Bonola, who cops say hasn’t been arrested before, was “a handyman who worked for Mrs. Gaal for about two years,” Essig said Thursday. During that time, the two had “an intimate relationship,” he said, adding that they didn’t have any children.
Reporters didn’t get to know the ponytailed suspect very well. As he was led to a waiting car, he spit out expletives.
Bonola, who cops say hasn’t been arrested before, was “a handyman who worked for Mrs. Gaal” and had been “having an intimate relationship for about two years,” Essig said Thursday, per the New York Daily News.
In the last few weeks, they had rekindled their on-off relationship, only to break up again. Chief Julie Morrill, who led the investigation, said Bonola “came back to talk about the relationship again.”
As soon as Gaal came home from an evening out at Lincoln Center and then a drink alone at a local bar, he’s thought to have arrived at her house.
The on-off lover was “either let in by accident, or he used a key he knows about that was hidden in a barbecue.”
An argument breaks out in the basement between the two. Our victim was stabbed 55 times “ruthlessly and brutally,” Essig said. “She was stabbed more than 50 times.”
