NEW YORK (1010 WINS/WCBS 880) -- The handyman accused of brutally stabbing Orsolya Gaal more than 50 times at her Queens home and wheeling her body away in her son's duffle bag last April pleaded guilty Wednesday to manslaughter and will be sentenced this month, the district attorney said.
David Bonola, 44, copped to one count of first-degree manslaughter in Queens Supreme Court and will be sentenced Nov. 16, Queens D.A. Melinda Katz said.
Queens Supreme Court Justice Michael Aloise said he’d sentence Bonola, of South Richmond Hill, to 25 years in prison, followed by five years post-release supervision.
Katz said the “heinous killing devastated an entire family, left two boys without a mother, and horrified the surrounding community.”
“We express our sincerest condolences to the victim’s family and hope that today’s plea will allow them to begin to heal,” Katz said.
The dismembered body of Gaal, 51, was discovered in a sports duffel bag near Forest Park on April 16.
Hours before Gaal’s body was found, Bonola went to her Juno Street home in Forest Hills at 12:30 a.m. and got into an argument with her, prosecutors said. Officials have previously said the fight was about an affair between the two.
Bonola was a handyman who’d done work at the home on several occasions. During the heated argument, Bonola slashed Gaal’s throat and stabbed her more than 50 times, according to prosecutors.
Hours later at 4:15 a.m. a nearby home’s security camera captured Bonola wheeling a hockey duffel bag belonging to one of the Gaal’s sons.
The bag was found, with Gaal’s remains inside, around 8 a.m. at Metropolitan Avenue and Union Turnpike, on the edge of Forest Park, where Bonola’s jacket was later recovered.
Police followed a trail of blood from the bag back to Gaal’s home.
Prosecutors said Bonola ultimately made incriminating statements during questioning in the days that followed, revealing that he'd stabbed Gaal and moved her body.
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