Surveillance footage taken near the home of a murdered Queens mother caught an unknown person dragging a bloody hockey bag with what police describe as the slaughtered remains of the woman inside.
Orsolya Gaal, 51, was found dead in his bag at 8.11am on Saturday morning. The bag was found less than a mile away on the sidewalk next to a busy highway.
No one has been arrested for her death.
Police questioned her 13-year-old son but he was released without charge.
Her husband, stock consultant Howard Klein, and her other son were out of town attending college at the time of her murder.
Police believe Orsolya went out on Saturday night, possibly with a man, and then returned home.
She was killed in the basement of her house and then dragged in her bag, they say. Anonymous sources told PIX11 News that she had told her son she was going out with friends, but was in fact with another man.
After her murder, the police believe that the killer used her phone to send a message to her husband and say “your whole family is next”.
Surveillance footage shows someone in a hooded sweatshirt moving the bag near her home around 4.30am. The bag is similar to the one used by her 13-year-old son, but police have not yet released the identity of the man in the video.
“Something does not add up. But there are cameras along the way. “They will say if he is an adult or a child,” an anonymous police source told the New York Post.
“She knew the people she was dating. We talk to them. We also need to understand, did he meet a mysterious stranger along the way? they added.
A shocking surveillance photo captured the moment a stranger pulled a bloody hockey bag, filled with what police say were the remains of a Queens mother, onto a sidewalk Friday night
Gaal’s body was found in a blood-soaked bag in Queens early Saturday morning, near a popular hiking trail on Metropolitan Avenue in Forest Hills, on a road section that crosses a local park. In the photo is the sidewalk where the body was found
Gaal is pictured with her husband, Howard Klein, and two sons, aged 13 and 17, in December
A police officer hides the hockey bag in which Gaal was found entangled on Saturday morning.
The family in Forrest Hills, Queens, on Saturday morning after her body was found nearby
After questioning the 13-year-old, the police found out that he was not aware of the crime. The child was later released, police said, after finding that the body in the bag belonged to Gaal.
Detectives are now investigating the horrific discovery, which was made by two different locals on a road section that crosses a local park.
Gaal was spotted by neighbor John Blankson walking into the yard with her dog Friday night, according to the New York Daily News.
“The sun came out, Friday was very nice,” Blankson said. “We were out. “We didn’t really talk to her – we were just relaxed outside – but she was out with the dog.”
This was the last time Blankson or his family saw Gaal. He also said that everyone in his house woke up very late on Friday night.
Police told the Daily News that Klein and his son had been informed of Gaal’s death and were returning to New York.
The Daily News had previously reported that police were investigating the possibility of a male relative killing Gaal, citing law enforcement sources at the time.
Gaal with her husband Howard, who runs a stock consulting firm, and their two sons
Gaal’s husband, Howard, and her eldest son were out of town attending college when she was murdered.
The bag remains covered in the streets as detectives try to figure out who was responsible for Gaal’s death
“He knew the people he was out with,” a source told Gaal. “We are talking to them. We also need to understand, did he meet a mysterious stranger along the way?
Gaal had no identity on her when she was found, police said on the night of the New York Daily News, adding that police officers who followed the trail made an “emergency entry” into the woman’s home in an attempt to reach the depths of the horrific discovery. .
Police said a trace of blood from the bag soaked in blood led them to Gaal’s home, located in a fenced community on Juno Street, half a mile from where her body was found.
Gaal’s husband, identified by neighbors as Howard Klein, was reportedly traveling abroad with the couple’s 17-year-old eldest son, the man tweeted earlier this week, according to the man.
Detectives are now investigating the gruesome find, made by two different locals near the busy street (pictured)
Pictured is the house in Forest Hills Gardens, a fenced community half a mile from where the body was found. A trace of blood from their bag led to a house in the private complex cul de sac, which belongs to the family of four
Gaal attends the College of International Administration and Business at the Business School in Budapest
Gaal is Hungarian. She and her husband Howard are believed to have met while living in Budapest for work. They appear on their wedding day, left
When he arrived from the Post by telephone, Klein said he was “in the middle of a terrible experience” and was about to fly back to New York.
‘[My son] Leo is safe. Thank God [my son] “She is safe,” he said of the 13-year-old.
“There are concerns about our safety. “Our lives are in danger.”
According to Gaal’s Facebook page, he attended the College of International Administration and Business at the Business School in Budapest and probably has a family in Hungary.
Many photos posted by Gaal show the woman with the family dog traveling to Hungary, Croatia, China and Guatemala. Posts also show the mother speaking Hungarian.
In February, she contributed to a fundraiser held by her youngest son for breast cancer organization Susan G. Komen, the Daily News reported.
In a YouTube video posted last month, the 13-year-old explained that he started the fundraiser as a mitzvah bar to honor his paternal grandmother, who died of cancer in 2010.
“My grandmother Deborah Klein died after a five-year battle with breast cancer at the age of 76,” the child was quoted as saying. “I was only 18 at the time, so I never had the opportunity to meet my grandmother Debbie.”
Meanwhile, her husband’s social media accounts indicate that he is from Long Island and that he is a trader in lithium, a metal used to power electronics.
Husband Howard Klein is the founder of RK Equity, according to his LinkedIn profile, where he currently works as a partner. His profile describes the company as a “New York-based boutique capital consulting firm.”
He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan in 1990, where he was on a trip with his 17-year-old son, and his wife was killed and dismembered.
No arrests have been made as part of the investigation, which is still ongoing.
A local resident was the first to fall on the horrific scene, police said. Observing the blood, the Good Samaritan called the messengers at about 8:11 a.m.
Police arrived at the scene after a second call, according to another local, Glenn Van Nostrand, who allegedly met the body.
Van Nostrand, 51, who was walking in the park with his two hounds, told the New York Post he noticed what he said was a black Bauer hockey bag as he headed down the busy road to a nearby house.
The troubling discovery comes as New York continues to struggle with a wave of violent crime that has seen major crimes rise by almost 50 percent in the past year.
Mr Nostrandt did not think much of the discovery at first, he told the newspaper, but the strange behavior of the two hounds prompted him to look inside. “They are fragrant hounds,” he said. “They see the world through their noses.”
When he opened the bag, he found the creased body, which he said was packed in the bag in an embryonic position.
He said: “It looked like a mannequin to me. He did not look very meaty. It looked more like a crash test dummy. I thought maybe some equipment was used for something. I did not think of anything. ”
The Queens resident then said he noticed black jeans down to the ankle, a belt and a woman’s waist and realized it was a real body, he finally noticed blood on the other side of the bag after opening it.
“I thought, ‘My God,’ and I called the police,” he said, adding that he told the messengers who answered his call: “There is a corpse in this bag.”
He said that an “other gentleman” who was not identified by the police had called earlier for the body bag, but the police had not reached the scene at that point.
Police officers who arrived at the scene transported the remains to the Office of the General Medical Examiner on Saturday morning for an autopsy-necropsy in order to determine the causes of death.
The incident is the latest in a horrific rise in crime that has plagued the city since the beginning of the pandemic – a wave of crime, NYPD police commissioner Keechant Sewell says comes from “criminals’ perception that there are no consequences, even for serious crimes. ‘
Last week, Senior Police Officer Sewell criticized the recent trend toward policies such as bail reform and Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg’s stance to reduce or drop charges for many crimes.
‘[The justice system] it must be fair, but it must first and foremost favor the people it is designed to protect and protect. “When the focus is lost on these people – the New Yorkers who deserve to be free from fear – policies fail to achieve their primary purpose, which is public safety,” Sewell told a news conference on April 6. .
“Every day New Yorkers need more help. Our police need more help. We need help from every corner of the criminal justice system and from all those who live, work or visit …