‘Get a new handyman’: Haunting refrigerator note written by murdered Queens mom

Murdered Queens mother Orsolya Gaal left a note on her fridge reminding herself to ‘get a new handyman’ days before she was stabbed to death by her handyman lover in a frenzied attack. 

David Bonola, 44, slashed Gaal’s throat then stabbed her in the body more than 50 times in a fury on April 15th. He then stuffed her body in her son’s hockey bag and wheeled it down the street in Forest Hills, Queens, leaving it for a dog-walker to find the next day. 

Bonola was charged yesterday with the murder and with criminal tampering. He made a chilling confession to police on Wednesday night, then ate a cream cheese bagel, according to sources cited by The New York Post. 

Bonola had been Gaal’s handyman. The pair met when she hired him to do work on the home where she lived with her husband Howard and their two sons. 

They had an on-off romance for two years until last week. It seems that it had gone sour again despite the pair reconciling in April. 

When police searched the married mother’s house, they found the note on the fridge, according to The Daily Beast. 

David Bonola, 44, was arraigned in Queens Supreme Court on Thursday in the murder of Orsolya Gaal in her Forest Hills home

David Bonola appeared to have a bandage on one of his hands in the surveillance video video

David Bonola is shown on Thursday being marched out of the 112th Precinct in Queens for the murder of his girlfriend, married mother-of-two Orsolya Gaal 

David Bonola, 44, was arrested on Thursday in the early hours of the morning. He was spotted by police on Wednesday night and brought in for questioning then confessed to murdering Orsolya Gaal, 51, in her home on April 16 shortly before 1am

Queens District Attorney Katz revealed on Thursday night that he ‘slashed’ her throat and then proceeded to stab her elsewhere on the body more than 50 times. 

‘Two boys are left without a mother and a young teenager faces the added trauma of being home when this heinous murder took place,’ Katz said in a statement.

‘As alleged, the defendant stabbed the victim over 50 times and then attempted to dispose of the body by stuffing it into a duffel bag and dragging it across a quiet residential neighborhood – leaving a trail of blood and a terrified community,’ she added.

In a surveillance video just hours after the murder, Bonola could be seen walking along 114th Street near his apartment in Richmond Hill, just after 6 a.m. on Saturday morning. 

Bonola in the video can be seen with a bandage wrapped around his left hand as he makes his way down the street before heading into his apartment. 

Later on Saturday, Bonola allegedly headed to a CityMD in order to receive help for cuts on his hands. He was referred Bellevue Hospital after urgent care doctors said the wounds were too deep for them to treat.

Gaal’s home in Forest Hills, Queens. Tributes to the slain mother remain outside on a tree. Her husband and sons have not returned to the property 

Police say that Gaal and Bonola, who had done handyman work for her, had been having an on-off affair for two years before he murdered her with a kitchen knife in her basement last week, while her 13-year-old son was upstairs.

According to the NYPD, Bonola had gone over to the home in an attempt to resurrect the affair as the relationship had come to ‘the end’. 

The criminal complaint charging Bonola cites both surveillance video footage and his own ‘statements and admissions’ as evidence in the case against him.  

Bonola, who hails from Mexico and had moved to the U.S. more than 20 years ago, was arrested on Thursday in the early hours of the morning. 

He was spotted by police on Wednesday night and brought in for questioning, where cops say he confessed to murdering Gaal in her home on April 16 shortly before 1 a.m. 

Police sources who spoke with the New York Post say he spilled his guts in an entirely ‘matter of fact’ manner – and then proceeded to eat a bagel with cream cheese as if nothing had happened.

‘It was very matter of fact, very thorough, he answered every question they had,’ a police source told the newspaper. At no point did he request a lawyer.

Then, as he was put in a police car on Thursday in front of journalists asking why he killed her, he screamed: ‘F**k you motherf****r!’ 

Bonola who confessed to the murder to the NYPD on Thursday following his arrest was arraigned in Queens court

Bonola, who hails from Mexico and had moved to the U.S. more than 20 years ago, was arrested on Thursday in the early hours of the morning

Bonola and the victim first started seeing each other in 2020 after he worked in the family home where Gaal lived with her 53-year-old husband Howard and two sons. It was an on-off relationship which they rekindled in April, but which had recently ended again. 

According to NYPD sources, Bonola had gone over to the home in an attempt to resurrect the affair after it had come to ‘the end’.

On Friday night, not long…