Video Shows Unidentified Person Dragging Duffel Bag Hours Before Queens Woman Found Dead

The police on Sunday released shocking surveillance footage showing a mysterious figure lugging a hockey duffel bag along the sidewalk down the street, hours before a 51-year-old Queens woman's body was found inside it.

The New York Police Department (NYPD) also had footage that showed the victim, identified as Orsolya Gaal, spending some of her final hours in her yard before going out with her friends.

"It’s a mystery," an NYPD official told the New York Post on Sunday about the death of Gaal. "Now it’s a question of piecing together everything she did that night."

The body of the mother of two was found inside a duffel bag near a popular Forest Hills walking path early Saturday.

Though Gaal’s 13-year-old younger son was seen being taken away in handcuffs shortly after the body was found, he was later questioned and released.

According to the NYPD, Gaal went out with her friends Friday and returned home before midnight. Shortly later, her killer arrived. "We’re pulling video and receipts from those places," another NYPD source told the news outlet.

"[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. "[Cops] actually traced it backward from the scene to the house," the source said, referring to a blood trail from the bag. "She knew the people she was out with. We’re talking to them. We also have to figure out, did she meet some mysterious stranger along the way?"

The detectives have found no sign of a break-in at the house, and they believe Gaal knew her killer. The hockey bag containing her corpse was discovered about four hours after the person appeared on the footage. Following the discovery, the officers followed the blood trail from it to the side door of Gaal’s Juno Street home.

Meanwhile, the victim's neighbors said they were shocked by the violence.

"I saw her [Friday] in her backyard," John Blankson told the New York Post. “We share a common backyard with [her] dog.’’

Reports quoting police sources mentioned Gaal's husband and son were no longer persons of interest in the case, despite being considered suspects initially.

The police said they previously responded to a 911 call at the house after Gaal's husband Howard Klein reported his wife missing on May 29, 2020, the New York Post reported. The husband later told the cops his wife had been found. The couple’s older son also went missing in 2004 but was later found, too, the sources said.