The NYPD supervisor said that a neighbor told detectives Gaal headed into Manhattan around 6 p.m. Friday evening, saying she was going to see the opera. She had attended the opera at Lincoln Center in the past and police were able to place her in the vicinity on Friday. But police were not able to establish immediately that she attended that night’s performance of Mozart’s
Le Nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro).
Police did determine that she returned to Forest Hills around 11 p.m. She spent around 45 minutes in a bar near her home and appeared to be waiting for somebody, the supervisor said. (
The New York Post was first to
report on the bar visit and some other details in this story, which conformed with what The Daily Beast learned independently.)
According to the supervisor, police are less convinced that the motive is to be found in texts PIX11
reported Klein received after the killing indicating that the “whole family is next”—and that the killer was seeking revenge for Gaal having supposedly caused him to be jailed years before.
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