On a quiet tree-lined street in Forest Hills, crime scene tape wraps around a Tudor home. 

It's the home of 51-year-old Orsolya Gaal, the last place she was seen alive before her body was stuffed into a duffle bag and tossed on a street a half mile away.

On Monday, the police investigation into her murder remained ongoing, leaving the community anxious. 

“Everybody is on edge because apparently a killer is running around, just butchered someone yards away from our homes and he is still at large and we don’t know who it is or what the motivation was,” said Nick Bais, who lives across the street from Gaal’s home. 

A trail of blood from the duffle bag lead police back to Gaal’s Forest Hills home Saturday morning.

Police were seen leaving with a box of evidence on Monday. 

They say Gaal was home this weekend with her younger son, while her husband and older son were out of town. 

Theodora Grafas lives in the home behind Gaal and her family and has known her for the last decade.

“She was a lovely lady. Always very attentive to her family, her kids. Just an amazing person and she is going to be missed from all of us that knew her,” Grafas said. “She was really just wonderful.”

The medical examiner ruled Gaal’s cause of death as stab wounds to the neck. 

Neighbors say they were a normal family.

“I never expected anything like that to happen,” explained Grafas. “I know she never liked to go out late, she liked to run and jog but never late and then when the police knocked on the door, they didn’t even know who it was. I was shocked, very shocked,” she went on to say. 

A small memorial with flowers has begun to grow around the tree in their front yard as police continue to investigate what happened and why the mother of two was killed.