NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles!. A Hawaii jury heard testimony that a son watched his father appear on FaceTime with blood on his shirt and admit he had just tried to kill his wife before saying he planned to jump off a cliff ahead of police.. Prosecutors are relying heavily on that account from Emile Konig as they build their case against Gerhardt Konig, a doctor who is accused of attacking his wife, Arielle Konig, near the Pali Puka Trail on Oahu in March 2025.. Emile, who was living with the couple and his younger siblings in Kahului, Maui, said the call came shortly after the alleged attack.. “He would not be making it back to Maui and to take care of the younger kids and that Ari, my stepmom, had been cheating on him and that he tried to kill her,” Emile testified, recounting what his father told him, according to Hawaii News Now and courtroom testimony.. DOCTOR’S WIFE TESTIFIES HE BEAT HER WITH ROCK, TRIED TO FORCE HER TOWARD CLIFF EDGE DURING HIKE. Jurors heard the first call came at 10:42 a.m., when Konig allegedly told his son he was not coming home and needed him to step in for the family. He also claimed Arielle had been unfaithful and said he had just tried to kill her.. About an hour later, Emile testified, his father called again on FaceTime, where he appeared with blood on his shirt.. Emile told the court he saw blood on his father’s shirt.. During the call, Konig again spoke about the alleged affair and the attack, and then described what he planned to do next.. “During that call, the next plan that he said was to jump off the cliff,” Emile testified. “I told him not to.”. HAWAII DOCTOR’S EX-BOSS SAYS ANESTHESIOLOGISTS HAVE MEANS TO KILL AS WIFE TESTIFIES ABOUT SYRINGE ATTACK. Prosecutors say Konig ended the call with a stark warning: “I’m going to go before the police catch me.”. Emile also testified his father never claimed self-defense during either call, a key point as the defense has argued Arielle was the initial aggressor.. During cross-examination, defense attorney Thomas Otake pressed Emile on specifics of the FaceTime call.. Emile confirmed he saw blood on his father’s shirt and that Konig said it belonged to Arielle. He also testified that his father told him the blood came from her head and that Arielle had been cheating on him for “a couple months.”. JURORS SHOWN BODYCAM OF DOCTOR’S BLOODY WIFE, ROCK HE ALLEGEDLY USED TO BASH HER IN CLIFFSIDE ATTACK. Otake also asked whether everything had seemed normal earlier that morning.. “Yes,” Emile said.. In the courtroom, Konig reportedly showed no visible emotion as his son testified. Emile’s grandparents also watched quietly from the gallery, Hawaii News Now reported.. Earlier in the trial, Honolulu Police Department digital forensics examiner Det. Thomas Iinuma detailed what prosecutors describe as a troubling digital trail in the months leading up to the incident.. FOLLOW THE FOX TRUE CRIME TEAM ON X. Investigators recovered data from Konig’s la
