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Handyman lover, 44, is arrested for the murder of Queens mom who was stabbed 58 times and stuffed into a duffel bag – David Bonola is charged with murder, criminal tampering and criminal possession of a weapon

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"109460728"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"has-text-color wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;372d2d&semi;font-size&colon;16px"><strong>David Bonola&comma; 44&comma; has been arrested for the murder of Orsolya Gaal&comma; 51&comma; who was murdered inside her home in Queens&comma; NY on Friday night <&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"has-text-color wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;372d2d&semi;font-size&colon;16px"><strong>Her husband and 17-year-old son were out of town&comma; while her younger son&comma; 13&comma; was upstairs as she was <strong>was stabbed 58 times and stuffed into a duffel bag<&sol;strong> <&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"has-text-color wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;372d2d&semi;font-size&colon;16px"><strong> Several sources believe the handyman and the married mother-of-two at some point were &&num;8216&semi;lovers&&num;8217&semi; <&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"has-text-color wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;372d2d&semi;font-size&colon;16px"><strong>He is charged with murder&comma; criminal tampering and criminal possession of a weapon <&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"has-text-color wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;372d2d&semi;font-size&colon;16px"><strong>Cops zeroed in on Bonola because of a pair of blood-soaked boots left at Gaal’s Forest Hills home after the fatal stabbing attack <&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"has-text-color wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;372d2d&semi;font-size&colon;16px"><strong>Gaal&&num;8217&semi;s dismembered remains were found inside a hockey duffel bag&comma; dumped a half-mile from her house&comma; <strong>at 8&period;11am<&sol;strong> <strong>on Saturday <&sol;strong><&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"has-text-color wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;372d2d&semi;font-size&colon;16px"><strong>An NYPD press briefing is scheduled for later today  <&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;04&sol;David-Bonola-left-and-Orsolya-Gaal-right-2&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-405688"&sol;><figcaption><strong><strong>Orsolya Gaal&comma; &lbrack;right&rsqb;&comma; who was stabbed to death in the early hours of Saturday morning&period; <strong>Her ex-lover David Bonola &lbrack;left&rsqb;&comma; has now been charged with her murder<&sol;strong>&period; <&sol;strong>Bonola&comma; 44&comma; allegedly made a full confession after his arrest<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>A 44-year-old man has been arrested for the murder of Queens mother Orsolya Gaal&period; <br>David Bonola&comma; 44&comma; has been charged with murder&comma; criminal tampering and criminal possession of a weapon&period; <br>It remains unclear how he knew Gaal&comma; who was stabbed 58 times in her home in Forest Hills on Saturday at around 12&period;40am&period;  <br>While the case has mystified authorities and those who knew Gaal for nearly a week&comma; investigators had indicated they were focused on one person who knew Gaal and had access to her Forest Hills home&period; That&&num;8217&semi;s likely why there were no signs of forced entry&comma; sources have said&period; Forensic evidence was collected from her Juno Street home&period; <br>Sources hinted that Bonola was the handyman thought to have also been Gaal’s lover&period; The suspect who allegedly&comma; gave a full confession after his arrest&comma; was picked up mainly because of a pair of blood-soaked boots left at Gaal’s Forest Hills home after she was stabbed scores of times in the early hours Saturday&comma; sources said&period; <br>Bonola has no prior arrests&comma; according to police&period;&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;04&sol;Police-recover-Orsolya-Gaals-body-6&period;jpg" alt&equals;"This image has an empty alt attribute&semi; its file name is Police-recover-Orsolya-Gaals-body-6&period;jpg" width&equals;"840" height&equals;"542"&sol;><figcaption><strong>Gaal&&num;8217&semi;s body was found stuffed in a hockey duffel bag on the sidewalk about a half mile from her home&comma; around 8&period;AM&comma; on Saturday morning&period; her ex <strong>David Bonola&comma; has been charged with murder&comma; criminal tampering and criminal possession of a weapon<&sol;strong><&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>The NYPD is scheduled to give a press briefing ay 11&period;30am later today&period; Bonola is understood to be in custody at the 112th Precinct in Queens&period; <br>The suspect police sources <a rel&equals;"noreferrer noopener" href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;nbcnewyork&period;com&sol;news&sol;local&sol;crime-and-courts&sol;person-in-custody-in-case-of-nyc-mom-found-stabbed-58-times-in-duffel-bag-sources&sol;3656073&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">say<&sol;a>&comma; is the &&num;8216&semi;handyman&&num;8217&semi; and is believed to have had access to the home&period;  The pair some sources <a rel&equals;"noreferrer noopener" href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;nydailynews&period;com&sol;new-york&sol;nyc-crime&sol;ny-queens-mom-stabbed-orsolya-gaal-suspect-arrested-duffel-bag-20220421-53yyvd677zfahjipbigkoyg6wa-story&period;html" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">claimed<&sol;a>&comma; were having an affair&period; Social media posts from 2020 show the pair interacting&period; <br>A Facebook account under his name previously commented on some of Gaal’s photos — as well as sending her public messages of &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;love” and &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;heart” emojis&period; <br>Under one of Gaal&&num;8217&semi;s photos Bonola wrote&colon; &&num;8216&semi;Hola&&num;8217&semi;&period; She&&num;8217&semi;d posted a childhood photo&comma; sandwiched between two gushing tributes to her husband&comma; with photos from their wedding day&period; <br>Gaal sent a like in response&period; <br>In another post&comma; he told her how beautiful she looked&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Your eyes in love&comma;” he commented with the affectionate emoji to a May 2020 screenshot of Gaal posing during a Zoom party with friends&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s unclear how aor when the affair ended&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;04&sol;Orsolya-Gaal-and-her-husband-Howard-Klein-with-their-two-sons-3&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-405589" width&equals;"855" height&equals;"760"&sol;><figcaption><strong>Gaal who is married is seen &lbrack;photo&rsqb;&comma; with her sons&comma; 17-yearold Jamie and 13-year-old Leo&comma; and husband Howard Klein <&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Bonola who allegedly made a full confession once he was taken into custody&comma; resides in Richmond Hill&comma; a neighborhood in Queens that is a stone&&num;8217&semi;s throw from where Gaal lived with her family&period;  <br>The suspect allegedly showed up at the victim&&num;8217&semi;s house and the two argued&comma; though it wasn&&num;8217&semi;t clear exactly when that happened or what the fight was about&period; <br>Detectives believe the pair argued inside before Bonola allegedly killed Gaal in her own basement&period;<br>There have been confused reports over where exactly inside the home she was attacked&comma; with some sources saying evidence points to a struggle on the first floor&period;<br><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;04&sol;David-Bonola-text-1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-405676"&sol;><figcaption><strong>Gaal and Bonola interacted with each other on social media&period; In 2020&comma; he liked a photograph of her as a child&comma; writing &&num;8216&semi;Hola&&num;8217&semi; with a love heart underneath the image&period; She &&num;8216&semi;liked&&num;8217&semi; his comment <&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>The chronology of preceding events said that Gaal had spent Friday night at a show at the Lincoln Center in Manhattan with girlfriends&period; <br>After the girl&&num;8217&semi;s outing&comma; she returned to Queens sometime before 11pm&comma; stopping in for a drink at the Forest Hills Station House&comma; where she had a meal and a drink&period; She then walked home to Juno Street ffor the 10 minute walk to her home&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-large is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;04&sol;Orsolya-Gaal-murder-3-1024x566&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-405493" width&equals;"840" height&equals;"464"&sol;><figcaption><strong>This is believed to be Orsolya Gaal&&num;8217&semi;s killer&comma; dragging her body along the sidewalk after stabbing her nearly 60 times in her basement in Queens on Saturday <&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>It&&num;8217&semi;s unclear if her killer was already inside the home or if she let him in afterwards but at 12&period;40am&comma; she was stabbed 58 times in the neck&comma; torso and arm&period; <br>Her 13-year-old son Leo was upstairs in the house at the time&period; At 4&period;11am&comma; the suspect wheeled Gaal&&num;8217&semi;s body out of the house in a duffel bag&period;<br>He was filmed rushing past houses&comma; dragging it behind him&comma; before dumping it 0&period;5 miles from the property on the side of a busy road&period; <br>It was found the next morning by a dog walker who called police&period; Cops then followed a trail of blood left by the dragged bag back to Gaal&&num;8217&semi;s home&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;04&sol;NYPD-at-Orsolya-Gaals-house-1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-405603" width&equals;"833" height&equals;"569"&sol;><figcaption><strong>NYPD detectives cart evidence from the Klein family home on Monday&period; The home remained sealed off on Wednesday morning with several police cruisers parked outside <&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>They found Leo inside unscathed and took him in for questioning&comma; putting him in handcuffs&comma; before letting him go later that day&period; <br>Gaal&&num;8217&semi;s husband Howard and her older son Jamie&comma; who had been on the West Coast&comma; rushed back&period; They have not been seen or heard from since&period; <br>In the week since her death&comma; there have been numerous reports based on unnamed police sources that Gaal had been having an affair&period; <br>Cops focused on an unidentified handyman &&num;8211&semi; now believed to be Bonola &&num;8211&semi; who they said knew his way around the house and might have even had access to a spare key&period; <br>Whoever killed her&comma; they said&comma; had not been planning it and left a &&num;8216&semi;sloppy&&num;8217&semi; crime scene that likely contained the killer&&num;8217&semi;s DNA&period; <br>&&num;8216&semi;He left a blood trail for five blocks from the house&period; It was like a trail of bread crumbs&period; <br>&&num;8216&semi;If you want to kill somebody&comma; you try to make it a little cleaner&comma; be a little more prepared&period; He didn’t go with something to move her body&period; He took something from the house&period; <br>&&num;8216&semi;I’m sure with that kind of blood&comma; there’s lots of DNA there&period; The killer’s DNA has gotta be in that blood&period; It’s not a clean scene&comma;&&num;8217&semi; a police source <a rel&equals;"noreferrer noopener" href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;nypost&period;com&sol;2022&sol;04&sol;19&sol;why-slay-of-orsolya-gaal-probably-wasnt-planned-sources&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">remarked<&sol;a> on Tuesday night&period; <br><&sol;p>&NewLine;

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