Queens woman was found dead, stuffed in a duffel bag on city parkland a half-mile from her Forest Hills home, police said Saturday.
Orsolya Gaal, 51, was found about 8:10 a.m. Saturday by a sidewalk on Metropolitan Ave. near Forest Park Drive. The site is within the boundaries of densely-wooded Forest Park between Kew Gardens and Forest Hills.
Gaal had no ID on her, and was covered in blood, police said.
Police followed a trail of blood to her home a half-mile away, on Juno St. in Forest Hills, and officers made an “emergency entry” into the house, police said.
Inside the home, cops found Gaal’s 13-year-old son alone on the top floor. He told officers his mom lived in the house, but he didn’t know where she was. He was questioned in the case and released, police said.
Gaal’s husband, identified by neighbors as Howard Klein, was traveling out of state with the couple’s 17-year-old son, Klein’s Twitter account indicated. Police said Klein and his son were on their way back to New York.
Gaal attended a business school in Budapest, and her Facebook page suggests she had family in Hungary. Many of her pictures show her with her dog, and recount travels in Hungary, Croatia and Guatemala.
In February, she contributed to her 13-year-old son’s fundraiser for Susan G. Komen, a foundation that raises money for breast cancer research.