NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- A Queens handyman won’t testify before a grand jury in the case of slain Forest Hills mom Orsolya Gaal, who he allegedly stabbed to death this month after the two had a falling-out following a years-long affair, his attorney said in court.
David Bonola, 44, was back in Queens Criminal Court on Tuesday for a short hearing following his arrest and arraignment last week.
“Mr. Bonola will not be testifying before the grand jury,” his court-appointed attorney David Strachan said, according to the New York Post.
Strachan said an indictment against Bonola could be just days away as the grand jury weighs the case.
Bonola, of South Richmond Hill, was arraigned last Thursday on charges of murder, criminal tampering and criminal possession of a weapon. He was remanded without bail to the Department of Correction and reportedly put on suicide watch.
Hours earlier on Thursday, Bonola was arrested for killing Gaal, 51, who police said was stabbed nearly 60 times in the basement of her home in Forest Hills by Bonola as the two fought over an on-and-off affair they’d been having for two years, when he was a handyman for her family.
After the stabbing in the early hours of April 16, Bonola stuffed Gaal’s body in her son’s hockey duffel bag and wheeled the bag through the streets of Forest Hills to a location near Forest Park, where he dumped it, according to police. The bloody bag was found by a dog walker hours later.
Gaal willingly let Bonola into her home but he “refused to leave” and then stabbed her, prosecutors revealed at his arraignment.
Police believe Gaal may have led Bonola to the basement of her home so they wouldn’t wake her 13-year-old son, who was upstairs. Her husband and 17-year-old son were on the West Coast looking at colleges at the time.
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