the road. What

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makes this case almost impossible to process. The suspect is

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a professional athlete. He competes in the American Cornhole League.

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He is also a quadruple amputee. I don't have a

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punchline for that one. I don't think anyone does. Three cases.

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Let me walk you through this. We covered this case

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last Friday, March twentieth, So if you're new to the show, welcome,

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and I'm sorry for how we're opening your week. Quick recap.

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Gerhard Koenig is an anesthesiologist who worked at Maui Health

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in Hawaii. On March twenty fourth of last year, exactly

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one year ago this week, he took his wife Ariel

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to the Nuanu poly Lookout on Oahu. It was her

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birthday trip he had planned it, according to prosecutors. What

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he'd actually planned was her death. Prosecutors say he asked

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her to pose for a selfie near the edge of

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a steep cliff. She said she wasn't comfortable, she walked away.

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He allegedly pushed her into the bushes. She got free again.

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He allegedly picked up a rock and beat her head

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with it approximately ten times, grabbing her hair with his

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other hand and slamming her face into the ground. She

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was screaming for help. Two women nurses, it turns out,

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heard the screaming from the trail and ran toward it.

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When they arrived, they found Ariel on her back, her

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husband on top of her, blood everywhere, and there were syringes.

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Ariel told police she watched Gerhardt reach into his bag

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and remove two syringes. He is an anesthesiologist. He knew

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exactly what was in them. He brought them on a hike.

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That is the case we introduced last Friday. Trial opened

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the same day, and now we have two full days

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of testimony to work through. Day one opening statements, the

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prosecution laid it out clean and cold. Gerhart Koenig had

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planned this trip for Ariel's birthday. He had organized it.

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He had brought them to one of the most beautiful

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vistas in the United States, and according to the state,

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he had brought a bag packed with syringes. One detail

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from opening statements that I think will stay with this jury.

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Prosecutors say Gerhart Koenig called his own son, their son,

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after the incident, and told him what he had done.

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Said he tried to kill Ariel, said she got away,

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said he was quote sick of this his own son.

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The defense came out with a counter narrative. Attorney Thomas

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O'take told the jury that Gerhart Koenig is falsely accused,

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that there was no confession to the Sun, that the

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real aggressor that day was Ariel, that she hit Gerhart

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with a rock first, and that he hit her back

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in retaliation, That there was no premeditated plan, that there

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were no syringes, and that a marriage in crisis does

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not equal attempted murder. The defense also leaned hard into

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the affair. They described Ariel as and I'm quoting the

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phrase they used, unfaithful, unwilling, and untrue, accused her of

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an ongoing relationship with a married coworker. Then the witnesses

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took the stand. Amanda Morris and Sarah Bucksbaum, two nurses

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on a hike. Best friends. They testified that they were

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just starting their walk when they heard a woman screaming,

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help me, help me. Bucksbaum told the jury they initially

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thought someone had fallen off the cliff, so they ran

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toward it. What they found a woman on her back,

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a man crouched over her, hitting her with a rock,

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blood covering her head and face, Ariel crawling toward them,

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saying help me, he's trying to kill me. Bucksbaum described

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making eye contact with Gerhard Koenig for about thirty si.

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She said he had a cold, emotionless stare that made

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her feel very uneasy. Morris told the jury she identified

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the defendant as the man holding the rock. On cross examination,

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the defense got some traction. Morris confirmed she only saw

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the defendant strike Ariel once with the rock, not ten times,

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and Bucksbaum was forced to acknowledge that in a police

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photo lineup, she initially identified a different person, not Gerhart Koenig,

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someone else. She corrected herself eventually identified Gerhart, but the

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defense made sure the jury heard about the first identification.

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That is going to matter. Eyewitness reliability is the thread

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the defense is pulling at. The jury now knows that

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one of the two women who ran toward the screaming

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initially identified the wrong man. There were also police witnesses

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on day one, officers who canvassed the area after the attack.

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They confirmed they did not find the phone, the wallet,

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the per the vials, or any syringe. The defense will

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make something of that too. Day two evidence, the jury

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saw photographs of Ariel Koenig's injuries, her face, her head,

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the visible wounds, and here's the thing that the defense

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will use. The jury also saw photographs of Gerhardt Koenig

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with injuries to his own face, facial bruising, cuts. His

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clothes were shown to the jury as well. The defense

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wants that evidence in front of these jurors. Their client

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was hurt too. That is the foundation of their theory.

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This was a mutual altercation, not a premeditated murder attempt.

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She hit him, he hit her back. The prosecution will

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tell you that a man hitting back does not involve

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ten blows to the head with a rock. It does

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not involve reaching into a bag for syringes. It does

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not involve planning a birthday trip to a cliff side viewpoint.

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A terrain expert from the Hawaii Department of Land and

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Natural Resources also testified on day two. He described the

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trail conditions muddy, wet, slippery, dense tree canopy, the kind

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of place where you could fall and it could look

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like an accident, the kind of place where a push

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toward a cliff edge might not leave obvious evidence, the

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kind of place you choose if you were planning something.

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There is a witness this jury has not heard from

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yet Ariel Koenig herself. She has said she intends to testify.

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When she does, she will walk into that courtroom and

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describe what it felt like to be struck in the

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head repeatedly by her husband while she screamed, while he

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kept going. The defense will cross examine her. They will

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bring up the affair, They will bring up her credibility.

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They will do what defense attorneys are supposed to do.

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Ariel Koenig survived a cliff side attack on her birthday.

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She's going to be asked to survive a courtroom next.

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Remember Ariel Koenig, who is still here to tell it?

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Rentahitman dot com. That is a real website. I need

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you to know that before we go further. It is

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not a real service. It is a parody website. The

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owner has said publicly that he runs it largely as

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a joke, that he receives hundreds of service requests a week,

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and that most of them are clearly fake, but some

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of them are not. And when the requests aren't fake,

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when someone fills out the intake form with a real name,

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a real photo, a real address, and a deadline. Bob Innes,

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the man who runs the site, contacts the police. That

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is what happened. In July twenty twenty three, a woman

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in Miami submitted a service request to rent a hitman

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dot com. The intended target her three year old son.

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She included his name, his photo sent by the child's grandmother,

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who had taken it the day before, the address where

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he could be found. She wanted the job done by

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the end of that week. She included a safe word

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put me in coach the reason listed for the request

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to get something done quote once and for all. She

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wanted her son taken away, far, far, far away and

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possibly be killed. But asap Bob Innis saw the request,

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he flagged it. Police launched an investigation. A detective posed

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as the hit man made contact with the phone number provided.

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The woman agreed to pay three thousand dollars to have

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her son killed. Police trace the ip address, went to

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the address, found the child safe with his grandmother, then

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went to the woman's father's house and arrested her. She

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confessed her name is Yasmin Pias. She was eighteen years

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old at the time of her arrest. She had been

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a mother since she was approximately fifteen. Her son was

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the product of what prosecutors described in court Monday as

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a potentially incestuous relationship. There's a man named Gamaliel Soza

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who also played a role in this. He was Pye'z's

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boyfriend when she told him about the plan. His text

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messages were, to put it plainly, encouraging one message, the

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kid is the problem. I hope you see that. All

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I ever wanted was to free you. I told you

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about the kid. You won't do anything another You do it,

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and I'll think about coming back. He wanted to come back.

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She wanted him to come back, and so she went

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to a fake hit man website. Of course she did.

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Piees had initially pleaded not guilty. She faced up to

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forty years in prison. She was also separately dealing with

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a schizophrenia diagnosis, multiple surgeries in her past, and a

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life that had been, by any measure, extraordinarily difficult before

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any of this happened. Her father, after her original arrest,

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told reporters his daughter was not a monster, that she

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was a girl, girl who had been bullied, who had

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health problems, who had been called names, her whole life.

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He believed the justice system would show the full truth.

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Three years later, Monday March twenty third, twenty twenty six, yesterday,

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Yasmin Pai has appeared in court and pleaded guilty solicitation

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of first degree murder, unlawful use of a communications device,

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tampering with evidence, all of it. The sentence no jail time,

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two years of strict community control, followed by twelve years

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of reporting probation. If she violates any of it, she

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faces up to forty years in state prison. She cannot

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contact her son until her probation ends in twenty forty,

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by which point he will be approximately twenty years old.

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Her parental rights were terminated. Her son was adopted by

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her own mother, who already had him living with her.

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Yasmin Pius now lives with her biological father, the same

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father who defended her to the press in twenty twenty three.

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The judge at an earlier hearing in this case made

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a remark that has stayed with me. He said something

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to the effect of, if the intent wasn't so serious,

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this would almost be comical. Nobody looking at that website

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could have believed it was real, But she did. Here

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is where I land on this. The outcome is jarring.

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No prison time for soliciting the murder of your child

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is a sentence that will make a lot of people

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very angry, and that anger is not unreasonable. But I

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want to hold two things at once. The child is safe.

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He is with a family that wants him. His mother

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has lost all contact with him for at least fourteen years,

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possibly more. She will spend the next fourteen years on

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supervised release, one violation away from forty years in prison.

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She is twenty years old. The boy's name has not

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been made public. He should never know what his mother

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tried to do. He deserves a life that doesn't start

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with this. Do better. I want to be very careful

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about how I tell this story, because the facts of

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it are so strange that the temptation is to tell

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it for effect, and the man who is dead deserves

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better than that. His name is Bradrick Michael Wells. He

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was twenty seven years old. He was in the front

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passenger seat of a car on the night of March

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twenty second, driving through Charles County, Maryland, when, according to witnesses,

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in argument broke out and then two gunshots Bradrick Wells

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was shot twice in the head. The driver allegedly asked

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the passengers to remove him from the car. They refused.

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The two passengers got out and flagged down a police officer.

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The driver drove away with Bradrick Wells still in the

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passenger seat. Just after midnight, a resident at a home

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on Newport Church Road in Charlotte Hall discovered a body

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on the side of the road, Bradrick well The driver's

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name is Dayton James Weber. He is twenty seven years old.

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He lives in Laplata, Maryland. He was found the next

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morning in Charlottesville, Virginia, at a hospital seeking treatment for injuries.

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He was arrested there. He was arraigned in Charles County

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District Court on charges of first degree murder, second degree murder,

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two counts of first degree assault, and use of a

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firearm in the commission of a felony. And now I

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have to tell you the rest of it. Dayton Weber

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is a quadruple amputee. As an infant, he contracted a

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blood infection that resulted in the amputation of all four limbs.

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He has lived his entire life without hands or feet.

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He has also, according to his social media presence and

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competition history, built a life as a professional athlete. He

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competes in the American Cornhole League the ACL, which has

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been broadcast on ESPN since twenty sixteen. He is, by

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the league standards, a serious competitor. Cornhole, the beanbag toss

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game you have played at every backyard party of your

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adult life, has a professional circuit. It has brackets and

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rankings and prize money and a commissioner who is actively

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lobbying for it to become an Olympic sport, and Dayton

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Weber was in it. Videos posted to social media before

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his arrest also apparently show him shooting firearms, rifles, and handguns.

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He has found ways to do things that most people

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would consider physically impossible, which brings us to the question

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that the Charles County Sheriff's Office has not yet answered,

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and they have said explicitly that they have not answered

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it yet. How did Dayton Weber fire a gun? How

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did he drive a car? The detective who signed the

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charging document simply describes him pulling out a firearm and

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shooting Wells twice in the head while driving. The two

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witnesses identified in court documents only as W one and

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W two both identified Webber as the shooter. There is

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apparently no dispute that he was the driver and that

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he fired the shots. The how is an open question.

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I am not raising the how to suggest that he

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could not have done it. The evidence on the question

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of whether he did it appears to be straightforward. Two

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eyewitnesses in the car who identified him by name. The

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Charles County Sheriff's office has said there is no evidence

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of anyone else being involved. I'm raising the how because

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it tells us something about Dayton Weber that matters to

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this story. He had spent his life figuring out how

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to do things people assumed he couldn't do, including if

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prosecutors are right this. He is currently in Virginia awaiting

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extradition to Maryland. This case is early. We do not

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know what the argument was about. We do not know

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the relationship between Weber and Bradrick Wells. We do not

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know what happened in the hours before that car ride.

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What we know Bradrick Michael Wells was twenty seven years old.

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He was in the front seat of a car. He

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didn't get out of it. Remember Bradrick Wells. That is Wednesday,

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March twenty fifth, twenty twenty six. Gerhard Koenig is on

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trial in Honolulu. His wife's testimony is coming. Two nurses

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already took that stand and described what they saw. The

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defense is working a photo lineup error and a pair

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of disputed injuries. We will keep watching. Jasmin Pez pled

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guilty to soliciting the murder of her three year old son.

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She will not see the inside of a prison. Her

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son has a different family now he is saved. Bradrick

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Michael Wells is dead, a twenty seven year old man

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who got into a car and did not come back out.

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Dayton Weber is in custody, charged with his murder. More

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will come. Three cases, none of them feel real, and

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yet do better.