April 9, 2026
Husbands Behaving Badly (Part 2): Maui Doctor GUILTY Of Attempted Murder On Hike With Wife
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RSS Feed A jury took a little more than 8 hours to convict the Hawaii anesthesiologist accused of pushing and trying to kill his wife on a steep birthday hike. 40-year-old Dr. Gerhardt Konig was convicted of attempted manslaughter but the jury spared Konig of the more serious charge of second degree attempted murder. Konig now faces up to 20 years in prison for his conviction.
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00:00:02
Speaker 1: Hey, the folks, it is Thursday, April ninth, and it was a he said, she said case, and ultimately the jury believed what she said. And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and DJ and Robes. What she said is that her husband tried to kill her by pushing her off a steep steep cliff in Hawaii.
00:00:28
Speaker 2: Yes, on her birthday on a hike.
00:00:31
Speaker 3: And it wasn't just what she said, it's what his son said, and it's also what the pictures showed, what eye witnesses saw and heard. There was a well we now know, insurmountable amount of evidence against doctor Gerhard Koenig, who was found guilty of attempted manslaughter based on extreme mental or emotional disturbance. He did actually get a split verdict because he was found not guilty on that much more serious charge of second degree murder that would have given him mandatory life in prison. So, yes, he was found guilty, but I guess you could say it could have been worse.
00:01:23
Speaker 1: Yeah, And this is the case, of course, that has made national headlines. It's been difficult Robes that we've talked about, maybe for a lot of people in the US to keep an eye on and maybe it's not getting the headlines that you might expect because quite frankly, it's way out there, it's in Hawaii. The time zones are different. What did you tell me? The difference was today.
00:01:41
Speaker 2: Eight hours behind New York.
00:01:44
Speaker 3: So yes, by the time we're all in bed, they're like going through like the first parts of their court proceedings in the morning.
00:01:52
Speaker 2: Like it just is so different.
00:01:54
Speaker 4: I think that's fair.
00:01:54
Speaker 1: A lot of this has been missed, But yes, doctor Gerhardt Koenik has now been found guilty. A jury has said, yes, they do believe her story. And as he said, she said, which is really Robes, a story that was about what happened on this steep cliff, this picturesque hike in Hawaii. What happened? He said, she attacked him. She said he attacked her, try to push her off this cliff. She was bloodied, she was beaten. He still got on the stand and made a self defense claim. Ultimately the jury didn't buy it. So Gearhard Koenik has been found guilty. Robes, we go back. We've been talking about this story, We've been covering this story, and I said to you, I don't know how he's showing his face and getting on the stand and trying to tell a story about self defense when I see the picture of that woman that he claims he had to be like that in self defense.
00:03:01
Speaker 3: Yeah, So you and I watched doctor Koenig get on the stand in his own defense, which was fairly remarkable, as you pointed out, because yes, his I guess now ex wife are soon to be ex wife took the stand and said and testified a very compelling version of what had happened to her, with all of the visuals, all of the doctors, all of the medical reports backing up what she was saying, what she experienced. His own son describing a FaceTime call where he claims that his own father admitted right there to him that yes, he tried to kill his step mom because she had cheated on him. That's what this whole case was centered around. But to see doctor Koenig.
00:03:47
Speaker 4: An emotional affair, we should say.
00:03:49
Speaker 2: You know what, thank you for pointing that out.
00:03:50
Speaker 3: We because by all accounts, she admitted to having an emotional affair. And I think it was fairly proven in court that they never physically met this colleague of hers, They were never actually in the same place physically together. So this was clearly just something that was going on online.
00:04:13
Speaker 1: And it was something that apparently this doctor Gerhart was obsessed with. He was so upset about it.
00:04:20
Speaker 4: Mister.
00:04:21
Speaker 1: What came out during the case, but Robes, as we listened to the details and we listened to all of his testimony on the stand, his cross examination and trying to explain how this happened, Robes, it was so far fetched. You know, I'm not a circumstantial evidence kind of guy.
00:04:38
Speaker 4: It was.
00:04:39
Speaker 1: This was one of those he said, she said, where that she survived, that she actually could tell the story of what happened, and when she got to speak, Robes, it was almost, I'm sorry, laughable that he was trying to suggest this woman attacked him. He had a bruise on the left side of his face. In Robes, we saw that picture. She was unrecognizable because of the blood coming off of her head and down into her face.
00:05:12
Speaker 3: Yes, he admitted on the stand to having hit her defensively twice with a rock when she claimed and I believe the forensics showed she was hit at least ten times with a rock. So just imagine what that looks like if you have been slammed in the head with a rock ten times.
00:05:36
Speaker 2: Yes, there was an incredible amount of blood on her.
00:05:39
Speaker 5: But yes, I thought, for me, the most unbelievable part of his testimony when he started describing the fact that he claims his wife was attacking him, trying to kill him, that when she did, she pulled him on.
00:05:57
Speaker 2: Top of her.
00:05:58
Speaker 3: So she's on the ground on her back, and according to his testimony, while she's trying to kill him, she pulls him on top of her and then was able from being on her back with him on top of her. He weighs more than her, he's taller than her, a man versus a woman, you get it. She's able to wield a rock up at his head from that position. Everything he was describing, I'm sorry there was no juror who could have possibly believed that that was a likely or even like possible scenario.
00:06:38
Speaker 2: It was ridiculous, you.
00:06:40
Speaker 1: Said, no juror, And yes, obviously he's been found guilty, but he was found guilty of a lesser charge. And to what your point here and there being a jury, no one would believe, well, one of them the jury four. Parson at least spoke to NBC News and that was interesting. They thought it was too. It was almost insurmountable to prove that he intended to kill her, Like if we describe the attack as is, we can't get over the fact that he actually had that intent. That's what he wanted to do in that moment. I thought that was interesting, and they ended up with a lesser charge.
00:07:17
Speaker 3: I thought that was really interesting because so the conversation was, according to doctor Gerhart, they somehow started talking about this emotional affair again and that and she, according to him, brought up the fact that she wanted to start traveling for work and that would include her possibly meeting and being around physically with this man she had an emotional affair with.
00:07:41
Speaker 2: He claims that his wife.
00:07:43
Speaker 3: Brought that up on this hike, and that is what led to this physical altercation that she provoked and ended the way it did. So look, maybe the jury just felt like there was no way to prove who started what, and if you can't prove that, you can't know that he pre meditated this act. However, you have to remember the prosecution I thought, did a pretty good job trying to lay the groundwork for that very notion that he premeditated this because he was obsessed, because he was buying these books.
00:08:17
Speaker 2: They were just showing him going to the wife.
00:08:21
Speaker 3: Of the man she had an emotional affair with and trying to get her to attack his wife or confront his wife. He had just been thinking about this for so long, and they were trying to just establish.
00:08:34
Speaker 2: Some sort of his mental.
00:08:38
Speaker 3: Decisions along the way that led to that day where he ultimately tried to kill her.
00:08:43
Speaker 1: He was looking up trails as well. They pointed that out. It's part of the premeditation, but the jury didn't buy it. No, to that extent, the jury didn't buy it. Fine, it took them eight hours.
00:08:58
Speaker 4: You and I were going back and forth.
00:09:00
Speaker 1: Look, I am where we fail every time I say, we not just me and you, everybody, nobody knows what the hell a jury is going to do. Ever, But this one took about eight hours. And we were talking previously, like what are they taking him so long?
00:09:14
Speaker 3: So I even said, having listened to we didn't listen to every single because of the time difference. That's just full disclosure, full transparency. But what we did here, to me, I was a little surprised that one hour, two hour, three hours, four hours, all of this time went by. I actually thought this time a decision, a jury verdict would come much sooner than eight hours plus. That was a little bit of a shock. But we did get the verdict eventually, and the jury for a person did speak to NBC News, as you pointed out. But the question next is when is sentencing and what is he facing now? Because he did not get the more serious charge of second degree murder, but now he is looking at a manslaughter charge? What does that mean for doctor Gerhart?
00:10:09
Speaker 2: And welcome back everyone.
00:10:18
Speaker 3: As we talk about this big verdict that came out of Maui late in the evening on Wednesday, So as you're waking up, Yes, we are learning that doctor Gerhart Koenig has been found guilty of attempted manslaughter based upon extreme mental or emotional disturbance. He is charged or he is now convicted of, yes, trying to kill his wife, essentially trying to push her off a cliff on a birthday hike last March. Yeah, and so yes, now we are looking at what this man is facing with these charges.
00:11:00
Speaker 2: He was looking at a life sentence.
00:11:02
Speaker 3: And now he is up to facing twenty years plus at this point. That is what we're hearing, and his sentencing date is in August. But certainly, of course we were already hearing from the defense. They're of course relieved. I would imagine that he isn't facing the more serious charge. But there are steps they are taking. Now, Yeah, what are those steps to appeal the verdict? Yes, of course they say they are looking forward. They look forward to appealing the verdict in this case. And look, I don't know what grounds they will make at this point, because frankly, it looks like he could have been facing much much more jail time if the jury had found him guilty of that more serious charge, which, frankly, after listening to it, we never get it right. I thought that was very possible.
00:11:54
Speaker 1: You thought the more serious charge, Yeah, I mean again, this was just one that didn't make sense. And reading about the story plenty before actually watching the testimony, you could be open minded. Listening to these folks testify, it was hard to be open minded. It was hard to see any way possible that you would give any weight to his story when you compare it to hers. She got on the stand. It was a very convincing witness. His son, which is her step son. So this is the son from his first marriage got on the stand and say, yeah, my dad called me and told me that he tried to kill her. He told me goodbye and that he wasn't going to I wasn't going to see him again. He was going to kill himself. And he told me that he was She attacked him because she had had an affair. Like, why even tell what are you setting up? What was the bro This is just unfathomable. And the two you know what the prosecutor in the closing argument said that we listed those several reasons that this man is now on trial and that his wife was alive. Those two witnesses, right, were everything. They having two people close by hearing her scream and then coming and seeing and then they testified. Broll, this is one that was desided. Did you use the word insurmountable? Yes, And we were surprised it took as long as it did.
00:13:35
Speaker 3: That was my biggest surprise that the jury actually struggled with this as long as they did to come to the unanus verdict that they came to. But I stand by the fact that I am genuinely surprised that he was only convicted of the lesser charge. In terms of the premeditation, I thought, I mean, just from what we heard, I thought the prosecution did a pretty good job of established established, seeing, establishing at least enough of I felt like proof that he had thought about this, that he had researched this hike, that he had looked into his options, that there were plenty of other best hikes in this area, that he chose a hike that was dangerous, He chose a hike that had steep cliffs, and he was trying to get her and urging her to continue, even though she was scared, even though she didn't want to go on those steeper versions on her birthday, by the way, he was trying to get her to follow him.
00:14:33
Speaker 2: So anyway, I.
00:14:34
Speaker 3: Thought that was the most surprising part of this, that it took so long for the jury to get there, and that they only convicted him on the lesser charge given all of the evidence.
00:14:45
Speaker 1: Hey, you know what they again, I never know what a jury is going to do. They hear every single word of every single witness we oftentimes don't get to. It's their job to sit and pay attention and listen to everything.
00:14:58
Speaker 4: And this is is there more?
00:15:01
Speaker 1: Who are we to ever question, because they are the ones that know better than any of us because of the way they paid attention. But this is a case that made national headlines. Probably would have made more had this anesthesiologist, yeah been based in the US continuous forty eight, but he was out in Hawaii. But this is a story that got a lot of headlines. But now, konig, how old is he? Not even forty? Why was this guy? She's thirty seven? I think he is thirty nine. He's thirty nine, Yeah.
00:15:33
Speaker 3: Twenty years. Looks like he is facing that. But look, that is not a life sentence. He could be out that is true, before the age of sixty and live a full life afterwards. And look, she thankfully survived this attack. I can only imagine what she's feeling with this verdict. But at least he is going to be behind bars for it looks like the next two decades. Again, that sentencing on August thirteenth. We will continue to follow this but thank you as always for listening to us.
00:16:03
Speaker 2: Everyone. I'm Amy Roebuck alongside T. J. Holmes. We will talk to you soon.
Speaker 1: Hey, the folks, it is Thursday, April ninth, and it was a he said, she said case, and ultimately the jury believed what she said. And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and DJ and Robes. What she said is that her husband tried to kill her by pushing her off a steep steep cliff in Hawaii.
00:00:28
Speaker 2: Yes, on her birthday on a hike.
00:00:31
Speaker 3: And it wasn't just what she said, it's what his son said, and it's also what the pictures showed, what eye witnesses saw and heard. There was a well we now know, insurmountable amount of evidence against doctor Gerhard Koenig, who was found guilty of attempted manslaughter based on extreme mental or emotional disturbance. He did actually get a split verdict because he was found not guilty on that much more serious charge of second degree murder that would have given him mandatory life in prison. So, yes, he was found guilty, but I guess you could say it could have been worse.
00:01:23
Speaker 1: Yeah, And this is the case, of course, that has made national headlines. It's been difficult Robes that we've talked about, maybe for a lot of people in the US to keep an eye on and maybe it's not getting the headlines that you might expect because quite frankly, it's way out there, it's in Hawaii. The time zones are different. What did you tell me? The difference was today.
00:01:41
Speaker 2: Eight hours behind New York.
00:01:44
Speaker 3: So yes, by the time we're all in bed, they're like going through like the first parts of their court proceedings in the morning.
00:01:52
Speaker 2: Like it just is so different.
00:01:54
Speaker 4: I think that's fair.
00:01:54
Speaker 1: A lot of this has been missed, But yes, doctor Gerhardt Koenik has now been found guilty. A jury has said, yes, they do believe her story. And as he said, she said, which is really Robes, a story that was about what happened on this steep cliff, this picturesque hike in Hawaii. What happened? He said, she attacked him. She said he attacked her, try to push her off this cliff. She was bloodied, she was beaten. He still got on the stand and made a self defense claim. Ultimately the jury didn't buy it. So Gearhard Koenik has been found guilty. Robes, we go back. We've been talking about this story, We've been covering this story, and I said to you, I don't know how he's showing his face and getting on the stand and trying to tell a story about self defense when I see the picture of that woman that he claims he had to be like that in self defense.
00:03:01
Speaker 3: Yeah, So you and I watched doctor Koenig get on the stand in his own defense, which was fairly remarkable, as you pointed out, because yes, his I guess now ex wife are soon to be ex wife took the stand and said and testified a very compelling version of what had happened to her, with all of the visuals, all of the doctors, all of the medical reports backing up what she was saying, what she experienced. His own son describing a FaceTime call where he claims that his own father admitted right there to him that yes, he tried to kill his step mom because she had cheated on him. That's what this whole case was centered around. But to see doctor Koenig.
00:03:47
Speaker 4: An emotional affair, we should say.
00:03:49
Speaker 2: You know what, thank you for pointing that out.
00:03:50
Speaker 3: We because by all accounts, she admitted to having an emotional affair. And I think it was fairly proven in court that they never physically met this colleague of hers, They were never actually in the same place physically together. So this was clearly just something that was going on online.
00:04:13
Speaker 1: And it was something that apparently this doctor Gerhart was obsessed with. He was so upset about it.
00:04:20
Speaker 4: Mister.
00:04:21
Speaker 1: What came out during the case, but Robes, as we listened to the details and we listened to all of his testimony on the stand, his cross examination and trying to explain how this happened, Robes, it was so far fetched. You know, I'm not a circumstantial evidence kind of guy.
00:04:38
Speaker 4: It was.
00:04:39
Speaker 1: This was one of those he said, she said, where that she survived, that she actually could tell the story of what happened, and when she got to speak, Robes, it was almost, I'm sorry, laughable that he was trying to suggest this woman attacked him. He had a bruise on the left side of his face. In Robes, we saw that picture. She was unrecognizable because of the blood coming off of her head and down into her face.
00:05:12
Speaker 3: Yes, he admitted on the stand to having hit her defensively twice with a rock when she claimed and I believe the forensics showed she was hit at least ten times with a rock. So just imagine what that looks like if you have been slammed in the head with a rock ten times.
00:05:36
Speaker 2: Yes, there was an incredible amount of blood on her.
00:05:39
Speaker 5: But yes, I thought, for me, the most unbelievable part of his testimony when he started describing the fact that he claims his wife was attacking him, trying to kill him, that when she did, she pulled him on.
00:05:57
Speaker 2: Top of her.
00:05:58
Speaker 3: So she's on the ground on her back, and according to his testimony, while she's trying to kill him, she pulls him on top of her and then was able from being on her back with him on top of her. He weighs more than her, he's taller than her, a man versus a woman, you get it. She's able to wield a rock up at his head from that position. Everything he was describing, I'm sorry there was no juror who could have possibly believed that that was a likely or even like possible scenario.
00:06:38
Speaker 2: It was ridiculous, you.
00:06:40
Speaker 1: Said, no juror, And yes, obviously he's been found guilty, but he was found guilty of a lesser charge. And to what your point here and there being a jury, no one would believe, well, one of them the jury four. Parson at least spoke to NBC News and that was interesting. They thought it was too. It was almost insurmountable to prove that he intended to kill her, Like if we describe the attack as is, we can't get over the fact that he actually had that intent. That's what he wanted to do in that moment. I thought that was interesting, and they ended up with a lesser charge.
00:07:17
Speaker 3: I thought that was really interesting because so the conversation was, according to doctor Gerhart, they somehow started talking about this emotional affair again and that and she, according to him, brought up the fact that she wanted to start traveling for work and that would include her possibly meeting and being around physically with this man she had an emotional affair with.
00:07:41
Speaker 2: He claims that his wife.
00:07:43
Speaker 3: Brought that up on this hike, and that is what led to this physical altercation that she provoked and ended the way it did. So look, maybe the jury just felt like there was no way to prove who started what, and if you can't prove that, you can't know that he pre meditated this act. However, you have to remember the prosecution I thought, did a pretty good job trying to lay the groundwork for that very notion that he premeditated this because he was obsessed, because he was buying these books.
00:08:17
Speaker 2: They were just showing him going to the wife.
00:08:21
Speaker 3: Of the man she had an emotional affair with and trying to get her to attack his wife or confront his wife. He had just been thinking about this for so long, and they were trying to just establish.
00:08:34
Speaker 2: Some sort of his mental.
00:08:38
Speaker 3: Decisions along the way that led to that day where he ultimately tried to kill her.
00:08:43
Speaker 1: He was looking up trails as well. They pointed that out. It's part of the premeditation, but the jury didn't buy it. No, to that extent, the jury didn't buy it. Fine, it took them eight hours.
00:08:58
Speaker 4: You and I were going back and forth.
00:09:00
Speaker 1: Look, I am where we fail every time I say, we not just me and you, everybody, nobody knows what the hell a jury is going to do. Ever, But this one took about eight hours. And we were talking previously, like what are they taking him so long?
00:09:14
Speaker 3: So I even said, having listened to we didn't listen to every single because of the time difference. That's just full disclosure, full transparency. But what we did here, to me, I was a little surprised that one hour, two hour, three hours, four hours, all of this time went by. I actually thought this time a decision, a jury verdict would come much sooner than eight hours plus. That was a little bit of a shock. But we did get the verdict eventually, and the jury for a person did speak to NBC News, as you pointed out. But the question next is when is sentencing and what is he facing now? Because he did not get the more serious charge of second degree murder, but now he is looking at a manslaughter charge? What does that mean for doctor Gerhart?
00:10:09
Speaker 2: And welcome back everyone.
00:10:18
Speaker 3: As we talk about this big verdict that came out of Maui late in the evening on Wednesday, So as you're waking up, Yes, we are learning that doctor Gerhart Koenig has been found guilty of attempted manslaughter based upon extreme mental or emotional disturbance. He is charged or he is now convicted of, yes, trying to kill his wife, essentially trying to push her off a cliff on a birthday hike last March. Yeah, and so yes, now we are looking at what this man is facing with these charges.
00:11:00
Speaker 2: He was looking at a life sentence.
00:11:02
Speaker 3: And now he is up to facing twenty years plus at this point. That is what we're hearing, and his sentencing date is in August. But certainly, of course we were already hearing from the defense. They're of course relieved. I would imagine that he isn't facing the more serious charge. But there are steps they are taking. Now, Yeah, what are those steps to appeal the verdict? Yes, of course they say they are looking forward. They look forward to appealing the verdict in this case. And look, I don't know what grounds they will make at this point, because frankly, it looks like he could have been facing much much more jail time if the jury had found him guilty of that more serious charge, which, frankly, after listening to it, we never get it right. I thought that was very possible.
00:11:54
Speaker 1: You thought the more serious charge, Yeah, I mean again, this was just one that didn't make sense. And reading about the story plenty before actually watching the testimony, you could be open minded. Listening to these folks testify, it was hard to be open minded. It was hard to see any way possible that you would give any weight to his story when you compare it to hers. She got on the stand. It was a very convincing witness. His son, which is her step son. So this is the son from his first marriage got on the stand and say, yeah, my dad called me and told me that he tried to kill her. He told me goodbye and that he wasn't going to I wasn't going to see him again. He was going to kill himself. And he told me that he was She attacked him because she had had an affair. Like, why even tell what are you setting up? What was the bro This is just unfathomable. And the two you know what the prosecutor in the closing argument said that we listed those several reasons that this man is now on trial and that his wife was alive. Those two witnesses, right, were everything. They having two people close by hearing her scream and then coming and seeing and then they testified. Broll, this is one that was desided. Did you use the word insurmountable? Yes, And we were surprised it took as long as it did.
00:13:35
Speaker 3: That was my biggest surprise that the jury actually struggled with this as long as they did to come to the unanus verdict that they came to. But I stand by the fact that I am genuinely surprised that he was only convicted of the lesser charge. In terms of the premeditation, I thought, I mean, just from what we heard, I thought the prosecution did a pretty good job of established established, seeing, establishing at least enough of I felt like proof that he had thought about this, that he had researched this hike, that he had looked into his options, that there were plenty of other best hikes in this area, that he chose a hike that was dangerous, He chose a hike that had steep cliffs, and he was trying to get her and urging her to continue, even though she was scared, even though she didn't want to go on those steeper versions on her birthday, by the way, he was trying to get her to follow him.
00:14:33
Speaker 2: So anyway, I.
00:14:34
Speaker 3: Thought that was the most surprising part of this, that it took so long for the jury to get there, and that they only convicted him on the lesser charge given all of the evidence.
00:14:45
Speaker 1: Hey, you know what they again, I never know what a jury is going to do. They hear every single word of every single witness we oftentimes don't get to. It's their job to sit and pay attention and listen to everything.
00:14:58
Speaker 4: And this is is there more?
00:15:01
Speaker 1: Who are we to ever question, because they are the ones that know better than any of us because of the way they paid attention. But this is a case that made national headlines. Probably would have made more had this anesthesiologist, yeah been based in the US continuous forty eight, but he was out in Hawaii. But this is a story that got a lot of headlines. But now, konig, how old is he? Not even forty? Why was this guy? She's thirty seven? I think he is thirty nine. He's thirty nine, Yeah.
00:15:33
Speaker 3: Twenty years. Looks like he is facing that. But look, that is not a life sentence. He could be out that is true, before the age of sixty and live a full life afterwards. And look, she thankfully survived this attack. I can only imagine what she's feeling with this verdict. But at least he is going to be behind bars for it looks like the next two decades. Again, that sentencing on August thirteenth. We will continue to follow this but thank you as always for listening to us.
00:16:03
Speaker 2: Everyone. I'm Amy Roebuck alongside T. J. Holmes. We will talk to you soon.