I just do not understand why some people continue to refuse to believe that this poor woman could possibly have had any kind of relationship with the handyman murderer, despite the definitive statement from LE that there was one, and assume that LE is just taking his word for it. That isn't how they work. If they did not have some evidence that there was or had been an intimate relationship, they would have either said nothing, or said Bonola claims...if you don't believe that statement from them, why would you believe any others?
This is the difference between investigators and people on the web. Investigators don't project their own feelings if 2 people could be involved or not. They go where evidence leads them. They don't take everything as truth, they gather evidence.
They don't decide there's "no possible way" the victim could ever give the killer the time of day. They know more than we do, and if there is evidence of an on again/off again intimate relationship, then that's what it was, even if other people can't believe or accept it.
I trust the professional detectives in the case to figure out what all was going on.
This is my view, as well. The NYPD have seen it all. They don't make decisions based on neighborhood gossip. They don't make decisions based on just the word of a murderer. They've heard lies from murderers all their careers. The NYC detectives will piece together evidence and come to a conclusion based on the totality of the evidence that they have.
It seems clear to me that this is what they have done. We may not like it, we may not understand it, but it is established by the NYPD that OG did indeed engage in an affair with this character.
I believe 1000% that she had a husband and sons whom she loved, at least at some point, and what appeared to be a loving family.
Who can say why she strayed? It could be anything.
It could be that she found him very physically appealing. It could be that they bonded over being immigrants with English as a second language. Maybe she found him funny and delightful. Maybe it was Covid curtailing her usual outings.
I don't know and I don't need to know. It's dreadful that it happened. It makes her husband's burden even more difficult. It must be confusing to her sons. She died at this man's hands. I'm sure it was regretted by everyone it touched, beginning with Orsolya and excluding the murderer.
IMO though, to refuse to believe it's true because we can't imagine ourselves in this position is not recognizing truth.
As an aside, if Bonola was a certified handyman, in the local handyman union, in NYC they make decent money. And as for his looks, I personally don't think he's attractive at all, but taste is subjective and maybe she found him compelling.
I'm certainly not defending him in the slightest, obviously, but thinking it can't be true because others think he's poor and ugly doesn't change what happened. And personally it makes me sad for all the decent and loving men out there who are discarded immediately for being "poor and ugly."
JMO