Eddy Coello, the former NYPD housing cop who is being called a "person of interest" in the death of his estranged wife Tina Adovasi, met with police yesterday. No charges were filed against Coello, who has a history of domestic incidents, but he adamantly refused to give investigators a DNA sample. "He was asked if he would give a DNA sample. We asked him to look at certain pictures. He refused. And then he left," said Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly. This comes as his ex describes her terrifying abusive relationship with him.
After going missing since last week, Adovasio's body was found Wednesday in a dumpster by teenagers in Westchester County. Adovasio, a mother of four and a maternity nurse at South Shore Medical Center, had recently filed for divorce from Coello, and had taken out a restraining order on him in February. Adovasio's first husband Joe, who helped identify her body, said Coello "should rot in hell." "She feared him, but he had some hold over her...[the police] are plodding toward an inevitable conclusion," said Michael Lease, who was representing Adovasio in the divorce.
Meanwhile, Coello's ex, Glory Perez, told the News all about her abusive three-year relationship with the ex-cop: "He would point the gun to my head and look me in the eye and say, 'Today you are going to die.' I would beg for my life." She said he would often hit her to keep her in line, became irrationally jealous if she looked at other men, and even had to go to the emergency room after one nasty fight. After he threatened to kill her one too many times, she finally left him. "I'm shocked. I can't stop thinking about it. If I would have stayed with him and not left that would have been me. They would be finding my body right now."
