Mahe Alani Richardson
Appearances
Dateline NBC
Accused killer's voice on a 911 call in Michigan. A hike in paradise gone terribly wrong. And Karen Read's retrial begins.
His wife says he struck her with a rock 10 times on the head, grabbed her hair, and smashed her face into the ground.
Dateline NBC
Accused killer's voice on a 911 call in Michigan. A hike in paradise gone terribly wrong. And Karen Read's retrial begins.
We've talked to a few people who knew the Koenigs. She's reportedly a nuclear engineer. He is a medical doctor. Everyone said they appeared to be a loving couple. We had talked to a housekeeper who's also a friend of hers, and she had just been to their house a week before the incident. She said that Dr. Koenig was...
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Accused killer's voice on a 911 call in Michigan. A hike in paradise gone terribly wrong. And Karen Read's retrial begins.
normally quiet and she thought it was because he's just a very professional person and he was a very busy person, but she said that they were a loving family.
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Accused killer's voice on a 911 call in Michigan. A hike in paradise gone terribly wrong. And Karen Read's retrial begins.
They live on the island of Maui. And according to the court documents, he had planned a getaway for her birthday on Oahu. So he's the one who suggested, correct, this hike on the trail? That's right. According to the court documents, it was his idea to go on this hike at the Palipuku Trail. And if you can imagine these hikes, this is not a simple walk in the park. It is an unmanaged trail.
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Accused killer's voice on a 911 call in Michigan. A hike in paradise gone terribly wrong. And Karen Read's retrial begins.
It is very rocky. It is very slippery, depending on the weather conditions. So they went to the edge of the cliff and they took a selfie and she was feeling dizzy, according to her accounts. And so she wanted to move away. And it's during that time that She claims that he was angry at her and he said, and I'm going to use her language verbatim, she said, get back over here. I'm so sick of you.
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Accused killer's voice on a 911 call in Michigan. A hike in paradise gone terribly wrong. And Karen Read's retrial begins.
That's right. She says that he grabbed her, he grabbed her hair and hit her with a rock. Ten times, he threw her into the bushes, and then she says that he had a syringe and tried to inject her with some sort of unknown liquid. And then she said that she bit him to try to fight him off. I mean, at one point, it sounded like...
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Accused killer's voice on a 911 call in Michigan. A hike in paradise gone terribly wrong. And Karen Read's retrial begins.
He was on top of her, she was on top of him, and so there was a struggle.
Dateline NBC
Accused killer's voice on a 911 call in Michigan. A hike in paradise gone terribly wrong. And Karen Read's retrial begins.
That's right. So according to the police records, one of them ran up ahead and saw... Dr. Kone got on top of his wife in the middle of the struggle. And it's during that time that when this other hiker had come upon her, that's when he stopped and he was able to get away. And according to the temporary restraining order, he has an adult son. We also believe that he lives on Maui as well.
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Accused killer's voice on a 911 call in Michigan. A hike in paradise gone terribly wrong. And Karen Read's retrial begins.
He had called the son and FaceTimed and said that he had tried to kill his wife and that he wanted to commit suicide by jumping off the side of the cliff.
Dateline NBC
Accused killer's voice on a 911 call in Michigan. A hike in paradise gone terribly wrong. And Karen Read's retrial begins.
According to Ariel, he accused her of having an affair which fueled what she called extreme jealousy. And she claims that he was attempting to control and monitor her communications. We also learned that they had been seeing a therapist for both individual and couples therapy. But in terms of what the court documents had said, it appears that this one incident was not a one-time thing.
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Accused killer's voice on a 911 call in Michigan. A hike in paradise gone terribly wrong. And Karen Read's retrial begins.
She accused him in her petition to the court of rape. sexual assault and assault for months leading up to this incident. I spoke to the head of the Domestic Violence Action Center on how domestic violence experts are reacting to this case. One thing that they said was that what makes this so shocking is that this is involving a doctor and doctors take this oath
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Accused killer's voice on a 911 call in Michigan. A hike in paradise gone terribly wrong. And Karen Read's retrial begins.
to protect people, so that he allegedly tried to kill his wife is so shocking when doctors are supposed to be held to the highest ethical standards.
Dateline NBC
Accused killer's voice on a 911 call in Michigan. A hike in paradise gone terribly wrong. And Karen Read's retrial begins.
Well, he is going to be going for an arraignment and plea. So that's coming up in just a few days. And later on in April, there will be another hearing for the temporary restraining order. And so this is just the beginning of the court process.