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Speaker 1: Crime Alard hourly update, Breaking crime News Now.

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Speaker 2: I'm Sidney Sumner. For her thirty sixth birthday, anesthesiologist Gerhart

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Speaker 2: Koonig whisks his engineer wife Arielle away to celebrate her

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Speaker 2: birthday with a romantic getaway. Gerhart secretly plans the vacation,

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Speaker 2: having family members and a hired nanny stay with their

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Speaker 2: two boys. The couple decides to hike a popular trail

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Speaker 2: up a ridge of the Colloal Mountains leading up to

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Speaker 2: the Polypuca, a gorgeous rock formation that frames the east

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Speaker 2: side of a wahoo. The trip is intended to help

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Speaker 2: his tension after months and couples therapy from Gerhart accusing

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Speaker 2: Ariel of infidelity. Ariel denies his accusations but doesn't understand

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Speaker 2: where they're coming from, so she wants her husband's trust back,

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Speaker 2: but it seems Gerhart is only becoming more jealous and

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Speaker 2: abusive since he accused her of an affair. During the

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Speaker 2: romantic birthday hike, Ariel wants to brave it and make

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Speaker 2: it to the top, but when she sees the last

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Speaker 2: uphill stretch, she chooses to stay where she is, waiting

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Speaker 2: for Gerhart as he completes the climb. When Gerhart returns,

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Speaker 2: he grabs a picture of Ariel up in a tree,

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Speaker 2: but suggests the couple get a selfie from the edge

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Speaker 2: of the trail, overlooking o Wahu. Ariel smiles for the photo,

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Speaker 2: but immediately after asks her husband to step forward so

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Speaker 2: she can get away from the edge. As Ariel follows

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Speaker 2: her husband, he suddenly turns, grabs her upper arms and

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Speaker 2: pushes her towards the edge, telling her quote, get back

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Speaker 2: over there. I'm so sick of you. At first, Ariel

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Speaker 2: thinks Gerhart is playing, but when he shoves her toward

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Speaker 2: the edge of the cliff again, fear sets in Ariel,

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Speaker 2: now believing her husband is trying to kill her. Ariel

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Speaker 2: dives to the ground away from the edge, and her

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Speaker 2: husband is immediately on her, pinning her down. The anestegiologist

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Speaker 2: pulls a syringe in vial from his bag and attempts

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Speaker 2: to fill the syringe to inject her. Ariel manages to

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Speaker 2: knock the syringe from Koenig's hands, and the doctor briefly

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Speaker 2: digs in his back again, possibly looking for another then

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Speaker 2: he changes his mind. Instead reaching for a rock. Konig

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Speaker 2: bashes his wife in the head repeatedly. Our friends at

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Speaker 2: crime Online have more on how Ariel escaped.

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Speaker 3: Ariel struggles against her husband's vicious attack and tries to

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Speaker 3: shield her face with her hands. Konig tries swinging, crushing

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Speaker 3: Ariel's thumb with the rock. Ariel starts screaming for help,

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Speaker 3: and a pair of hikers rush up the trail after

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Speaker 3: hearing her cries. The hikers approach and starts shouting at Konig,

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Speaker 3: who immediately stops hitting Ariel, drops the rock and takes

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Speaker 3: off down the trail. Ariel weakly crawls toward her rescuers,

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Speaker 3: sobbing he tried to kill me. As they die on

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Speaker 1: Gearheart Koenig takes off into the woods, covered in blood

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Speaker 1: from their brutal attack on his wife. Koenig facetimes his

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Speaker 1: adult son, Emil, who is shocked and concerned from his

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Speaker 1: father's appearance. Koenig tries to explain what happened, but stops

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Speaker 1: mid sentence and says, I just tried to kill ari

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Speaker 1: but she got away. Koenig also tells Emil he wants

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Speaker 1: to jump off the cliffs and kill himself.

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Speaker 2: More Crime and Justice news After this, when first responders arrive,

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Speaker 2: Ariel is still conscious enough to tell police her husband

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Speaker 2: attacked her. After a six hour manhunt, Gerhardt Koenig is

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Speaker 2: located and arrested for attempted murder. Despite his incarceration with

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Speaker 2: no bond, Ariel Koenig petitions a Maui court forever straining order,

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Speaker 2: trying to protect herself and her two young sons. Ariel's

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Speaker 2: statement reveals the chilling details of Koenig's attack, including his

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Speaker 2: FaceTime to adult son Emial. Once again, Dave Mack has

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Speaker 2: the details.

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Speaker 3: Ariel's petition for a restraining order against her husband reveals

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Speaker 3: the harrowing details of Koenig's attack on his wife and

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Speaker 3: the mother of his children. Ariel says she has no

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Speaker 3: idea what was in the vile Koenig tried to inject

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Speaker 3: her with, but fears it was deadly medication stolen from

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Speaker 3: his workplace. Ariel also claims Koenig told his adult's son

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Speaker 3: that he tried to kill her just minutes after the attack.

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Speaker 3: Ariel has little explanation for why Koenig tried to kill her,

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Speaker 3: theorizing it stems from his belief she had an affair.

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Speaker 3: Ariel writes in her filing that her en has recently

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Speaker 3: physically and sexually abused her.

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Speaker 2: Ariel has now returned home to Maui, reportedly focused on

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Speaker 2: healing and asking for privacy.

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Speaker 4: I heard that she had gotten some stitches and she

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Speaker 4: was not in a good state, but that she was

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Speaker 4: going to pull through, and so that's.

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Speaker 2: Good friend and housekeeper to the Koenigs. Christina Ferguson spoke

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Speaker 2: to Kohn two about the couple's relationship, saying she was

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Speaker 2: shocked by Gerhardt's behavior and would have never expected it

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Speaker 2: from the friendly father.

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Speaker 4: When you walk into their home, you felt the happiness,

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Speaker 4: you felt the love, and in the atmosphere in like

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Speaker 4: like I said, it's just shocking.

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Speaker 2: Coworkers at Maui Memorial Hospital echo those sentiments, also calling

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Speaker 2: Koenig friendly and reserved. Among the allegations Koenig has had

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Speaker 2: his privileges that Maui Health Hospitals revoked, Maui Health released

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Speaker 2: his statement confirming Koenig is suspended pending the results of

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Speaker 2: the investigation and clarified that Koenig is an independent content

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Speaker 2: tractor and never worked for the hospital directly. For more

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Speaker 2: on Gerhart Koenig's terrifying attack on his wife and the

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Speaker 2: mother of his children. Tune into Crime Stories with Nancy

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Speaker 2: Sumner