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November 2, 2022 | 11:44 a.m
A handyman in the country on Wednesday illegally admitted to killing his former lover, married Queens mother Orsolya Gaal – whose butchered body was found in a hockey bag dumped near her home.
David Bonola, 44, agreed to serve 25 years behind bars when he was convicted of first-degree involuntary manslaughter in the brutal killing of Gaal, who was stabbed to death more than 50 times at her Forest Hills home on April 16.
Bonola – who allegedly claimed he killed his former lover because he believed she had infected him with HIV during their two-year affair – withdrew an earlier plea of not guilty in the Queens Criminal Court.
“By pleading guilty, you declare in this Court that on or about April 16, 2022 here in the County of Queens you caused serious physical injury to Orsolya Gaal and caused the death of Ms Gall by stabbing her.” said Judge Michael asked B. Aloise. “Did you do this?”
David Bonola pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter for killing Orsolya Gaal, Queens’ mother, in April.
“Yes sir,” Bonola, a Mexican national, replied through a Spanish interpreter.
“Do you understand that this is where it all ends?” said the judge.
“Thank you,” Bonola said.
Bonola had been working for the family as an air conditioning repairman as he was having an affair with the mother of two. Gaal, 51, went out with friends in Manhattan and then stopped at a local bar before returning home around 12:30 p.m. on the day of her murder, prosecutors said.
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Orsolya Gaal was killed by her ex-lover David Bonola.
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Bonola cut Gaal’s throat, then brutally stabbed and dismembered her.
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Orsolya Gaal’s body was found in a hockey bag near her home.
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The pair argued before Bonola slit Gaal’s throat, then brutally stabbed and dismembered her. Eerie surveillance footage shows the killer moving Gaal’s body around in her own son’s hockey bag.
According to prosecutors, police officers found the body near Union Turnpike the next morning and followed the trail of blood back to the scene.
“The heinous murder devastated an entire family, left two boys without a mother and appalled the surrounding community,” Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz said in a statement, thanking her prosecutors for negotiating the plea.
Gaal’s dismembered body was found in a hockey bag that belonged to one of her two sons.orsolya.gaal.9/Facebook
“With his guilty plea, the defendant has accepted responsibility and will be held fully accountable for his criminal actions,” said Katz. “We offer our sincere condolences to the family of the victim and hope today’s request will allow them to begin healing.”
Queens Defenders defenseman David Strachal declined to comment to The Post.
Sentencing is scheduled for November 16 and the victim’s family is expected to make a statement in court at that time.
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