A Queens mother was stabbed to death in an alleged revenge killing after her killer was released from prison.
Orsolya Gaal’s body was crammed into a sports bag and dumped around half a mile from her luxury home – before the killer used her phone to send a chilling message to her husband.
Gaal was found in Forest Hills, New York, some half a mile from her home, she had around 60 stab wounds, including deep slashes on her throat and defensive wounds to her hands.
Gaal’s husband Howard Klein, who was reportedly on a road trip with his 17-year-old son at the time of the murder, received a chilling text message apparently written by the killer using the victim’s phone. It ended: “Your whole family is next”.
Police have said that Orsolya Gaal’s killer, who viciously stabbed the Queen’s mom to death, may now be identified with the help of a pair of blood-soaked boots. Cops found the boots in a trash can outside the garage of the home where 51-year-old Gaal was butchered, a vital clue that the killer may have left behind.
An unnamed police source says the killing was revenge for her sending him to jail years ago.
Police briefly detained the couple’s 13-year-old son, Leo who is believed to have been in the family’s $2 million home at the time of the murder, but quickly released him without charge.
Police now want to question a former handyman lover of Gaal who had close knowledge of her home. The man, who has not been formally identified as a suspect or a person of interest, even knew where the family kept a spare key.
The two are believed to have been in a relationship that eventually did not work out. It is unclear when the relationship began or ended. Sources claimed that the man was aware of where a spare key was kept in the home and would have been able to access the house without having to break in.
Law enforcement sources have now claimed that the murder may not have been pre-meditated. “[Detectives] don’t think it was a planned murder,” New York Post quoted a source as saying.
More details of this gruesome revenge killing from AWM:
Gaal was believed to have gone out on Saturday night. When she returned home, she was murdered in her basement and dragged out of the home in a bag. Anonymous police sources told PIX11 News that Gaal lied to her son, saying that she was going out with friends when in fact, she had gone out with a man.
After she was brutally killed, the murderer used Gaal’s phone to text her husband, “your whole family is next.” The killer also allegedly told Howard, “Your wife sent me to jail some years ago. I’m back.”
Only hours after Gaal’s remains were found abandoned on the side of the road, her husband told The New York Post, “[My son] Leo is safe. Thank God [my son] is safe. There are concerns about our safety. Our lives are at risk.”
In addition, surveillance footage shows a hooded figure dragging Gaal’s remains out of the house at 4:30 am. The bag is similar to the one used by the thirteen-year-old son and is believed to have been taken by Gaal’s killer.
“Something is not adding up. But there are cameras along the way. They’ll tell if it’s an adult or a child,” the unnamed police source told The New York Post. “She knew the people she was out with. We’re talking to them. We also have to figure out, did she meet some mysterious stranger along the way?”
A Good Samaritan found Gaal’s remains along the side of the road. Once they saw the blood on the duffel bag, they called the police. Cops received the urgent call at 8:11 am.
The murder occurred during a surge in crime across all five boroughs of New York City. Hopefully, police are able to track down Gaal’s killer and protect her family from further violence.
While they have identified a potential person of interest in the case, no arrests have been made. Police are offering a $3,500 reward for information leading to an arrest.
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