Ex-Cop Not Yet Charged In Wife's Murder, Ex-Girlfriend Describes Past Abuse

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."

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By Ben Yakas in News on March 18, 2011 5:10 PM

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Amanda Hardleech

these macho-psychos should be publicly known for being the worse of
torturers. These people are in my opinion as dangerous as serial Sex Offenders!
WTF!! letting these people get involved in relationships to become the executioners of those that trust them.

Guest

Now the story progresses from description of the crime to the history of the criminal. What about the victim. What was her story? Who was the poor soul?

Where is the outrage of the commentators to the "Brooklyn Man Beaten by Teens in Anti-Gay Attack" story?

Hate crime, anyone?

Hello?

Anyone?

Another woman dies, at the hand of another man, and nobody blinks.

A mother of four.

Perhaps the next article should be: "Death of Mother of Four: Expected, Unremarkable, No Big Deal."

TimeDown

What are you talking about nobody blinks? He is being investigated and presumably when they gather enough evidence he will be indicted if they are not already presenting evidence to a grand jury. Sounds like a lot of people blinked. And it's not like it is unreported. Seems like the media took notice. As for the victim's story they tend to keep that out of the media for one of two reasons: either out of respect for the victim and the victim's family's privacy or because they plan to use it as part of the prosecution. Not everything is some great conspiracy against women.

Guest

I am not a conspiracy theorist. Maybe you are. I never mentioned the word. I'm simply pointing out this society's lack of empathy and outrage when a human being has her life taken away by another human being because of her gender.

guweb2.gonzaga.edu/againsthate...

TimeDown

Uhh...what? Society seems pretty outraged to me. He is going to be indicted for murder which is the most severe crime you can be prosecuted for in NY state courts. I am pretty outraged; I find it horrible that someone's life was taken from her. But he didn't kill her because she was a woman. He killed her because 1. his relationship with her and 2. he clearly is a violent terrible person. If a woman kills her husband is that a hate crime? Have you looked at the hate crime laws? You have to have committed the crime based on the fact that you hate the person's sex, race, etc. He didn't kill her because he hates women. But every single thread you are in you make some claim like that which is why I mention the conspiracy theory thing.

Guest

A lot of comments expressing outrage were posted on the story about the man who lived through a vicious attack by a bunch of thugs who thought he was gay.

Close to zero comments were posted on a story about a woman who died killed by a man.

TimeDown

I think this is more of problem of recent issues. It is not that no one finds this to be terrible but unfortunately it does not surprise anyone. Murders like these have been going on since the dawn of humanity. And while that doesn't make them right or mean they aren't outrageous it means people are more surprised about the anti-gay attack because for years those crimes went unreported or unnoticed. And although women are still not fully treated equally, gay men and gay women are at an even bigger disadvantage. If a gay woman had been attacked in that attack I think you would have seen the same attention paid to it.