Mother found dead in a duffel bag after being stabbed 60 times in Queens

A mother of two was found dead inside of a duffel bags blocks away from her home in Queens, New York, on Saturday at around 8:00 a.m., according to the New York Police Department. 

Hungarian native Orsolya Gaal, 51, was found after a dog walker called 911 reporting a suspicious bag with blood on it, reported Fox News. Gaal was found with 58 stab wounds to the neck, torso, arm, and hand. 

Upon finding the bag, police traced a blood trail several blocks to a home in the residential neighborhood of Forrest Hills. They believe she was murdered in the basement of the house. 

“It’s a mystery,” an NYPD official told The Post. “Now it’s a question of piecing together everything she did that night.”

So far, police have determined that Gaal went out with her friends on Friday evening and had safely arrived home before midnight. On early Saturday morning, a surveillance camera caught an individual dragging the duffel bag, according to the New York Post. 

“[Then] around 4:30 a.m. [Saturday], you see somebody rolling this [duffel bag] down the sidewalk from multiple cameras,’’ the high-ranking NYPD source said.

Gaal’s husband and son were in Portland when she was killed. Police found her 13-year-old son in the top floor of their home. The boy was taken into custody and was later released. Police do not believe he left the house at any time throughout the night. 

However, Gaal’s husband, Howard Klein, allegedly received a message from his wife’s phone shortly after the murder saying, “Yor whole family is next.”

Police had previously responded to a 911 call in May 2020, after Klein reported that his wife was missing. Klein called later to report that his wife had been found. 

Similarly, their eldest son, 17, went missing in July 2021 but was found half an hour later.  

The New York City Medical Examiner’s Office determined that Gaal’s death was a homicide due to the “sharp force injuries of the neck.”

No suspects have been named.