Dateline: True Crime Weekly
Accused killer's voice on a 911 call in Michigan. A hike in paradise gone terribly wrong. And Karen Read's retrial begins.
Thu, 3 Apr 2025
Listen to this week's episode of the Dateline: True Crime Weekly with Andrea Canning. In Michigan, the prosecution plays the 911 call from the crime scene — but does it help the defense? In Hawaii, a doctor is charged with attempted murder after allegedly trying to push his wife off a popular trail. What she's told investigators. Jury selection is underway in Karen Read's retrial and finished early in Lori Vallow Daybell's Arizona trial. Plus, best practices for law enforcement on how to interact with people with autism. Find out more about the cases covered each week here: www.datelinetruecrimeweekly.com.Domestic violence resources: Call 1-800-799-SAFE, text START to 88788, or visit https://www.thehotline.org/
Chapter 1: What happened in the Michigan courtroom retrial?
Yeah, and so that led to a pretty intense moment in court earlier this week when they were still working their way through pretrial motions. Lori's trying to have a speedy trial, but the prosecution has said it's too speedy, that they don't have enough information about what she's planned for her defense. And they actually said she's trying to conduct a trial by ambush.
And Lori kind of took offense to that.
How is the defense trial by ambush when they have interviewed every single one of these witnesses?
The judge was trying to get her to tell him about the relevancy of each of her witnesses, and they had this exchange.
I've done everything in my power with the limitations that I am an incarcerated person at this maximum security prison jail. And I shouldn't be able to represent myself because of that fact? That negates my constitutional right?
I didn't say that. All right. I said that sometimes there are reasons to not go forward to trial as fast as you want.
And openings in that case are coming soon? This coming Monday. Okay. And finally, we know that the trial of Sean Diddy Combs is set to start next month. He's charged with sex trafficking, transportation for the purposes of prostitution, and conspiracy. And he has pleaded not guilty to those charges. Sue, what is going on with all the civil suits since there are, what, more than 50 of them now?
Yeah, the total was actually over 60 until this week when one of those suits was dismissed by a judge because the plaintiff didn't identify herself. So this claim was brought in federal court in the Southern District of New York, so Manhattan. And the plaintiff said that back in 1995, she was at a party for a music video and she and Combs started kissing in the bathroom.
And when she stopped, she says he struck her and then he raped her. He is denied this allegation. So when she filed the suit in October, the judge said the plaintiff could stay anonymous because putting her name to those allegations would get her, quote, significant, potentially harmful attention from the media and the public.
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Chapter 6: What are the latest updates on Karen Read's retrial?
Koenig was taken into custody after a manhunt last week and indicted for attempted second-degree murder. He has not yet entered a plea, and his attorney did not respond to a request for comment. Mahe Alani Richardson, who is the evening anchor for Hawaii News Now, KHNL, joins us to break down this story of the ultimate trouble in paradise. Welcome to the podcast. Aloha, Andrea.
I love hearing aloha. Okay. So to start, this couple, they seem to have it all. They were married in 2018. They had two children. They had lived in Pittsburgh in an affluent area and then moved to Hawaii. Okay. What do we know about the relationship between Gerhardt and Arielle Koenig?
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...
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 never never in a million years would i think that this would happen shock because i cannot um it's hard to fathom it's it's hard to grasp the severity of of this tragic incident i just i can't
How did they end up, Gerhard and Ariel, wind up on this trail in the first place?
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.
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.
So in these court documents, Ariel says that things got physical.
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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