GUILTY: Hawaii Anesthesiologist Faces 20 Years for Cliffside Attack | Crime Alert 04.09.26
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🗓️ 9 April 2026
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Dr. Gerhardt Konig found guilty of attempted second-degree manslaughter after 8 hours of deliberations. Video captured a terrifying late-night random act of violence in Ohio, when a knife-wielding man told a homeowner he intended to kill him "in the name of Allah." Family desperate to find accountant who disappeared over the weekend. Sydney Sumner reports.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.4 | Crime alert, hourly update. Breaking Crime News now. |
| 0:08.4 | I'm Sidney Sumner. From Honolulu, a verdict has finally come down in a case that turned a scenic birthday hike into a bloody struggle for survival on Oahu's cliffs. |
| 0:18.9 | A jury has found anesthesiologist Gerhard Koenig guilty of |
| 0:23.6 | attempted manslaughter for a brutal attack on his wife, Ariel, along the Polypuka Trail. |
| 0:29.7 | Now this wasn't the second-degree attempted murder conviction prosecutors were gunning for. |
| 0:34.9 | After eight hours of deliberation, the jury opted for the lesser charge, |
| 0:39.3 | citing extreme mental or emotional disturbance. The facts of March 24, 2025 are harrowing. What was |
| 0:46.8 | supposed to be a birthday hike ended with Ariel Koenig fighting for her life. She testified that |
| 0:52.3 | her husband looked her in the eye, said, you, you're done, and tried to hurl her off a cliff before bashing her head with a rock. |
| 1:00.0 | Hi, what's currently being attacked on the top of Polly Puka? |
| 1:06.0 | Where? There's a man trying to kill her. She's blood all over her face. |
| 1:10.0 | Where is it that? Polly Pook, the hike at the Pauly Lookout. She's on the Polly Lookout. She's on the Polly Puka hike, and he's currently attacking her. Okay, where, how far is it? The entrance where? We're probably like five minutes into the hike. Really quick it. Okay, what, where, how far is it? How far is it? Or did the entrance? |
| 1:28.3 | We're probably like five minutes into the hike. |
| 1:30.3 | Really quick it. |
| 1:31.3 | Okay, what are you seeing? |
| 1:32.3 | Um, we heard her screaming, help, help me, help me. |
| 1:35.3 | And then we saw men over her and then she crawled out with over her face saying that he's trying to kill her. |
| 1:42.3 | Did she know him? |
| 1:45.6 | I don't know. |
| 1:49.7 | That call placed by one of two women who stumbled upon the scene. |
| 1:52.5 | They found Koenig straddling a bloodied Ariel. |
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