Woman Found Dead In Duffel Bag; Husband Claims Their Family's 'Lives Are At Risk'

The body of a 51-year-old woman was found shoved inside a duffel bag a half-mile from her home in Queens, New York City, early Saturday.

The victim, identified as Orsolya Gaal, was found at about 8:10 a.m. Saturday by a sidewalk in the upscale Queens neighborhood of Forest Hills, New York Daily News reported.

The mother of two had no ID on her and was covered in blood, police said.

Authorities followed a trail of blood leading back to her home on Juno Street in Forest Hills, and officers made an “emergency entry” into the house, police said.

When police went inside the residence, they found Gaal’s 13-year-old son alone on the top floor. The boy, whose name was not disclosed, 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, Howard Klein, was traveling out of state with the couple’s 17-year-old son at the time of the incident. Both were on their way back to New York, according to police.

The victim's husband and son are allegedly being considered "persons of interest" in her death, the New York Post reported, citing unnamed police sources.

Klein told the outlet Saturday via phone that he was "in the middle of a terrible experience."

The businessman, who recently tweeted about being on a trip with his older son and posted to social media from Portland, Oregon, at 1:36 a.m. Friday, said he was at an airport preparing to fly back to New York.

"[My son] Leo is safe. Thank God [my son] is safe," he said of his younger child, before adding that his family's "lives are at stake."

Klein did not answer when asked about his younger son being questioned by police. "There are concerns about our safety. Our lives are at risk," the man claimed but did not elaborate.

Glenn Van Nostrand, 51, had stumbled upon the duffel bag while walking his two dogs, Rhodesian ridgebacks, through nearby Forest Park. He said he initially thought it was a mannequin after opening the bag and seeing a foot and then a hip, still attached.

However, he determined that he was looking at a body in the fetal position after finding blood in the bag, which he said had wheels.

"I thought, 'Oh, my goodness,' and called police at 8:05 a.m. and said there's a body in this bag,'" Van Nostrand told the New York Post.

The city medical examiner will determine Gaal's cause of death. The investigation into the case is ongoing.