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ANNOUNCER 1: Nothing
in all the world
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is more beautiful than
the coast of Hawaii.
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ANNOUNCER 2: As you
shed your city clothes,
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you shed your worries, too.
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When I think of Hawaii,
I think of paradise.
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I think of palm trees.
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I think of warm, sandy beaches.
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ANNIE ELISE: Pretty sunsets
and just beautiful scenery.
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ELIZABETH MILLNER: You
think of relaxation.
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You think of happiness.
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You don't think of that
as the scene of a crime.
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I was saying
something like, please
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help, he's trying to kill me.
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ELIZABETH MILLNER: If you
look at the pictures of them
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together, they look like
a picture-perfect couple.
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JONATHAN WATERS: They had
everything going for them.
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I truly don't understand what
happened, other than passion
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can make people
do strange things.
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What started as a beautiful
birthday hike turned
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into an absolute nightmare.
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CALLER: She has blood
all over her face.
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Sure.
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REPORTER 1: The chilling
story from Hawaii,
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a prominent doctor now
charged with the attempted
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murder of his wife.
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REPORTER 2: 46-year-old
anesthesiologist Gerhardt Konig
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is in custody this morning.
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JONATHAN WATERS: Would it be
hard for an anesthesiologist
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to commit murder?
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I would say no.
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The drugs that we have
typically are intended to take
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you to the edge of death.
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ANNIE ELISE: You have
this successful couple,
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an anesthesiologist
and a nuclear engineer.
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And then you see all of it go
wrong in the blink of an eye.
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SUNNY HOSTIN: The
first time that we
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see Arielle in the courtroom,
you can see her injuries.
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She has Steri-Strips
on her face.
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You see redness around her eye.
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ANA GARCIA: Here they
are, in the middle
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of the most violent
situation with the most
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picturesque backdrop.
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It's just a juxtaposition
of perfection and beauty
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and violence and anger.
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ANNIE ELISE: Allegations
of attempted murder,
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a horrific 911 call, a
bloody trail at the scene.
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Now, Dr. Gerhardt
Konig is on trial
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for the attempted murder in
the second degree of his wife.
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This trial is very
much Konig versus Konig.
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He's saying, like,
fuck you, you're done.
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The evidence will
show he is falsely
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accused of attempted murder.
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NANCY GRACE: Is this a case of
a murderous, scorned husband
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or a calculating, cheating wife?
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The two are not
mutually exclusive.
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This is a story
about betrayal,
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about love lost,
about a couple who
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go off on a romantic
vacation, and one of them
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almost ends up dead.
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Let's see what today
will bring in court.
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The Konig trial is
definitely a telenovela.
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It's riveting to a lot
of people in Hawaii.
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And people have been
coming to the court
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just to hear what's
going on firsthand.
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In recent memory,
the Konig trial
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is really shaping up
to be one of the more
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memorable and noteworthy
trials in Hawaii.
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People are really, you know,
watching with anticipation.
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You know, what's
going to happen next?
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I'm glad I'm in the courtroom
to see all of it unfold.
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Hi.
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Hi.
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Thank you.
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PROSECUTING ATTORNEY:
The evidence will show
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and the state will prove
beyond a reasonable doubt
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that Dr. Gerhardt Konig
consciously, intentionally
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made a choice on March 24,
2025, to try to take a life.
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He says, I'm not
gonna make it back.
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I tried to kill Ari,
but she got away.
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This was an unplanned,
unanticipated scuffle
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that happened between a couple.
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One year ago, they
came to Oahu, the Konigs,
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to celebrate her birthday.
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The day of the incident
was her birthday.
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And now a year later,
on her birthday,
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she's in court testifying
against her husband
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in this murder trial.
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NANCY GRACE: We heard about
her in opening statements.
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She has been the focus of the
case from the very beginning.
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Yes, I do.
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Arielle Konig takes the stand.
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You could hear a pin drop.
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I was screaming as he's
covering my mouth and stuff.
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And then we had this
moment of, like, he seems
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like he takes a deep breath.
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And then he just starts hitting
my face and my head with a rock.
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Hearing from Arielle on the
stand filled in so many gaps,
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answered so many questions.
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And you could see
Gerhardt Konig, Dr. Konig,
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sitting there on the other
side of the courtroom.
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ARIELLE KONIG: He's telling
me, shut the fuck up.
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Nobody's-- nobody's
gonna hear you out here.
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Nobody's coming to save you.
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BRIAN BUCKMIRE: From
the very beginning,
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this case has been
twist after turn,
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where two people are pointing
the finger at each other.
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Is this a case of a husband
with medical precision trying
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to murder his wife or a wife
who engineered this all to try
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to get away from her husband?
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This case is different in
that prosecution and defense,
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they agree on a lot of
the facts of the case.
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They both agree that
there was a scuffle.
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They both agree that
Arielle got injured.
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But what they don't agree on
is who started the scuffle.
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They don't agree on the
extent of the injuries.
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They don't agree that Arielle
was almost killed with a rock.
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And so they certainly don't
agree on the why, either.
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So let's go back
to March 24, 2025.
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BRIAN BUCKMIRE: From
the outside looking in,
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this looks like a
power couple, right?
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We have an anesthesiologist,
you have a nuclear engineer,
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and they've got this beautiful,
blended family from children
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from different marriages.
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I have two little kids
and then my stepson.
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About 6 and 1/2 years.
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So from Arielle's
point of view
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and what's been
described in court
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filings is that she thought this
was just a beautiful weekend
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that her husband had planned.
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CYNTHIA YIP: Pali Lookout
is one of the most
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beautiful spots on Oahu.
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It is a top destination for
tourists and for hikers.
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They've got lookouts so you
can just grab the vista.
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But they're a bit precarious
because the drop is so steep.
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It's like a 1,200-foot
drop at some of the points.
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ANNIE ELISE: However,
according to the prosecution,
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this hike was all a ruse to
get Arielle alone for what they
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describe as attempted murder.
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BRIAN BUCKMIRE:
Gerhardt and Arielle
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went hiking at this location.
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And about five
minutes into the hike
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is where Gerhardt is supposedly
asking Arielle to take photos
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or selfies of the two of them.
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ELIZABETH MILLNER: From what
we know from court filings,
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Arielle explains that they were
kind of close near the cliff.
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She was feeling a
little uneasy being
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so close to the edge that she
just asked her husband, hey,
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can we move?
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And then things take a turn.
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When I walk up to him,
then he grabbed me really
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forcefully by my upper arms.
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And he said, I'm so
fucking sick of this shit.
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Get back over there.
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And he starts pushing me
back towards the cliff.
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I mean, I was surprised.
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It felt almost like he
was kidding at first.
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And I was like,
what are you doing?
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But he-- he had grabbed me
really hard and was moving me.
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So we kind of
wrestled a little bit,
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and I threw myself
onto the ground
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because there's a lot
of trees and shrubs
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there so that I could hold on.
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He got on top of me, and he
was kind of trying to pull me.
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And we were wrestling, and
he ended up straddling me.
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So he had his legs on either
side, kind of across my waist.
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About 5' 6".
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About 145 pounds.
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About 5' 10".
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Maybe 160, 165 pounds.
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She says he suddenly
pulls out a syringe
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and starts to try to
inject her with something.
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Now, she knows that he's
an anesthesiologist.
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And so she says she's
now getting scared.
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She's able to kind
of fight him off.
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She says she's biting his
arm to get him to stop,
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and she's screaming.
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And I see the syringe, and
I just kind of, like, bat
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it away from-- from us both.
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And I'm saying, like,
you can't do this.
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Everyone knows we're on a hike.
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They'll know this
wasn't an accident,
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and our kids will be orphans.
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You'll go to jail,
and I'll be dead.
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Like, you have to stop.
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And again, he's saying,
like, you're done.
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We're done with you.
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We don't need you anymore.
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You're done, you're done.
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No syringe was found
on the mountainside.
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No one saw a syringe
other than Arielle.
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ANA GARCIA: And she says
Gerhardt then grabbed a rock,
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and she says that he was
bashing her head and her face
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with this rock.
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Calling for help,
she's screaming.
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I'm not talking once or twice.
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But 10 times on the head.
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I just started
screaming because I--
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in my mind, he was
trying to knock
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me unconscious to get-- to be
able to drag me over the edge.
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So I just was screaming
then as much as I could.
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My life and the ability
to see my kids again.
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And it's at that point in
time that she's struggling
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and fighting back that two
bystanders show up and see
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the tail end of this struggle.
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SUNNY HOSTIN: They also
feared for their lives
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because they were also
so close to the cliff.
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And so they had to
take a few steps back.
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By their accounts,
this was a very, very
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dangerous and scary encounter.
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She said, please
don't leave me.
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He's trying to kill me.
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Shortly after, she was
crawling towards us.
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On her stomach
and hands and knees.
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I was, but she was
covered in blood.
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Pretty big gashes on
the side of her head.
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ANA GARCIA: I really believe
that if these two women had not
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come along, there's
a strong likelihood
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that something
terrible, even worse
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would have happened to Arielle.
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When the 911 call was played,
you could see that people
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were even more attentive.
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What we had just seen, that
we saw a woman beat that was--
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said that she was
being attacked.
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Yes.
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Approximately 30 seconds.
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It was like a cold,
emotionless stare.
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BRIAN BUCKMIRE: According
to the bystanders,
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they see Gerhardt turning
around and then walking
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further up the mountain.
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The prosecution is
really hammering
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home that Gerhardt tried to
murder Arielle multiple times.
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First, he tries to lure
her to the edge of a cliff
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and push her off.
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Then he tries to inject
her with a syringe.
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And three, by trying to
bash her head in with a rock.
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Authorities
describe her condition
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after this incident
as critical and taken
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to a hospital for treatment.
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ELIZABETH MILLNER: What we
know from court filings,
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according to Arielle Konig,
is that Dr. Gerhardt Konig
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allegedly called Arielle Konig's
stepson, Dr. Gerhardt's son
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from his first marriage, and he
might have allegedly confessed.
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According to court
documents, he says to him,
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I just tried to kill
Ari, and indicates
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that he's now going
to kill himself
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by jumping off the cliff.
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The defendant
told Emil that he
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was turning his phone off so
the police couldn't find him.
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I think that's when
he really broke down.
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That's the only time I really
saw him emotionally break down.
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I mean, who knows what he's
going through as far as his mind
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when he's sitting there?
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BRIAN BUCKMIRE: There becomes
this multi-law enforcement
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search for Gerhardt,
not for just
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a couple minutes or a couple
of hours, but for eight hours.
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DAN ABRAMS: They
find Gerhardt walking
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down this enormous mountain.
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After a brief foot
chase, he's apprehended.
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Shortly after, she not only
filed a restraining order
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to protect herself
and her two sons,
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but she also filed for
divorce from Gerhardt.
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People love to say that
they were the perfect couple,
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and no one had any idea.
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And often-- and
maybe in this case--
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what that means is they
looked very nice together.
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But the reality is,
there were a lot
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of problems brewing
in this relationship
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before this happened.
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[grim music]
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ELIZABETH MILLNER: Prior
to the March 2025 incident,
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there was a lot of tension
between Arielle Konig
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and her husband,
Dr. Gerhardt Konig.
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And we know from court filings
is that Dr. Gerhardt Konig had
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actually accused
his wife of having
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an inappropriate relationship
with another colleague.
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CYNTHIA YIP: Gerhardt says
he finds these text messages
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between Arielle and
a colleague that she
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described as sometimes flirty.
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I-- I was apologetic.
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You know, he was obviously hurt.
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And I was really committed to
my marriage and my husband.
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And so we agreed to work
through it and try to, you know,
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kind of rebuild because I had
definitely broken his trust.
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And I could tell he was hurt.
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It felt like an affair to him.
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So that's he called it,
an emotional affair.
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Emotional affair
is the word, yeah.
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Gerhardt was
gutted by the notion
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that his wife could
be having an affair.
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He was destroyed by it.
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You could see based on court
filings that kind of reveal,
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what he was looking
for at the time.
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He's downloading books, he's
listening to audio books, all,
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like, these self-help
books about how
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to get your relationship back.
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He's researching on
Reddit what to do
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if you find out that your
wife has been cheating on you.
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According to
Arielle, after Gerhardt
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suspects that she's
having an affair,
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he starts trying to control her.
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Gerhardt would kind
of go through my stuff
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at the end of the day to see,
you know, what I was doing,
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so if I was sending emails
or who I was meeting with.
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At the time, Gerhardt
kind of expected
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to have sex every other day.
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December 24 that year.
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That's right.
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No.
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We did a lot of work on
our relationship, yeah.
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We both were doing individual
and couples therapy.
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[poignant music]
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JONATHAN WATERS: So what
do I think about doctors
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that had gone bad?
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I don't think we're any
different than any other people.
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Oh, I think we certainly have
the background and the education
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to know how to kill somebody.
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That's-- [laughs] you know,
as an anesthesiologist,
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you certainly have access to the
drugs that can do it quickly.
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My name is Jonathan Waters.
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I was the chief of
Anesthesia Services
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at Magee-Womens
Hospital, where Gerhardt
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did his residency fellowship.
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My initial impression
of Gerhardt was, I mean,
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he's a good-looking guy.
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He's pleasant, soft-spoken,
very bright, generally likable.
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I mean, I-- he was a good guy.
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He was pretty excited
when he first met Arielle.
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She was anything any guy
could possibly dream about.
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She was gorgeous.
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She was smart.
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She was a nuclear engineer.
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She's very pleasant
to interact with.
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He was overjoyed, I
think, when he met her.
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And I think he was a
bit surprised that she
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had any interest in him.
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When you think about her,
she's the ultimate trophy wife.
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It's like, where is
he ever going to find
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another woman this fantastic?
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JONATHAN WATERS: You
know, it was not like I
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viewed him as being a saint.
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I never saw Gerhardt have a
temper or lose his temper.
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The last time I
saw him and her was
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after she delivered their baby.
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And it seemed like a happy
environment, nothing that
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would lead you to
believe to what was
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going to happen in the future.
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[curious music]
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Mr. Otake, are you ready
to present the defendant's
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opening statement?
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I am, Your Honor.
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This is a long,
complex, human story.
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And I'm going to walk you
through all the details of it
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this morning.
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However, the evidence
will show that this story,
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this human story, can be
summarized best in three words,
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just in summary, three words--
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unfaithful,
unwilling, and untrue.
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SUNNY HOSTIN:
Central to this case
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is the allegation that
Arielle was having
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an affair with her coworker.
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And it's important
to both sides here.
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It's important to
the prosecution,
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and it's important
to the defense.
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So the defense is basically
saying, look, she doesn't
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want to be married to Gerhardt.
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She is the one maybe
that picked the fight
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on the lookout that day.
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On the trail,
they start talking
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about the progress they're
making and things like that.
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And she says, hey,
you know, I need
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you to start trusting me more.
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You know, it's been a while.
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I-- you know, we've
made progress.
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I gotta be able to
travel for work.
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And a part of
that will include
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working with her ex-lover.
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And that is what
starts the argument.
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[grim music]
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SUNNY HOSTIN: The defense is
arguing that she's the one that
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starts hitting
him with the rock,
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and that he reflexively
takes the rock from her
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and hits her back.
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He claims that he hits her
in self-defense, that she
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started the whole thing.
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Medically speaking, from the
medical doctors in this case,
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it's not as bad as it looks.
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She never loses consciousness.
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No risk of death
from the injuries.
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Stitched up, went
home the next day.
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And it was a rock.
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He hit her with a rock
in response to him--
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her hitting him.
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He's stunned about
what happened.
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He's in shock.
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They-- he doesn't go after them.
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They go down.
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And he immediately goes into
almost a despondent state.
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He
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Realizes his marriage is over.
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He realizes-- she's yelling
to them, call the police,
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he's trying to kill me.
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He realizes his career
could very well be over.
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He saw that she was hurt.
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And you hear he
was disappointed.
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He was remorseful.
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He was upset about
the whole incident.
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He never wanted it
to come to that.
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ANNIE ELISE: The defense tried
to poke holes in the testimony
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of the two hikers.
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They argued that these hikers
don't have the whole picture,
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that they didn't
see the altercation,
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that they only saw
a moment in time
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and heard Arielle's
version of the story.
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Did you pick the wrong
person out of the photo lineup
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initially?
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SARAH BUCHSBAUM: Yes.
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Correct.
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Correct.
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Correct.
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NANCY GRACE: At the
get-go, the defense
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is between a rock
and a hard spot
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here because there
are witnesses that
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see their client
on top of Arielle,
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beating her in the
head with a rock.
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So what can they do?
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They're claiming self-defense.
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They're basically claiming,
nanny-nanny boo-boo,
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she started it.
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And I finished it.
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CYNTHIA YIP: When the defense
attorney got his moment
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to cross-examine
Arielle, he really
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pressed her on this emotional
affair, as she called it.
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That's right.
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I did delete a
lot of messages.
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That's correct.
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It was for Gerhardt
specifically.
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But, yes, that's correct.
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CYNTHIA YIP: And
then a bombshell--
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the defense brought up a
surprising piece of information,
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an email she sent to her doctor.
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Yes, sir.
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Correct, that was the
purpose of the email.
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DEFENSE ATTORNEY: I apologize.
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For her notes for the
31st, that's correct.
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I-- I'm not aware.
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[curious music]
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Hey, everyone.
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Welcome back to an all-new
episode of Serialously,
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with me, your host, Annie Elise.
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When I first covered
this case on my podcast,
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everybody wanted to know how
something like this could
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happen, how a trusted
anesthesiologist could
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potentially be responsible
for trying to murder
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his young 36-year-old wife.
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This one is a wild one.
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I know a lot of you
have been following it.
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This case has also taken
social media by storm.
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He tried to push her off.
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He should be in prison
serving a life sentence.
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ANNIE ELISE: Out of all of
the cases that I've covered,
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this one is difficult to forget
because while it does look
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like it's a clear-cut
case on the surface,
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there is so much we don't know.
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Thank you so much for tuning
in to another case with me.
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I will be back on the mic with
you first thing Monday morning.
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But until then, be nice.
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Don't kill people.
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[grim music]
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CYNTHIA YIP: This is a
very complicated case.
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The jurors are going
to have to make
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this very difficult decision.
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BRIAN BUCKMIRE: If
convicted, Gerhardt
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is facing life in prison with
the possibility of parole,
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creating this very large window
for how many years in prison
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he could actually face.
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You know, doctors swear to
do no harm in their practice
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when they care for people.
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Stories like this
one make everybody
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question themselves
of, do I really
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know who I'm sleeping next to?
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Do I know who I'm married to?
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Could this happen to me?
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I have been asked,
why are people so
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interested in the Konig case?
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Well, it goes back
to time immemorial,
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to Adam and Eve, Cain and
Abel, the first murder.
497
00:26:57,967 --> 00:27:02,043
People are captivated by
what they don't understand.
498
00:27:02,143 --> 00:27:06,652
They try to make logic out
of an illogical situation,
499
00:27:06,752 --> 00:27:08,222
and they can't.
500
00:27:08,322 --> 00:27:09,491
That's the fascination.
501
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[grim music]
502
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[theme music]
503
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[audio logo]