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GUILTY: Hawaii Anesthesiologist Faces 20 Years for Cliffside Attack | Crime Alert 04.09.26 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alart hourly update, breaking crime news.
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  Speaker 2: Now. I'm Sidney Sumner from Honolulu. A verdict has finally
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  Speaker 2: come down in a case that turned a scenic birthday
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  Speaker 2: hike into a bloody struggle for survival on Oahu's cliffs.
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  Speaker 2: A jury has found anesthesiologist Gerhardt Koenig guilty of attempted
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  Speaker 2: manslaughter for a brutal attack on his wife Ariel along
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  Speaker 2: the Polypuka Trail. Now, this wasn't the second degree attempted
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  Speaker 2: murder conviction prosecutors were gunning for. After eight hours of deliberation,
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  Speaker 2: the jury opted for the lesser charge, citing extreme mental
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  Speaker 2: or emotional disturbance. The facts of March twenty fourth, twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty five are harrowing. What was supposed to be a
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  Speaker 2: birthday hike ended with Ariel Koenig fighting for her life.
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  Speaker 2: She testified that her husband looked her in the eye,
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  Speaker 2: said Hugh, you're done, and tried to hurl her off
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  Speaker 2: a cliff before bashing her head with a rock.
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  Speaker 1: Hi, I'm currently being attractive Polypuca. Where there's a man
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  Speaker 1: trying to kill her? She's led all over her face.
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  Speaker 1: Where is his dad?
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  Speaker 2: Polly Puka?
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  Speaker 1: The hike out Okay, so Polly, look out, she's on
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  Speaker 1: the Polly Puka hike and he's currently attacking her. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: where how far is the hike? Guards the entrance wire,
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  Speaker 1: We're probably like five minutes into the hike really quickly. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: what are you seeing? We heard her streaming help help me,
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  Speaker 1: and then we saw that over her and then she
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  Speaker 1: crawled out with over her face say I'm trying to
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  Speaker 1: kill her and did I know him?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know That call placed by one of two
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  Speaker 2: women who stumbled upon the scene. They found Koenig straddling
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  Speaker 2: a blood Ariel. Prosecutor Joel Garner told the jury the
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  Speaker 2: attack was so violent pieces of the rock actually broke
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  Speaker 2: off into Aeriel scalp. Throughout the three week trial, the
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  Speaker 2: defense painted a very different picture. Gerhard took the stand himself,
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  Speaker 2: claiming he was the victim that Ariel tried to push
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  Speaker 2: him off a cliff during a selfie and hit him
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  Speaker 2: with a rock first. His attorney, Thomas O'take, slammed the prosecution,
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  Speaker 2: accusing them of spinning a he said she said story
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  Speaker 2: to fit a predetermined theory. But the jury heard a
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  Speaker 2: different story from Koenig's own son, A meal. He testified
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  Speaker 2: that his father called him on FaceTime right after the
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  Speaker 2: incident and confessed, saying Ariel had been cheating on him
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  Speaker 2: and that he had tried to kill her. The motive
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  Speaker 2: a crumbling marriage. In an emotional affair Ariel was having
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  Speaker 2: with a coworker, Ariel described a home life defined by
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  Speaker 2: Koenig's controlling behavior in constant demands for physical intimacy. As
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  Speaker 2: a verdict was read Wednesday, Gerhard Koenig dropped his head
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  Speaker 2: into his hands, Facing up to twenty years in prison
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  Speaker 2: for Ariel, the chapter is closing. She has filed for divorce,
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  Speaker 2: surviving a birthday hike that was nearly her last. More
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  Speaker 2: crime and justice news after this. In Ohio, a terrifying
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  Speaker 2: Easter Sunday encounter was caught in vivid detail on a
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  Speaker 2: home security system When I Am in Warren County. The
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  Speaker 2: Miller family was in bed when their cameras showed a
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  Speaker 2: car pulling into their driveway headlights killed. The footage shows
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  Speaker 2: a man later identified as twenty three year old Anthony Long,
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  Speaker 2: getting out of his car and kneeling in the driveway
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  Speaker 2: to pray. He then approaches the front door once twice,
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  Speaker 2: pounding louder each time. The homeowner, Tiffany Miller, says she
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  Speaker 2: woke up thinking her daughter was locked out, but when
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  Speaker 2: her daughter actually arrived home moments later, the stranger was
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  Speaker 2: still there, sitting in this car. That's when Tiffany's husband, Andy,
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  Speaker 2: stepped outside to confront him.
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  Speaker 1: Hi, Bud, knocking on door.
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  Speaker 2: I'll kill.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Okay, Cathy go.
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  Speaker 2: Following that explicit threat, Tiffany says, Long pulled a knife
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  Speaker 2: on her husband and eventually sped off in pursuit of
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  Speaker 2: their daughter, who had luckily already fled the scene. Authorities
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  Speaker 2: caught up with Long shortly after at a nearby gas station.
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  Speaker 2: He's now behind bars at the Warren County Jail, facing
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  Speaker 2: a string of charges including aggravated menacing, trespassing, and criminal damage.
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  Speaker 2: While the religious language used during the attack is disturbing,
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  Speaker 2: the Millers are just thankful they walked away physically unharmed
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  Speaker 2: from what they describe as a deep, frightening, random act
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  Speaker 2: of violence. Long is currently being held on a seventy
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  Speaker 2: five thousand dollars cash only bond for the Franklin Township incident,
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  Speaker 2: with additional charges pending from a separate road rage call
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  Speaker 2: that same night. Baltimore Police are asking for the public's
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  Speaker 2: help to find twenty seven year old at Branson Odoor.
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  Speaker 2: The accountant vanished early Saturday, April fourth, after leaving a
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  Speaker 2: Fells Point bar alone, having been separated from friends celebrating
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  Speaker 2: March Madness. Surveillance video shows Odor stumbling out of the
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  Speaker 2: horse you came in on saloon around two am, wearing
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  Speaker 2: a tan shirt and hat. Police recently recovered his electric
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  Speaker 2: bike in Harbor East, but Odoor remains missing. He is
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  Speaker 2: African American five foot nine, one hundred and fifty pounds.
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  Speaker 2: If you have any information, please call four to one
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  Speaker 2: your favorite podcast app with this crime alert. I'm Sydney Sumner.