Tuesday 10 May 2022 09:38 PM Handyman lover of married Queens mom claimed he killed her because he believed ... trends now
The handyman lover of a married Queens mom claimed he killed her because he thought she had given him HIV during their two year affair and tossed her laptop into the Hudson river because it had explicit videos.
David Bonola, 44, of Queens, was arraigned on Tuesday on a 13-count indictment for the April 16 murder of Orsolya Gaal, 51, who was stabbed 58 times in her basement and stuffing the body in a duffle bag while her son was upstairs.
According to the court documents, when detectives questions him on April 20, Bonoal said, 'She gave me HIV.'
'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.'
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.
David Bonola (center), 44, of Queens, was arraigned on Tuesday on a 13-count indictment for the April 16 murder of Orsolya Gaal, 51
Gaal, a mother of two, was found in a duffle bag in the middle of the street in Queens. Police said she had been brutally stabbed nearly 60 times
If convicted, the handyman faces up to 25 years-to-life in prison
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'.
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.
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,
