David Bonola, handyman who butchered NYC mom Orsolya Gaal and stuffed her body in a bag, admits to killing
A handyman in the country illegally on Wednesday admitted to killing his former lover, married Queens mom Orsolya Gaal — whose butchered body was found stuffed in a hockey bag dumped near her home.
David Bonola, 44, agreed to do 25 years behind bars as he copped to first-degree manslaughter for the brutal slaying of Gaal, who was knifed more than 50 times in her Forest Hills home on April 16.
Bonola — who allegedly claimed he killed his former lover because he believed she’d given him HIV during their two-year affair — withdrew a previous not guilty plea in Queens Criminal Court.
“By pleading guilty you are stipulating to this court that on or about April 16, 2022, here in the county Queens, you did cause serious physical injury to Orsolya Gaal, you caused the death of Mrs. Gall by stabbing her,” Justice Michael B. Aloise asked. “Did you do that?”
“Yes, sir,” Bonola, a Mexican national, replied through a Spanish interpreter.
“You understand it all ends here?” the judge said.
“Thank you,” said Bonola.
Bonola had worked as an air conditioning repairman for the family as he carried on an affair with the mother of two. Gaal, 51, had gone out with friends in Manhattan and then stopped at a local bar before she got home at around 12:30 a.m. the day of her murder, prosecutors said.
The pair argued before Bonola slit Gaal’s throat, then viciously stabbed her and dismembered her. Eerie surveillance footage caught the killer wheeling Gaal’s body in her own son’s hockey bag.
Cops recovered the body the next morning near Union Turnpike and they followed the trail of blood back to the crime scene, according to prosecutors.
“The heinous killing devastated an entire family, left two boys without a mother, and horrified the surrounding community,” Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz said in a statement, thanking her prosecutors in negotiating the plea deal.
“In pleading guilty, the defendant has accepted responsibility and is being held fully accountable for his criminal actions,” Katz said. “We express our sincerest condolences to the victim’s family and hope that today’s plea will allow them to begin to heal.”
Defense attorney David Strachal of the Queens Defenders declined comment to The Post.
Sentencing is scheduled Nov. 16, and the family of the victim is expected to give a statement to the court at that time.