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- 0:01Speaker 1: Hi, guys, welcome to Legally Brunette Presents Till Death Do
- 0:06Speaker 1: Us Part, where we break down cases of wives committing
- 0:11Speaker 1: crimes against husbands and the husbands against.
- 0:14Speaker 2: Wives, namely homicide.
- 0:17Speaker 1: Mostly homicide, yes, and I felt like if we ever
- 0:20Speaker 1: ran out of homicide cases, we could move into you know,
- 0:22Speaker 1: attempted murder other types of things. But there doesn't seem
- 0:25Speaker 1: to be a lack of homicide cases out there.
- 0:28Speaker 2: So it's not an economy driven crime.
- 0:31Speaker 1: There's a lot. So anyway, I'll be your host, Emily Simpson,
- 0:36Speaker 1: along with my co pilot over here, Shane and Shange.
- 0:40Speaker 1: I know you guys can't see, but he's drinking a
- 0:42Speaker 1: big gulp in just in case you were wondering visually
- 0:44Speaker 1: what Shane looks like at the moment. Oh. Also, by
- 0:48Speaker 1: the way, before we get into this, a lot of
- 0:50Speaker 1: you guys send me dms, which I love about the podcast.
- 0:53Speaker 1: And first of all, the first takeaway I have is
- 0:55Speaker 1: that so many of you have said that you enjoy
- 0:58Speaker 1: Shane because he's been talking a lot more and has
- 1:01Speaker 1: a lot more opinions and you love to hear him talk,
- 1:04Speaker 1: and I appreciate that.
- 1:05Speaker 2: But the second I got a lot of dms about
- 1:08Speaker 2: it's because you're talking less.
- 1:10Speaker 1: Okay, I got a lot of dms about how funny
- 1:13Speaker 1: people thought you were. That you just I don't know
- 1:16Speaker 1: that you you have the your fascination, your hate fascination
- 1:20Speaker 1: with Megan Markle.
- 1:22Speaker 2: Yeah as ever, Yeah, how's that going? And I should
- 1:27Speaker 2: order some jam.
- 1:28Speaker 1: And some wickless candles.
- 1:32Speaker 2: Wickless candles is just wax. Do you want a cup
- 1:36Speaker 2: of wax? Yes, that's all she's sold. Yes.
- 1:39Speaker 1: Do you have any new hatred towards her or not
- 1:42Speaker 1: seeing anything lately? Okay, Well for the next podcast, could
- 1:44Speaker 1: you please could you please watch some maybe some Instagram
- 1:47Speaker 1: stories of her so we could get your feedback.
- 1:49Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, just me. Netflix doesn't want her.
- 1:52Speaker 1: Either, Yeah, it's you and Netflix. Did Netflix reach out
- 1:55Speaker 1: to you and ask you.
- 1:56Speaker 2: How you found about the podcast flopped?
- 1:58Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, Well she's just a flaw fall around right.
- 2:01Speaker 2: Yeah, she's trying to be she's trying to buy her
- 2:04Speaker 2: way to be the next Martha Stewart and it's not
- 2:06Speaker 2: working out.
- 2:06Speaker 1: You can't buy your way to that. You just have
- 2:09Speaker 1: to be that.
- 2:10Speaker 2: Yes, that's right, you earn it all.
- 2:12Speaker 1: Right, So today we are going to get into the
- 2:15Speaker 1: case of Gerhard Koenig and his wife Ariel Koenig. And
- 2:18Speaker 1: if you have been following a court TV at all,
- 2:21Speaker 1: or the news or my news source Instagram, you would
- 2:25Speaker 1: see that this case is on trial right now. Also,
- 2:29Speaker 1: we did an episode a year ago on Legally Brunette,
- 2:32Speaker 1: but it was a brief overview of this case because
- 2:34Speaker 1: it when it first came out and it came out publicly,
- 2:38Speaker 1: there wasn't a lot of information. Now that he is
- 2:40Speaker 1: going to trial, we were following along with the trial.
- 2:43Speaker 1: So we're going to take another deep dive into this.
- 2:45Speaker 1: And also it has to do with a husband trying
- 2:48Speaker 1: to murder his wife, so it works out well for
- 2:51Speaker 1: it till death do his part. Gerhard Koenig as a
- 2:54Speaker 1: forty seven year old Maui anethesiologist who was arrested back
- 2:58Speaker 1: in twenty twenty four in connection with the attempt murder
- 3:00Speaker 1: of his wife while the couple was hiking together in Hawaii.
- 3:05Speaker 1: According to investigators, doctor Koenig allegedly pushed his wife Ariel.
- 3:10Speaker 1: She's thirty seven year old. She's a nuclear scientist. Did
- 3:12Speaker 1: you know that?
- 3:14Speaker 2: Yeah? I did. Actually she was a stay at home
- 3:16Speaker 2: nuclear scientist, stay.
- 3:18Speaker 1: At what's the same nuclear science.
- 3:20Speaker 2: I can stay home mom, but I think she used
- 3:21Speaker 2: to be a nuclear scientist.
- 3:22Speaker 1: Yeah, that's like when it's like, you know.
- 3:25Speaker 2: Your jobbing that remotely.
- 3:26Speaker 1: I don't think you don't think you need to work
- 3:29Speaker 1: from home as a nuclear well, I mean, I guess
- 3:31Speaker 1: if you're in front of a computer. But I don't
- 3:32Speaker 1: even know what nuclear scientist means. It sounds very scientific
- 3:37Speaker 1: and intelligent.
- 3:38Speaker 2: Yes, it is so.
- 3:40Speaker 1: He allegedly pushed his wife Ariel toreed a cliff, tried
- 3:44Speaker 1: to inject her with a syringe, and struck her repeatedly
- 3:46Speaker 1: with a lava rock. Luckily, his wife survived this attack
- 3:50Speaker 1: and can live to tell her story, which is what
- 3:52Speaker 1: she's doing now during the trial. We watched her testimony
- 3:56Speaker 1: last night.
- 3:56Speaker 2: Lava rocks are sharp, Yeah, extremely m we'll.
- 4:01Speaker 1: Get into that. Gerhard Cone ask me how I know.
- 4:04Speaker 1: How do you know?
- 4:05Speaker 2: Because I climbed a volcano.
- 4:06Speaker 1: Once you climbed a volcano?
- 4:08Speaker 2: Yes?
- 4:08Speaker 1: Where?
- 4:09Speaker 2: And the rock is sharp?
- 4:10Speaker 1: Where do you climb a volcano?
- 4:12Speaker 2: In Cape verd the Cape Verdon Islands where I lived
- 4:14Speaker 2: for almost a year, there was active volcanoes and the
- 4:18Speaker 2: whole island it was ash and then when you walk
- 4:20Speaker 2: on the beach, it was it was black sand because
- 4:24Speaker 2: it was ash or volcanic rock, and it's very sharp.
- 4:27Speaker 2: You couldn't really walk barefoot.
- 4:29Speaker 1: Was it an active volcano that was here.
- 4:31Speaker 2: Smoke coming out all the time? Yes?
- 4:33Speaker 1: Okay. Do you want to explain why you spent a
- 4:36Speaker 1: year in Cape Baird?
- 4:37Speaker 2: Well, I was on a church mission, yes, for my church,
- 4:39Speaker 2: and it covered Portugal and Cape Verdan Islands.
- 4:43Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 4:44Speaker 2: I was in Portugal for a year and then Cape
- 4:45Speaker 2: Verd for a year.
- 4:46Speaker 1: Do you speak Portuguese?
- 4:47Speaker 2: Yes?
- 4:48Speaker 1: What do you speak in Cape Baird Creolo? Do you
- 4:51Speaker 1: speak that?
- 4:52Speaker 2: Yes?
- 4:53Speaker 1: I love I love getting these little Shane somesing anecdotes.
- 4:56Speaker 2: You knew.
- 4:56Speaker 1: I was just asking because I know that the audience
- 4:59Speaker 1: did a lot so.
- 5:01Speaker 2: A little rusty.
- 5:01Speaker 1: All right, back to doctor Koenig. We'll just take it.
- 5:04Speaker 2: If you ever want to take a trip to a
- 5:05Speaker 2: third world country, yes, we can go to the Cape
- 5:08Speaker 2: Urian Islands.
- 5:09Speaker 1: Okay, Well, I do talk about field trips for legally Brunette,
- 5:12Speaker 1: but I don't know if a crime has taken place there.
- 5:15Speaker 2: Crimes there?
- 5:16Speaker 1: Oh yeah, well we should look one up and talk
- 5:17Speaker 1: about it. Koenig has pleaded not guilty and faces a
- 5:20Speaker 1: charge of attempted second degree murder and if convicted, he
- 5:24Speaker 1: could face life in prison. Let's just go back and
- 5:28Speaker 1: take a little dive into this timeline and the details
- 5:31Speaker 1: of what actually.
- 5:32Speaker 2: Life and it should be life in prison, because even
- 5:34Speaker 2: if he didn't succeed murdering her, you don't want this
- 5:37Speaker 2: guy on the loose. Well, here's the thing and do
- 5:39Speaker 2: it again. And who's who would want a data guy
- 5:42Speaker 2: like this?
- 5:42Speaker 1: Like?
- 5:43Speaker 2: Oh, oh you were married before? Oh what happened? How
- 5:46Speaker 2: did why did it work out?
- 5:47Speaker 1: What do you mean? Who would want a dat a
- 5:48Speaker 1: guy like this? We have had so many conversations about
- 5:52Speaker 1: these You.
- 5:54Speaker 2: Women will date murders.
- 5:57Speaker 1: Yes, I just saw an update. As I was researching
- 6:01Speaker 1: and looking at this case, some other information came up
- 6:06Speaker 1: about Wade Wilson and it was another woman that he
- 6:10Speaker 1: was in some serious relationship with. It was talking about
- 6:12Speaker 1: how they were going to get married, and then they
- 6:14Speaker 1: were making references to Wade's wife. So, you know, even
- 6:19Speaker 1: if for some reason, but.
- 6:20Speaker 2: He's in jail, and I think that's an appeal to
- 6:23Speaker 2: those people, for whatever psycho reason, that's the appeal to them.
- 6:28Speaker 2: If this guy's out on the street, you know, like regular,
- 6:33Speaker 2: and you're at a restaurant with him, and then you
- 6:36Speaker 2: you google him and you come to learn that he
- 6:38Speaker 2: tried to kill his wife. Yeah, well yeah, you're not
- 6:41Speaker 2: going to pursue that relationship.
- 6:42Speaker 1: Well someone will will, someone will, but he is not
- 6:47Speaker 1: going to claim that he tried to kill his wife.
- 6:48Speaker 1: We know that the defense is trying to say.
- 6:51Speaker 2: He's a weak man and she tried to hit him.
- 6:53Speaker 1: With you, they were just having a volatile relationship on
- 6:57Speaker 1: their hike, and that she attacked him and that he
- 6:59Speaker 1: was just you know, he was it was self defense.
- 7:02Speaker 2: All right. So they're on a cliff.
- 7:04Speaker 1: Well, let's get let's get it to it. So March
- 7:07Speaker 1: twenty fourth of twenty twenty five, so this was actually
- 7:09Speaker 1: one year ago, the couple were celebrating Ariel's birthday in Oahu, Hawaii.
- 7:13Speaker 1: This comes after a month long rough patch after Ariel
- 7:18Speaker 1: admitted to having an emotional affair with her coworker.
- 7:21Speaker 2: There's still such thing as an emotional affair.
- 7:24Speaker 1: I was just going to ask you how you feel
- 7:25Speaker 1: about when people define something as an emotional affair. You
- 7:28Speaker 1: know what emotional affair means? Emotional affair means I didn't
- 7:32Speaker 1: have sex with them.
- 7:33Speaker 2: I don't even know if it means that.
- 7:35Speaker 1: It does, it means I know emotional, Yes, it is
- 7:38Speaker 1: emotional affairs. Cover up no an emotional by saying emotional affair,
- 7:43Speaker 1: that means that we were just connecting and texting.
- 7:46Speaker 2: It was sex if it truly was an emotional affair,
- 7:51Speaker 2: but I'm sorry it wasn't. I don't even know these people.
- 7:55Speaker 2: What I'm telling you, it likely wasn't, probably not.
- 7:58Speaker 1: She probably did have sex with him. But I'm saying
- 8:00Speaker 1: when people classify an affair as an emotional affair, that's
- 8:04Speaker 1: their way of trying to say they didn't physically. There
- 8:07Speaker 1: wasn't any physicality going on. They were just connecting like soulmates,
- 8:11Speaker 1: not having sex. That's what emotional affair means. You can
- 8:16Speaker 1: say it's a BS all day long.
- 8:17Speaker 2: I'm just saying all day long.
- 8:26Speaker 1: Okay. So they were hiking the Palipuka Trail, a narrow
- 8:29Speaker 1: cliff side path that stands twelve hundred feet high, according
- 8:33Speaker 1: to police reports. In Ariel's initial statement, Gerhard had asked
- 8:36Speaker 1: her to take a selfie near the cliff's edge. When
- 8:41Speaker 1: she declined because she felt very unsafe, he allegedly became
- 8:47Speaker 1: very angry. I mean, can you just first of all,
- 8:49Speaker 1: I'm picturing this in my mind where he's like, let's
- 8:52Speaker 1: take a selfie. No, no, no, backup, no, be within
- 8:57Speaker 1: six inches off the edge. Back more war So anyway,
- 9:01Speaker 1: I know during her testimony we were watching, she says
- 9:03Speaker 1: that she felt so unsafe that she grabbed onto a tree.
- 9:05Speaker 1: And she's holding onto a tree, right, And I'm sure
- 9:09Speaker 1: when she grabs that was not part of his plan.
- 9:11Speaker 1: I'm sure when she is holding onto this tree, he's like, well, now,
- 9:16Speaker 1: how am I going to throw her off the edge?
- 9:19Speaker 1: She's anchored herself down. So he allegedly becomes very upset
- 9:24Speaker 1: that she doesn't want to keep getting closer to the
- 9:26Speaker 1: edge and she's holding onto a tree. She claims during
- 9:29Speaker 1: her testimony that he goes up to her and he
- 9:30Speaker 1: like grabs her by the shoulders, and then at the
- 9:33Speaker 1: next point, I guess he tries to push her towards
- 9:36Speaker 1: the edge, and that they struggle with each other and
- 9:39Speaker 1: then she actually falls to the ground. I think that's
- 9:42Speaker 1: the way she saves herself.
- 9:43Speaker 2: First, he says, I'm sick of this.
- 9:45Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm sick of this. I'm sick of you. Yeah,
- 9:48Speaker 1: so they go from having a lovely walk on her birthday.
- 9:51Speaker 1: I guess even that morning he gave her a birthday
- 9:54Speaker 1: card that had like all these nice things written.
- 9:56Speaker 2: And was creating a story.
- 9:58Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it was.
- 9:59Speaker 2: It was like and he had dinner reservations and this
- 10:03Speaker 2: is a great moment. So he could be like, look,
- 10:04Speaker 2: I just why would I throw her off? So then
- 10:13Speaker 2: when he comes.
- 10:14Speaker 1: Becomes aggressive with her and he like grabs her and
- 10:16Speaker 1: he's like, I'm sick of this and I'm sick of
- 10:18Speaker 1: you and.
- 10:18Speaker 2: We're done with you. I like, go the tree.
- 10:23Speaker 1: This is when she ends up on the ground. I
- 10:24Speaker 1: assume that she went to the ground because she knows
- 10:26Speaker 1: she's close to the edge. The way to feel.
- 10:29Speaker 2: Safe is to like, yeah, lower center gravity, right.
- 10:32Speaker 1: And she's holding onto like shrubbery and bushes.
- 10:35Speaker 2: That's exactly what she just grabbed, right.
- 10:37Speaker 1: So then he ends up getting on top of her.
- 10:41Speaker 1: He's strattling her, right, he's sitting, he's on top of her,
- 10:45Speaker 1: and then they're struggling and he and she's screaming, help me,
- 10:49Speaker 1: help me. He's trying to kill me. And then he
- 10:52Speaker 1: ends up picking up a rock, and we know it's
- 10:54Speaker 1: a lava rock and like what you just said was,
- 10:56Speaker 1: they're very sharp. And he starts bashing her in the
- 11:00Speaker 1: head with this lava rock and she's screaming, and she's
- 11:04Speaker 1: screaming for help. She claims that he struck her head repeatedly,
- 11:08Speaker 1: reportedly about ten blows, while also grabbing her hair and
- 11:12Speaker 1: forcing her down so she's on the ground. He's strattling
- 11:15Speaker 1: on top of her.
- 11:16Speaker 2: She fought, yeah, she fought back good. Yeah, she and
- 11:21Speaker 2: she even grabbed him in the nuts.
- 11:23Speaker 1: She did, She says she she bit him, She bit
- 11:27Speaker 1: his forearm, and she grabs his testicles, is what she said. Yeah, yeah, because.
- 11:31Speaker 2: She was good for her. She was doing everything she
- 11:34Speaker 2: could to not let him take over her.
- 11:36Speaker 1: Right. She also claims that she was trying to reason
- 11:41Speaker 1: with him the same time, because she was saying.
- 11:42Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, don't do this, I'm going to die jail
- 11:46Speaker 2: or kids will be orphans.
- 11:48Speaker 1: Right, And she said that he took a brief pause.
- 11:52Speaker 2: Before, but yes, but then he no, he took up.
- 11:54Speaker 2: She said it looked like he took a brief pause,
- 11:58Speaker 2: took a breath, like he was almost reflecting on what
- 12:01Speaker 2: she said. Yeah, but then he just grabbed some rocks
- 12:03Speaker 2: and just bashed her in the head right.
- 12:05Speaker 1: Or he might that might have been the point where
- 12:07Speaker 1: she also claims that he was trying that he grabbed
- 12:09Speaker 1: a syringe, and he had a syringe in his hand,
- 12:12Speaker 1: and I guess in his other hand he had a
- 12:13Speaker 1: vial of some kind of liquid. This is what she
- 12:16Speaker 1: she claims. And she says that she hid his hand
- 12:20Speaker 1: and the syringe flew out of his hand. But while
- 12:23Speaker 1: while all this is going on, she manages to start
- 12:26Speaker 1: to crawl away, and her screams were heard by two
- 12:29Speaker 1: hikers who found her injured. We also saw the testimony
- 12:33Speaker 1: of one of those hikers that testified in court. She
- 12:37Speaker 1: just claims that she and a friend went walking that
- 12:39Speaker 1: morning at like she even knew the time. She said
- 12:40Speaker 1: it was like ten twenty two am or whatever. Helped me,
- 12:43Speaker 1: help me help, yeah, And they just they went up
- 12:45Speaker 1: the entrance to this Palipuca hike and they said they
- 12:49Speaker 1: hadn't gone They were only on the trail for maybe
- 12:50Speaker 1: five minutes or something, which also makes me think what
- 12:54Speaker 1: was his his intent. He must have just felt like
- 12:57Speaker 1: he could have pushed her quickly off of the edge,
- 12:59Speaker 1: because this is a public this isn't a This is
- 13:02Speaker 1: like a popular.
- 13:03Speaker 2: But obviously going to be. We were taking photos and
- 13:05Speaker 2: she fell over, right.
- 13:06Speaker 1: So that's why he was trying to get her to
- 13:07Speaker 1: back up as so she could to the edge, and
- 13:09Speaker 1: he was just going to push her off that.
- 13:10Speaker 2: I didn't matter if there was people around, as long
- 13:12Speaker 2: as they didn't see him actually shove it, right.
- 13:14Speaker 1: But then she ruined his plans by not backing all
- 13:16Speaker 1: the way up and grabbing onto.
- 13:17Speaker 2: The tree, plans by being a smart woman.
- 13:19Speaker 1: So she manages us to crawl away. Her screams are
- 13:22Speaker 1: heard by the two hikers we were talking about, who
- 13:23Speaker 1: then called nine one one. Gerhardt fled the scene, but
- 13:27Speaker 1: was later located and arrested by police. Now here's my question,
- 13:32Speaker 1: because I kept looking this up because I was confused
- 13:34Speaker 1: about this. I do know that they recovered the rock
- 13:39Speaker 1: that he used to hit her in the head with
- 13:42Speaker 1: it because they had blood on it, and obviously they're
- 13:44Speaker 1: going to prove that it has you know, his DNA
- 13:47Speaker 1: and her blood and her DNA, all those things to
- 13:49Speaker 1: corroborate her story of what happened. But also I was
- 13:53Speaker 1: trying to find information about whether the syringe and the
- 13:56Speaker 1: vial were recovered at the scene. The syringe was not
- 13:59Speaker 1: I thought it wasn't, and neither was whatever the vile
- 14:02Speaker 1: liquid is neither.
- 14:03Speaker 2: I think neither were. Some of his items, like his
- 14:06Speaker 2: wallet and his phone were not either, right, so made
- 14:09Speaker 2: me think somehow he ditched it or he succeeded.
- 14:13Speaker 1: My question is because she claims in her testimony that
- 14:16Speaker 1: he had the syringe in his hand and that she,
- 14:19Speaker 1: you know, hit his hand and it flew. He had
- 14:22Speaker 1: to have quickly recovered it and then left the scene. Well,
- 14:27Speaker 1: I guess while she was crawling she said she had
- 14:29Speaker 1: to crab crawl. You know what crab crawl is.
- 14:32Speaker 2: Crawl like crab were your back.
- 14:34Speaker 1: Like you know what I mean, Like you were crawling.
- 14:36Speaker 2: She's scooting on her butt.
- 14:37Speaker 1: Yeah, she's crab crawling away. And then I think when
- 14:41Speaker 1: when he realizes that there's people that have seen them
- 14:44Speaker 1: and are saying, we're calling nine to one one, we're
- 14:46Speaker 1: going to get you help, he had to have grabbed
- 14:48Speaker 1: the syringe and vile. Oh.
- 14:50Speaker 2: Yeah. He as an opportunity to think, Okay, I'm not
- 14:51Speaker 2: getting old, she's not dead, I'm not getting away with this.
- 14:54Speaker 2: So he cleaned up.
- 14:55Speaker 1: But he didn't take the rock, but.
- 14:56Speaker 2: I don't well the others, I don't know anyway.
- 15:00Speaker 1: I was not recovered from the actual scene. I did
- 15:04Speaker 1: read that Ariel. She claimed that she found like a
- 15:07Speaker 1: fanny pack or a medical bag or something in their
- 15:09Speaker 1: home that had syringes and like a violin it that
- 15:12Speaker 1: looked exactly like what he tried to use that day.
- 15:15Speaker 1: But to me, it seems like he would have.
- 15:18Speaker 2: He would have this is just dumped it somewhere around.
- 15:22Speaker 2: This guy is just a complete idiot. Well, I know,
- 15:24Speaker 2: but I mean, I'm glad that he didn't succeed.
- 15:27Speaker 1: I guess he thought. I think he thought that it
- 15:30Speaker 1: would have just been easier, just like.
- 15:34Speaker 2: I hate you. I'm sick of this. And he shoved
- 15:36Speaker 2: her and that's the end of it.
- 15:37Speaker 1: Yeah, because I think he buttered her up, right. He
- 15:39Speaker 1: gave her that nice card in the morning with all
- 15:41Speaker 1: this nice, flowery language about how much he loved her,
- 15:43Speaker 1: And she testified that she thought that their marriage was
- 15:46Speaker 1: now on the right track because there was this affair
- 15:49Speaker 1: and he was very jealous and he was angry, and
- 15:51Speaker 1: she thought like this whole birthday trip and the card
- 15:53Speaker 1: and the dinner and everything was his way of like
- 15:55Speaker 1: moving forward. So I think he thought if he did
- 15:58Speaker 1: all of those things, he could just get this magical
- 16:01Speaker 1: selfie together right on the edge and just push her
- 16:04Speaker 1: off the edge. So then, in late March of twenty
- 16:07Speaker 1: twenty five, Gerhart was indicted on a charge of second
- 16:11Speaker 1: degree attempted murder and pleaded not guilty in Honolulu's Circuit court.
- 16:16Speaker 1: A judge denied his bail and he remained in.
- 16:18Speaker 2: Custody he's been ever since. Yeah.
- 16:21Speaker 1: Prosecutors allege that he also told his nineteen year old
- 16:25Speaker 1: son and a this is a FaceTime call, that he
- 16:28Speaker 1: had quote tried to kill Ariel but she had gotten away.
- 16:31Speaker 1: So that's very interesting to me. There's still a couple
- 16:34Speaker 1: more weeks of this trial to go on.
- 16:35Speaker 2: Why would if the dad did say that, why would
- 16:38Speaker 2: he call his son to say.
- 16:39Speaker 1: That, Well, that wasn't his son with her, that was
- 16:41Speaker 1: his son from his previous marriage.
- 16:42Speaker 2: He has is a matter. Why would he call eighty right?
- 16:44Speaker 1: I don't know, but I'm just telling you he has
- 16:46Speaker 1: older children from like a previous marriage, and then he
- 16:49Speaker 1: has two young sons with.
- 16:50Speaker 2: Her, and that mother is still alive.
- 16:53Speaker 1: I believe, so, so the nineteen year old that he
- 16:56Speaker 1: FaceTime does not Ariel's biological son. He is Gerhart's son
- 16:59Speaker 1: from a past marriage, and Gerhart and Ariel have a
- 17:02Speaker 1: son together, had a son together in twenty twenty and
- 17:04Speaker 1: then another one in twenty twenty three, so they have
- 17:06Speaker 1: very young voice together. Also, I just wanted to when
- 17:11Speaker 1: I was watching her testify and I was watching the trial,
- 17:14Speaker 1: she looks very very different on the stand than she
- 17:17Speaker 1: does in the photographs that they show. So I don't
- 17:20Speaker 1: know if you noticed when they show a photograph and
- 17:22Speaker 1: I saw an.
- 17:22Speaker 2: Article, I saw like a professional photograph, like her in
- 17:25Speaker 2: her scientific lab coat or whatever.
- 17:27Speaker 1: No, I'm just talking to show it was kind.
- 17:29Speaker 2: Of a little glamed up and cleaned up. And well,
- 17:31Speaker 2: I'm just.
- 17:31Speaker 1: Saying anytime they show a photo of her, even if
- 17:33Speaker 1: it's with him, like a selfie with him or with
- 17:34Speaker 1: the family or whatever, like, she looks different to me.
- 17:37Speaker 1: She has makeup and her hair is done. She's very
- 17:40Speaker 1: very very plain looking on the stand, which I think
- 17:44Speaker 1: was on purpose by her, by her attorneys, I'm sure they.
- 17:49Speaker 2: Want a little bit more like an innocent victim.
- 17:51Speaker 1: Yeah, because you know, he the defense is going to
- 17:53Speaker 1: claim that, you know, she had an affair, you know, Yeah,
- 17:57Speaker 1: he's jealous, and then she was volatile and started some argument,
- 18:02Speaker 1: and then she was aggressive with him and.
- 18:04Speaker 2: Then she bashed herself.
- 18:06Speaker 1: Yeah, but so I'm saying I think it was a
- 18:08Speaker 1: I think it was a conscious choice for her to
- 18:12Speaker 1: look very.
- 18:13Speaker 2: De mirrored her look. She just didn't dress up.
- 18:19Speaker 1: No, but I'm saying I think that was on purpose
- 18:22Speaker 1: because at the end of the day, you want to
- 18:24Speaker 1: win the jury over. So if you're too attractive, then
- 18:29Speaker 1: they could latch onto that. If she has makeup and
- 18:32Speaker 1: she looks beautiful and glamorous, it's hard to see someone
- 18:36Speaker 1: like as a victim. But when she has no makeup
- 18:39Speaker 1: and her hair is simple and she doesn't have a
- 18:41Speaker 1: stitch of mascara or anything on her face, I think
- 18:46Speaker 1: the jury taps into that she looks like she could
- 18:49Speaker 1: be harmed. Do you know what I mean. It's like
- 18:51Speaker 1: a subconscious thing, Like you look at her and you
- 18:54Speaker 1: think she looks weak. She looks like a victim.
- 18:56Speaker 2: I don't judge people by the way they look.
- 18:58Speaker 1: Well, jurys do, juries do. And I'm telling you guys.
- 19:02Speaker 2: By the inside, right, I guess you to know them first.
- 19:04Speaker 1: Sure. Twenty five to twenty twenty six is pre trial
- 19:15Speaker 1: and evidence collection during this case, so police collected evidence
- 19:18Speaker 1: from the hiking area, including a blood stained rock. There
- 19:22Speaker 1: was also a backpack found, but I'm still kind of
- 19:25Speaker 1: fuzzy on whether the backpack was found at the scene
- 19:28Speaker 1: or whether he took the backpack with him and then
- 19:31Speaker 1: it was recovered later when they arrested him later. I
- 19:34Speaker 1: don't know. I feel like these details that are a
- 19:36Speaker 1: little fuzzy will come out more as we go along.
- 19:39Speaker 1: In a trial with testimony three days after the incident,
- 19:42Speaker 1: Ariel Koenig reported that she did find a fanny pack
- 19:45Speaker 1: containing a medical syringe, needles, and drug vials, and the
- 19:49Speaker 1: drug vials were identified as propiful. I guess that's how
- 19:52Speaker 1: you put Is that how you put people to sleep? Propofol?
- 19:55Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't put people to sleep.
- 19:57Speaker 1: You don't put I can look it up though, okay, propofol.
- 20:02Speaker 1: This was found in the couple's home in Maui, and
- 20:04Speaker 1: that she testified that these matched the items that she
- 20:08Speaker 1: saw him try to use during the attack, but the
- 20:12Speaker 1: vials from the scene have not been recovered.
- 20:14Speaker 2: So again it's used to for general anesthesia, which would
- 20:18Speaker 2: put her to sleep, yeah, or at least yeah, enough
- 20:20Speaker 2: that he could shove her off the cliff. But here's
- 20:22Speaker 2: my question. It would be in her blood system, right, so.
- 20:25Speaker 1: That's why he But why would you bring it along
- 20:28Speaker 1: because you wouldn't want to put it in her system
- 20:30Speaker 1: because if she did fall off and they do an autopsy,
- 20:32Speaker 1: they're going to find that in her system and then
- 20:33Speaker 1: they're going to link him to it. So I don't
- 20:35Speaker 1: know in what world he thought that was a smart
- 20:38Speaker 1: idea to do.
- 20:40Speaker 2: I don't know.
- 20:41Speaker 1: There's also bodycam footage of Ariel at the scene, wounded
- 20:44Speaker 1: and assisted by hikers that was later shown to the jury.
- 20:47Speaker 1: Did you see that.
- 20:50Speaker 2: She had blood all over It looked really bad? I
- 20:53Speaker 2: know that. They tried to say it wasn't it like
- 20:55Speaker 2: she bled a lot but the incisions weren't so.
- 20:57Speaker 1: Bad or something like that.
- 20:58Speaker 2: But it looked bad.
- 20:59Speaker 1: Right.
- 20:59Speaker 2: Well, here's she also looked really thrown off, like they were.
- 21:02Speaker 2: You know, she was really a mess.
- 21:04Speaker 1: Yeah. I saw her stably so and the body camp
- 21:06Speaker 1: but they were like wrapping her head right with gauze
- 21:10Speaker 1: and she had blood all over her, you know. In
- 21:14Speaker 1: order to find him guilty of attempted murder, the prosecution
- 21:20Speaker 1: is the burden of proving that he intended to kill her.
- 21:23Speaker 2: That day, right, not just hit her on the head,
- 21:25Speaker 2: not just hit her, not just.
- 21:26Speaker 1: Injure her, not just push her down. They have to
- 21:29Speaker 1: prove that he his intent was to kill her. What
- 21:34Speaker 1: the defense is going to do is try to downplay
- 21:36Speaker 1: this whole thing into just some altercation that the two
- 21:39Speaker 1: of them had and that he had no intent to
- 21:42Speaker 1: kill her. So then on March nineteenth, at twenty twenty six,
- 21:45Speaker 1: this is when the trial begins. The attempted murder trial
- 21:48Speaker 1: officially opens. Prosecutors outline their case, focusing on evidence and
- 21:53Speaker 1: witness accounts of the attack. The defense argues that the
- 21:56Speaker 1: incident was not attempted murder. Obviously, they're going to claim
- 21:59Speaker 1: that he had no intent to actually kill her that day,
- 22:02Speaker 1: But instead they're going to claim that they claimed that
- 22:05Speaker 1: self defense.
- 22:06Speaker 2: It was hopeful she would die, but he did not intend.
- 22:08Speaker 1: He did not intend to kill her. They claim self defense.
- 22:13Speaker 1: And they also are going to contest elements such as
- 22:17Speaker 1: the presence of the syringes. So obviously the defense is
- 22:20Speaker 1: really going to focus on the fact that those syringes
- 22:22Speaker 1: were never found at the scene and that's going to
- 22:25Speaker 1: go to her believability. That's what they're going to do, right,
- 22:27Speaker 1: They're going to say she's invented this.
- 22:30Speaker 2: Found doesn't mean they didn't exist. It just means not found. Right,
- 22:34Speaker 2: Not seeing something doesn't prove it doesn't exist exactly.
- 22:37Speaker 1: But the defense is going to latch onto that. They're
- 22:39Speaker 1: going to pound that into the jury's head. That there
- 22:43Speaker 1: that she claims that there were syringes in.
- 22:44Speaker 2: A li did exist, Is that lava rock and blood
- 22:47Speaker 2: all over her head.
- 22:50Speaker 1: Whether a confession was actually made, which is the face time,
- 22:54Speaker 1: and whether Ariel is a credible witness. So those are
- 22:58Speaker 1: the things that the jury is going to have to
- 23:00Speaker 1: figure out. Ariel Conig took the stand and provided detailed
- 23:04Speaker 1: testimony about the day of the attack. You know, we
- 23:06Speaker 1: talked a little bit about her testifying because we did
- 23:09Speaker 1: watch it. But she recounted hiking and feeling uneasy about
- 23:12Speaker 1: the location due to its dangerous terrain and wind. I
- 23:15Speaker 1: did read that the trail is very like there's there's
- 23:19Speaker 1: areas that are very steep that you have to climb up,
- 23:22Speaker 1: and then it gets very close to much just like
- 23:25Speaker 1: a path.
- 23:25Speaker 2: Right.
- 23:26Speaker 1: No, it's a popular hiking trail, but I think it's
- 23:28Speaker 1: kind of strenuous, and you know, there's a drop off.
- 23:32Speaker 1: She also testified that after they took a selfie on
- 23:35Speaker 1: the cliff, as she began to move away from the edge, Gerhardt,
- 23:38Speaker 1: who was facing the cliff, allegedly grabbed her arm and
- 23:41Speaker 1: yelled I'm so effing done with this shit and get
- 23:44Speaker 1: back over there, while trying to pull her toward the edge.
- 23:47Speaker 1: I love that when his plan starts to fail because
- 23:49Speaker 1: she won't get close, he just loses his mind and
- 23:52Speaker 1: he just starts yelling at her and he's like, get
- 23:54Speaker 1: back over to that spot. He didn't do a very
- 23:58Speaker 1: good job well alive.
- 24:00Speaker 2: I know, I know. Well he also underestimated her ability
- 24:03Speaker 2: to fight back. But you know, like announcing I'm going
- 24:06Speaker 2: to throw you off the cliff is pretty much what
- 24:08Speaker 2: he did that obviously put her on guard. When did
- 24:11Speaker 2: he do that when he said, like, I'm sick of
- 24:13Speaker 2: this and he like, I think he grabs both sides
- 24:16Speaker 2: of her. Yeah, I mean that's kind of implaying I'm
- 24:18Speaker 2: going to throw you off a cliff. Yeah, and for
- 24:20Speaker 2: her to be on guard and start to defend herself, right,
- 24:24Speaker 2: So I guess it was good he said that because
- 24:26Speaker 2: he gave her a little bit of notice.
- 24:28Speaker 1: Yeah, how does how.
- 24:30Speaker 2: Do people like that become a doctor? Like? How do
- 24:32Speaker 2: you go through the the all I don't mean because
- 24:34Speaker 2: he's a doctor, but all that work and all that
- 24:38Speaker 2: diligence and all that planning and schooling something. Yeah, and
- 24:43Speaker 2: then and then the way you solve problems you try
- 24:46Speaker 2: to kill someone.
- 24:48Speaker 1: I don't know, but that's the question. Is it because
- 24:50Speaker 1: he's a doctor that he has some god complex and
- 24:53Speaker 1: he has some ego problem and he does feel like
- 24:56Speaker 1: the way that he can take care of this problem
- 24:59Speaker 1: is just to throw her off of a cliff instead
- 25:01Speaker 1: of getting divorced. I'll never understand why divorce isn't an option.
- 25:06Speaker 2: Well, that is an option. He chose death instead.
- 25:09Speaker 1: Yeah, but it wasn't an option for him. Why is
- 25:12Speaker 1: throwing his wife off of a cliff?
- 25:14Speaker 2: And he wants her dead. He wants her out of
- 25:17Speaker 2: the picture. He doesn't want the kids to see her.
- 25:20Speaker 2: He doesn't want her and so that's more important than like,
- 25:25Speaker 2: you know, her living to him. Now he's in jail.
- 25:31Speaker 2: His trip to Honolulu is a little bit longer than planned,
- 25:35Speaker 2: by about twenty five years to life.
- 25:38Speaker 1: Twenty five years a life. What do you think his
- 25:41Speaker 1: sentence should be. Do you think he should her? Yes,
- 25:43Speaker 1: life in prison. Yeah, you do believe that he was
- 25:46Speaker 1: set out that day with the intent to kill her.
- 25:48Speaker 2: Yes. I watched her testimony, and by the way she
- 25:53Speaker 2: looked and the way she had composed herself, and then
- 25:57Speaker 2: she didn't have any makeup on, I believed her.
- 25:59Speaker 1: Oh oh my gosh, well, too bad you're not on
- 26:04Speaker 1: the jury then.
- 26:05Speaker 2: Nah, it was pretty believable.
- 26:07Speaker 1: Well, yeah, she's believable. Yeah.
- 26:08Speaker 2: Thought I thought her fighting back was something else. I mean,
- 26:12Speaker 2: she she never let go. She was constantly protecting herself.
- 26:16Speaker 2: And then for her to go up there and testify
- 26:18Speaker 2: like that, I thought was pretty awesome, right, I think.
- 26:21Speaker 2: I think I had a smug and a smirk on
- 26:23Speaker 2: his face non stop.
- 26:26Speaker 1: Well, the first day of testimony, when they showed pictures
- 26:29Speaker 1: of her and her injuries, he was crying.
- 26:34Speaker 2: Because he get caught.
- 26:35Speaker 1: Well, I think he well, I don't know why he
- 26:38Speaker 1: was probably back.
- 26:39Speaker 2: I didn't care, but.
- 26:39Speaker 1: He was crying in court during that part, So I
- 26:43Speaker 1: don't know. Here's the real question, And this is the
- 26:46Speaker 1: interesting part, because the defense is claiming that he had
- 26:51Speaker 1: no intent to kill her, right, and that it was
- 26:54Speaker 1: a scuffle and that she started in this and the
- 26:57Speaker 1: rock was because he was defending himself. That's there, right,
- 27:01Speaker 1: it's self defense. Right. They're going to put him on
- 27:04Speaker 1: the stand. He's going to testify on his own behalf.
- 27:07Speaker 2: Well, he's choosing to. He didn't have to. Well, when that's.
- 27:10Speaker 1: Your defense, then I believe like you have to tell
- 27:13Speaker 1: your side of the story. So he's going to testify,
- 27:17Speaker 1: and the question is is the jury going to find
- 27:20Speaker 1: anything that he says to be believable?
- 27:23Speaker 2: Not if he's not that smirk on his face.
- 27:26Speaker 1: He shouldn't wear any makeup though, no, he should. He
- 27:28Speaker 1: should look very de mirror.
- 27:30Speaker 2: He's a yeah, it'll be good. It'll be a good
- 27:33Speaker 2: one to watch because when the defendant goes on the stand,
- 27:36Speaker 2: it's much more interesting.
- 27:38Speaker 1: Oh yes, it is.
- 27:39Speaker 2: Then witnesses and cops, right, is saying what they saw, right,
- 27:43Speaker 2: because we've had testimony from because it opens up a
- 27:46Speaker 2: whole can of worms.
- 27:47Speaker 1: Yeah, because there's been all the cops that have testified
- 27:50Speaker 1: about what they saw the day, and you know the
- 27:52Speaker 1: footage the witnesses have testified, and there was also I
- 27:55Speaker 1: believe a forensics person or a medical examiner or someone
- 27:58Speaker 1: test or a forensics person testify to the fact that
- 28:00Speaker 1: like the blood found on the lava rock is her DNA.
- 28:04Speaker 1: And then there was also I believe DNA found on
- 28:06Speaker 1: the rock attributed to him. So now we've solidified that
- 28:09Speaker 1: he did pick up the rock and that the blood
- 28:11Speaker 1: was attributed to her that was on the rock. But
- 28:14Speaker 1: the interesting part is what's coming up. Because you're right,
- 28:18Speaker 1: I want to see him on the stand. I want
- 28:20Speaker 1: to see how he answers questions. I want to see
- 28:23Speaker 1: if he stays calm, because really the prosecutor wants to
- 28:26Speaker 1: irritate him, right, he wants to get under his skin
- 28:29Speaker 1: and show that he's he's angry, that he's volatile.
- 28:34Speaker 2: To break them.
- 28:35Speaker 1: He's going to try to break them. You can't handle
- 28:38Speaker 1: the truth that we need that moment that's from a
- 28:41Speaker 1: few good men. Have you ever seen that movie where
- 28:43Speaker 1: they he just he goes out. It's it's Tom Cruise
- 28:47Speaker 1: and he's he's cross examining, and then he's he's questioning
- 28:52Speaker 1: him and questioning him and questioning him, and then he
- 28:55Speaker 1: loses that. He just breaks the facade and he just
- 28:58Speaker 1: goes and he's like, you can't hand the truth, and
- 29:00Speaker 1: he just says all the things that he shouldn't say.
- 29:02Speaker 1: So I'm saying we need a few good men moment
- 29:04Speaker 1: with doctor Koenig where he just loses it and he's like, yeah,
- 29:08Speaker 1: I wanted to take her out. I wanted to push
- 29:10Speaker 1: her over the cliff. She's a bitch. All right, So
- 29:13Speaker 1: we'll see maybe that'll happen. Maybe, Okay, all right, So
- 29:16Speaker 1: the trial is actively in progress with no verdict yet.
- 29:20Speaker 1: As we were talking about that Doctor Koenig Jack Nicholson
- 29:24Speaker 1: in that movie.
- 29:24Speaker 2: Yes, okay, no, we need to watch it. That's a
- 29:26Speaker 2: good picture. I'm saying the because I think I've probably
- 29:29Speaker 2: seen a clip.
- 29:30Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a good nineties movie. Yeah, it's a good
- 29:33Speaker 1: lawyer movie. You would like it.
- 29:34Speaker 2: No, it sounds like a little dramatic, Well.
- 29:37Speaker 1: It is, but it's a good movie.
- 29:38Speaker 2: It's yes, yeah, so it's gonna be good.
- 29:42Speaker 1: It is, all right. So there's no verdict yet. However,
- 29:44Speaker 1: we will continue to follow this trial because we definitely
- 29:47Speaker 1: want to talk about doctor Koenig's testimony cross examination, which
- 29:51Speaker 1: should be interesting. But we'll see. We're going to follow it,
- 29:53Speaker 1: and we will give you an update. It's fascinating and
- 29:56Speaker 1: it's it's everywhere. I feel like when we first talked
- 29:59Speaker 1: about it a year ago on Just the Regular Leely Brunette,
- 30:03Speaker 1: we did an episode on this, there wasn't much information
- 30:05Speaker 1: and I don't feel like the media had really grabbed
- 30:08Speaker 1: onto it yet. I just thought it was really interesting.
- 30:11Speaker 2: This guy that had a medical bag and he tried right, right,
- 30:14Speaker 2: and we yeah, we didn't know all the details. We
- 30:16Speaker 2: still don't know all the details, right.
- 30:18Speaker 1: But obviously now there's more information because of the trial
- 30:22Speaker 1: and the testimony. But now this case is huge. Every
- 30:25Speaker 1: time I there's so many articles and so many video clips,
- 30:29Speaker 1: and yeah, it's it's out there, so everybody's talking about it.
- 30:32Speaker 1: So anyway, we wanted to follow the trial and do
- 30:35Speaker 1: an update and do a more in depth episode on
- 30:38Speaker 1: this case. So anyway, again, our public service message to
- 30:42Speaker 1: all our listeners out there is that divorce is always
- 30:45Speaker 1: the better option. So if you are feeling like you
- 30:50Speaker 1: want to go on a hike to Hawaii with your
- 30:52Speaker 1: significant other and push them on the Pali Puoka what
- 30:57Speaker 1: was it Paliali trail?
- 31:00Speaker 2: Really for that matter, that has a cliff, right, were
- 31:03Speaker 2: packing things up after an affair. Yes, it's probably best
- 31:06Speaker 2: to be at sea level right and.
- 31:08Speaker 1: I would say either you just have to move on
- 31:10Speaker 1: from the affair or get divorced. Those are your two options.
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