{"id":698774,"date":"2026-04-02T04:05:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T04:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/698774\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T04:05:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T04:05:20","slug":"maui-doctor-accused-of-killing-wife-testifies-in-his-own-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/698774\/","title":{"rendered":"Maui doctor accused of killing wife testifies in his own defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) &#8211; A Maui doctor accused of killing his wife on Oahu trail takes the stand in his own defense. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Gerhardt Konig 47, a Maui anesthesiologist, is accused of attacking his wife, Arielle, during a birthday hike on Oahu. Evidence released on the first day of trial included a photo of Arielle Konig with her head and face covered in blood. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Konig will take the stand in his own defense. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">On March 31, Emile Konig testified his father confessed to trying to kill his stepmother during a FaceTime call following an alleged attack at the Pali Puka Trail on Oahu.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Emile Konig, who was 19 during the incident, took the stand as a key prosecution witness against his father, Gerhardt Konig. Last March, Emile was living with his father and stepmother, Arielle, and two half-siblings in Kahului, Maui.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 Hawaii News Now. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) &#8211; A Maui doctor accused of killing his wife on Oahu trail takes the stand in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":698775,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[292156,292155,292154,36821,50,47369,11085,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-698774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","category-us","tag-arielle-konig","tag-gerhardt-konig","tag-konig","tag-maui","tag-news","tag-oahu","tag-trail","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116333138889471116","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=698774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/698775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}