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Handy man David Bonola, who is charged with killing married lover, claims the mother-of-two from Queens ‘ lied to me … used me …told me that she loved me. She couldn’t be with one person. … then gave me HIV’

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David Bonola, 44, of Queens, said he killed Orsolya Gaal, 51, because he believed she had infected him during their two-year affair

On April 16, married mother-of-two Orsolya Gaal was stabbed 58 times in the basement of the stately Queens home she shared with her financial advisor husband and two teenage sons

Bonola who worked in Gaal’s home as a handy man was arraigned Tuesday on a 13-count indictment for killing the home owner

Prosecutors claim Bonola, slashed her throat and stabbed her 58 times in her basement after he came to her house to confront her – The handy man was making his court appearance having allegedly, admitted to the killing

Bonola allegedly told police he was angry and suspect Gaal was cheating on him 

Questioned on April 20, he told cops, ”She lied to me, she used me. She told me that she loved me. She couldn’t be with one person. … then gave me HIV’

He also claimed that after stabbing Gaal, he threw her laptop full of sex videos into the Hudson river because it contained explicit images

Cops said the killer was familiar with the layout of the home and knew how to gain access without raising triggering the alarm

After Gaal’s death, the killer allegedly grabbed one of her son’s duffle bags and stuffed the body inside while her son was upstairse

His charges include two counts second-degree murder, two counts burglary in the first degree, concealment of human corpse, tampering with physical evidence and criminal possession of a weapon

If convicted, Bonola faces up to 25 years-to-life in jail 

David Bonola [left], 44, of Queens, NY was arraigned on Tuesday on a 13-count indictment for the April 16 murder of Orsolya Gaal, [right]. The 51-year-old mother of two, was found in a hockey bag in the middle of the street in Queens. Police said she’d been brutally stabbed 58 times 

The lover of a married Queens mom is claiming he murdered her because he thought she had given him HIV during their two year affair, adding that he threw the victim’s laptop into New York’s Hudson river because it contained explicit videos
David Bonola, a 44-year-old handyman also from Queens, was arraigned on Tuesday on a 13-count indictment for the April 16 murder of married mother-of-two Orsolya Gaal, 51, who was stabbed 58 times in the basement of the stately Queens home she shared with her financial advisor husband and two teenage sons.
Bonola killed Gaal and took her dismembered body out of the home, stuffed in a duffle bag, while her younger son was upstairs. Her husband and college age son were out of state making campus visits.
According to the court documents, when detectives questions him on April 20, Bonola allegedly claimed Gaal was cheating on him and that, ‘She gave me HIV,’ the New York Post reported.  
‘She lied to me, she used me. She told me that she loved me. She couldn’t be with one person.
I took her laptop because she had sex videos on the laptop,’ he added.
‘I threw her laptop in the Hudson River where I used to visit her,’ the suspect told his interviewers, according to the charging documents.
Queens Supreme Court Justice Michael Aloise charged Bonola with two counts of murder in the second degree, two counts of burglary in the first degree, concealment of a human corpse, tampering with physical evidence and criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree. 
If convicted, the handyman faces up to 25 years-to-life in prison. 

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Bonola was charged [photo] on April 21. According to court docs, when questioned on April 20, the handy man claimed Gaal, his married lover, was cheating on him and he’d gone to her home because ”She gave me HIVduring the two-year affair
Murder suspect David Bonola [in orange regulation uniform], if convicted, faces up to 25 years-to-life in prison

He allegedly told police that he went to her home on the night of the murder because he believed she had given him HIV during their two-year affair
Prosecutors said Gaal had returned to her home in Forest Hills on April 16, at around 12:30 a.m., when Bonola went into the house just a few minutes later. 
Bonola, who had worked as Gaal’s handyman for the last two years and had an affair with the mother of two, got into an argument with her and went on to slash her throat while they were in the basement, according to the charges. 
NYPD officials said Bonola had gone over to the home in an attempt to resurrect the affair as the relationship had come to ‘the end’. 
According the statements from the April 20 interrogation, Bonola also confronted Gaal about the HIV claim. 
‘I told her that I just wanted her to tell me the truth about why she gave me HIV,’ Bonola told police. ‘She said she didn’t have HIV.’

Bonola, [L-R], who had worked as Gaal’s handyman for the last two years and had an affair with the mother of two. He’d gone over to the home in an attempt to resurrect the affair as the relationship had come to ‘the end’, got into an argument before slashing her throat, in the basement

When Gaal told him the affair was over, he said she grabbed a knife and ordered him to leave, but Bonola told police he refused. 
‘I grabbed the knife and cut her from the neck,’ Bonola allegedly told police. ‘She kept fighting and we fall. She was moving and trying to grab me so I stabbed her in the neck to get her to stop attacking me.’ Prosecutors said he went on to stab her 58 times before grabbing one of her son’s hockey duffle bags and stuffing her body inside. Gaal’s 13-year-old son, Leo, was asleep upstairs when the murder allegedly took place. 
Her husband, Howard Klein, and oldest son, Jamie, were out of town looking at colleges. 

A figure believed to be David Bonola was caught on a neighbors surveillance camera heading to Gaal’s home
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Later this figure believed to be Orsolya Gaal’s killer, was caught by the same camera dragging her body along the sidewalk after slashing her throat and stabbing her nearly 60 times in her basement

Video outside the home shows Bonola rolling the bag through the quiet neighborhood before police discovered it near Forest Park at around 8 a.m. 
Prosecutors said police were able to trail the blood from the duffle bag to Gaal’s home, where the found the knife hidden in the house as well as Bonola’s jacket. 
After he was arrested and questioned, Bonola allegedly admitted to police that he stabbed Gaal and moved her body, according to court records. 
He also admitted to going to the hospital for a deep cuts he suffered on his hands. 
In a statement following the indictment, Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz said: ‘This heinous murder left two teenagers without a mother and terrified an entire community. 
‘As alleged, this defendant brutally stabbed the victim over 50 times before stuffing her body into a duffel bag – which he then dragged for several blocks in an attempt to dispose of the victim’s remains. 
‘The defendant has now been indicted and arraigned on very serious charges and faces a lengthy prison sentence if convicted.’ 

David Bonola had allegedly gone to the home on April 16, just after midnight, to try and rekindle a two-year affair he was having with Gaal 
When pedestrians found Gaal’s body on a sidewalk the next day, it was stuffed in a hockey bag. Here a police officer covers up the bag that was found by a couple of pedestrians, lying on the sidewalk

The criminal complaint charging Bonola cites both surveillance video footage and his own ‘statements and admissions’ as evidence in the case against him.  
Bonola, who hails from Mexico and had moved to the U.S. more than 20 years ago, was arrested on Thursday. 
Police sources who spoke with the New York Post say he spilled his guts in an entirely ‘matter of fact’ manner – and then proceeded to eat a bagel with cream cheese as if nothing had happened.
‘It was very matter of fact, very thorough, he answered every question they had,’ a police source told the newspaper. At no point did he request a lawyer.
Then, as he was put in a police car on Thursday in front of journalists asking why he killed her, he screamed: ‘F**k you motherf****r!’ 
Bonola and the victim first started seeing each other in 2020 after he worked in the family home where Gaal lived with her 53-year-old husband and two sons. It was an on-off relationship which they rekindled in April, but which had recently ended again. 
According to NYPD sources, Bonola had gone over to the home in an attempt to resurrect the affair after it had come to ‘the end’.
‘A heated argument ensues between the two in the basement. A knife is brandished. A violent struggle ensues, resulting in our victim being stabbed ruthlessly and brutally in excess of 55 times, causing her demise,’ NYPD Chief of Detectives James Essig explained.  
He then retrieved her son’s hockey bag and waited until 4am, then wheeled her body out of the home and dumped it less than half a mile away. He also sent a text to Klein, Gaal’s husband, claiming to have been someone she once sent to jail in a failed attempt to throw police off his scent. 

The 51-year-old mother of two allegedly let Bonola inside the home on April 16 
Gaal with her sons Jamie,17, Leo, 13, and husband Howard Klein on vacation. Leo was in the home at the time of the murder. Howard and Jamie were out of town making campus visits

David Bonola, a 44-year-old Mexican national, entered the US about 21 years ago, according to the NYPD. He had worked as a handyman in Gaal’s home for two years. He was often seen in her neighborhood riding his bike and playing music.
According to charging documents, “I knocked on her door,” Bonola, a heating and air conditioning repairman who had done work for Gaal’s family, allegedly told cops after being taken into custody.
“She opened the door and asked me what I was doing there,” he recalled.
“I told her that I just wanted her to tell me the truth about why she gave me HIV. She said she didn’t have HIV.”
Gaal told him their affair was over, and “grabbed the knife and told him to leave her house or she would kill him”, Bonola claimed.
“I grabbed the knife and cut her from the neck,” Bonola allegedly told police.
“She kept fighting and we fall. She was moving and trying to grab me so I stabbed her in the neck to get her to stop attacking me.”

Gaal was killed in the basement of the Tudor style home in Queens, NY, that she shared with her son and two teen sons. Killer took the body out in her son’s duffel bag and dumped on a sidewalk about a mile from the home 
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Police found this knife believed to be murder weapon [photo], hidden inside Gaal’s house along with suspect Bonola’s jacket 
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NYPD officer stands guard over the bloody clothes recovered from Bonola apt. outside the complex after his arrest. Cops found his blood-soaked boots and t-shirt he was wearing when he committed the crime 

He allegedly said he cleaned up the house with towels and put her in her son’s hockey duffel bag, which was dumped less than a mile from the home.
“In the past, she told me that she had sent a man to jail so I sent a message to her husband pretending to be that guy because I was scared,” Bonola allegedly said.
“I took her laptop because she had sex videos on the laptop. I threw her laptop in the Hudson River where I used to visit her.”
He was arrested on April 21 and charged with murder in the case. Police sources allege that he gave a “matter-of-fact” confession to the slaying.
Bonola had been married once before and had two sons of his own with a woman who had later died. A local said that Bonola had also served in the Mexican army.
A local florist who recognized Gaal from photos that Bonola had showed him in the past, told the NYPost the handyman would often stop by and buy a single red rose each and every time.
‘He was very in love with her. He was talking about her as a very nice girl, very respectful. It’s hard to believe. He was a nice guy, dammit. For me it’s hard to believe.’

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