A jury has reached a verdict in the attempted murder trial of Dr. Gerhardt Konig, a Hawaii doctor charged with attempting to kill his wife during a birthday hike on Oahu last year. The trial, which ended after more than eight hours of deliberation, capped a three-week trial that saw both Gerhardt and Arielle Konig offer contrasting accounts of the events of March 24, 2025. Prosecutor Joel Garner claimed that Konig was obsessed with his wife's emotional affair with a co-worker and tried to shove her from a cliff on the Pali Puka Trail, but was caught red-handed when he allegedly stabbed her with a syringe and bashed her head with a rock. On the stand, Gerhardt denied these allegations and claimed he acted in self-defense. The alleged attack occurred three months after Gerhardt discovered his wife had been having an emotional affair and had gone to counseling about it. An emergency doctor who treated Arielle's skull laceration that reached the bone testified that she sustained a soft-tissue injury that did not cause a life-threatening brain injury.