[NY] Before she was killed, Tina Adovasio said "If anything happens to me, look at him."

Tina Adovasio, 40, was last seen leaving the tidy Throgs Neck home she shared with her husband, former [NYPD] housing cop Edwin Coello, about 9 p.m. Friday... "I heard some yelling around 8 o'clock or so Friday night, but I didn't know where it was coming from," said downstairs neighbor and landlord... "He beat her up a couple of times... The last time, she was black and blue. She used to run to my apartment"... Al Jones of 1010 WINS reported that four domestic violence complaints over the course of the couple’s rocky marriage have prompted numerous visits by police... Bronx court records show he once went berserk in their home while she cradled their crying 1-year-old daughter... Coello was pushed out of the force in 2000 amid reports he abused his first wife. She was holed up with her son Wednesday in her Bronx home, too terrified to talk... Adovasio told her divorce lawyer that her husband, Eddy Coello, would be to blame if she were ever harmed. "If anything happens to me, look at him," Tina Adovasio said last month as she took out an order of protection against Coello...

Video: Tina found

SEARCH ON FOR BRONX MOTHER OF 4 MISSING SINCE FRIDAY
CBSNewYork
March 15, 2011
[Excerpts] Police are searching for a Bronx mother of four who has been missing since Friday night. Authorities said Tina Adovasio was last seen at her home at 1166 Edison Ave. in the Bronx at around 9 p.m. on the night she disappeared. Tuesday night, investigators said the 40-year-old nurse had an argument with her estranged husband — former police officer Edwin Coello. Al Jones of 1010 WINS reported that four domestic violence complaints over the course of the couple’s rocky marriage have prompted numerous visits by polic... “We hope there’s a glimmer of hope in that she’s still alive and it’s not for a bad reason that she left her kids behind,” one woman said. “You wonder what’s going to happen to her kids now if mom’s not found.” Still others told CBS 2's Hazel Sanchez that they have heard altercations between the couple. “We heard the neighbors, this lady and the gentleman fighting here a couple of days ago... I’ve heard them fighting constantly in the past few weeks.” Coello told police that he and his wife were having an argument about her coming home late when she took off... Adovasio is described as 5-foot-5 and 135 pounds with a slim build. She was last seen wearing a black jacket, blue jeans and Ugg boots... here]

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TINA ADOVASIO, ESTRANGED WIFE OF EX-NYPD COP WITH DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
New York Daily News
By Kerry Burke, Alison Gendar, Bob Kappstatter and Joe Kemp
March 15th 2011
Updated: March 16th 2011
[Excerpts] A Bronx mother of four is missing and feared dead - and investigators are eying her husband, a former NYPD cop with a history of domestic violence... Tina Adovasio, 40, was last seen leaving the tidy Throgs Neck home she shared with her husband, former housing cop Edwin Coello, about 9 p.m. Friday... Coello, 40, told police he had an argument with the nurse and mother to his 5-year-old daughter before she stormed out of their Edison Ave. apartment, sources said. The couple is known for their rocky history; records show Adovasio filed for divorce last month. Coello has been busted at least three times for domestic incidents against Adovasio. "He had beat her before," Adovasio's mother, Adrienne Susco, told The News. "She needed stitches and had two black eyes," she said of an incident that happened a couple of years ago. Coello - who was forced to quit in 2000 after reports of domestic abuse against his first wife - was questioned about Adovasio's disappearance. Detectives asked if they could search his car, but Coello clammed up and refused, sources said. He was later released because of lack of evidence... "He lied and told the cops she had run off before and left the kids," Susco said. "Never, ever would she leave her children." Susco said her daughter took the four children to Florida to get away for a couple of weeks, but that was all. "Oh, my God, I can't even say how devastating this is. She was so beautiful," said Susco... [Full article here]

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EDWIN COELLO, EX-NYPD COP WITH ABUSIVE PAST, EYED IN DISSAPEARANCE OF ESTRANGED WIFE TINA ADOVASIO
New York Daily News
By Kerry Burke, Alison Gendar, Bob Kappstatter and Joe Kemp
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS
Wednesday, March 16th 2011
[Excerpts] A Bronx mother of four is missing and feared dead - and investigators are eying her husband, a former NYPD cop with a history of domestic violence, sources said. Tina Adovasio, 40, was last seen leaving the tidy Throgs Neck home she shared with her husband, former housing cop Edwin Coello, about 9 p.m. Friday, sources said. Police sources told the Daily News a blurry image of a man believed to be Coello was caught on tape dragging a duffel bag "big enough to hold a body" from the home on the same night. Investigators tracked Adovasio's cell phone and got hits in High Bridge and Morris Heights on Monday, leading them to believe that her body may have been dumped in one location and her belongings in another... Cops are expected to launch an even wider search Wednesday for Adovasio's body... Late Tuesday, police found Coello's Nissan Maxima in the Bronx and got a search warrant to look for evidence. His lawyer, Renee Hill, said Coello has fully cooperated. "He's the one who filed the report," Hill said. "He doesn't know where she is"... [Full article here]

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NYPD INVESTIGATES MISSING BX. MOM'S HOME FOR FORENSIC EVIDENCE
New York Post
By Robert Fredericks
Last Updated: 6:49 PM, March 16, 2011
Posted: 4:12 PM, March 16, 2011
[Excerpts] ...Police sources say the 40-year-old maternity nurse's estranged husband Eddy Coello is a "person of interest" in her disappearance, and Bronx court records show he once went berserk in their home while she cradled their crying 1-year-old daughter Mia, smashing trophies and breaking her phone against a wall. Collo, arrested twice on domestic violence charges involving the vivacious mother of four, was "yelling and cursing" when he grabbed her cordless phone and shoved her aside the morning of Feb. 26, 2006... "Wait till you see what I am going to do to your f---ing car. I am going to break all the windows," he screamed, the complaint says... "I heard some yelling around 8 o'clock or so Friday night, but I didn't know where it was coming from," said downstairs neighbor and landlord... "He beat her up a couple of times... The last time, she was black and blue. She used to run to my apartment." Cops were poring over recent building surveillance video that shows Coello exiting with a bag or rug sources said... Coello was forced to retire from the department in 2000 over a domestic incident with a previous wife. The arrests include an assault charge in 2007. In 2006 -- the year they were married - he was arrested for criminal mischief. He also was charged with harassment in 2005, but it was unclear if she was the victim. Neighbors said Coello still lived there off and on, but that they were headed for divorce because of the fights. The pair have a 5-year-old daughter together... Adovasio has three other children... [Tina's former husband and father of her other 3 children] Joe Adovasio called Coello -- who now works as a physician's assistant in White Plains -- "an animal." "He beat her up about five years ago," Adovasio told The Post. "I guess she was afraid of him. I actually told him, 'You even touch my kids, I'll kill you.' " The ex and several other sources said Tina received an order of protection against Coello after the beating. "She called me, and I rushed over... She didn't want the kids to see how she looked, with a fractured jaw, three stitches on her eyebrow and black eyes"... [Full article here]

HOPES OF FINDING MISSING BRONX MOM FADE AS SEARCH CONTINUES
CBSNewYork
March 16, 2011
[Excerpts] ...The fact that authorities now think Adovasio may not be alive was a jarring development for people who saw her every day. “That’s terrible, that’s really terrible. I don’t wish that on anyone,” [a neighbor] said weeping... “We heard the neighbors — this lady and the gentleman fighting here couple of days ago. I’ve heard them fighting, you know, constantly in the past few weeks,” another neighbor said. Investigators said they have been removing evidence, including possible DNA samples... “They said the bloodhounds was going crazy in our dumpster,” [a nearby] store clerk told CBS 2... [Full article here]

VIDEOTAPE SHOWS HOUSE OF MISSING WOMAN
Washington State Journal
By Sean Gardiner
March 16, 2011
[Excerpts] ...Ms. Adovasio is the mother of Mr. Coello's 5-year-old daughter and Mr. Coello's second wife. She filed for divorce last month. Mr. Coello was released after being questioned this week by detectives. Investigators have seized Mr. Coello's car and are searching it for possible evidence... [Full article here]

A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE: EDWIN COELLO
New York Daily News
Thursday, March 17th 2011, 12:27 AM
[Excerpts] Edwin Coello worked for the NYPD. Quits amid an investigation into claims he beat his first wife... 2005: Coello claimed Tina Adovasio attacked him with a pen. He calls the police, but she is not arrested... 2006: Coello arrested for attacking Adovasio. Pleaded guilty to [PLEA BARGAINED DOWN] second-degree harassment; sentenced to conditional discharge... 2007: Coello arrested for attacking Adovasio, who was hospitalized. Case sealed and disposition unknown... 2010: Police called to Adovasio's home for a fight at the dinner table. No arrests. Feb. 25, 2011: Adovasio filed for an order of protection against Coello and filed for divorce. He contests the divorce. March 11, 2011: Adovasio last seen alive... March 12, 2011: Coello spotted on security video leaving Adovasio's home at 1:30 a.m. carrying a large object over his shoulder, wrapped in a sheet or bag, and loading into his Nissan Maxima... Later reports her missing... March 16: Adovasio's body found... [Full article here]

BODY OF MISSING BRONX MOM TINA ADOVASIO FOUND IN WOODS; HUSBAND EXPECTED TO TURN HIMSELF IN
New York Daily News
By Bob Kappstatter, Alison Gendar and Corky Siemaszko
Wednesday, March 16th 2011, 10:41 PM
Updated: Thursday, March 17th 2011
[Excerpts] The body of a missing Bronx mother of four - the estranged wife of an abusive ex-cop - was found in a patch of woods in Westchester County on Wednesday night by teens riding four-wheelers... The medical examiner hadn't yet determined the exact cause of death, but sources said investigators believe the 40-year-old was choked to death... Edwin Coello, 40, whose marriage to Adovasio was marked by bouts of domestic violence, was expected to turn himself in to authorities Thursday morning... During questioning after her disappearance, Coello seemed to be the "helpful husband" until about 12 hours in when detectives asked to look at his car. He refused and clammed up, sources said. He did tell detectives Adovasio scratched him before storming out of their home Friday night, sources said. "It was as if he knew what was going to happen so he told us that they had fought earlier and she had scratched him, in case we found his skin under her fingernails," one source close to the probe said. The case is now being investigated by Westchester County, Yorktown Heights and NYPD cops... Joe Adovasio, who helped investigators identify the body of his ex-wife, feared the worst and has tried to console their two sons and daughter since she disappeared. "At least she was found," he said. "There's at least some closure there.... [Coello] should rot in hell," he said. "[Tina Adovasio] was a beautiful woman and a good mother. Our hearts go out to her side of the family." Coello, a former housing cop, was pushed out of the force in 2000 amid reports he abused his first wife. She was holed up with her son Wednesday in her Bronx home, too terrified to talk... [Full article here]

BODY FOUND IN WOODS MAY BE MISSING NURSE TINA ADOVASIO
The Journal News, LoHud.com
Leah Rae
Mar. 16, 2011
[Excerpts] The investigation into the disappearance of Tina Adovasio took an apparent dramatic turn for the worse late Wednesday night. A body was found in the woods... A reporter Wednesday could see state and Yorktown vehicles near Baldwin Road and the Taconic State Parkway and floodlights from a number of emergency vehicles, including the Fire Department... Earlier Wednesday, colleagues at Sound Shore Medical Center in New Rochelle were among those fearing for the well-being of Adovasio, a popular maternity nurse... Adovasio has been employed for seven years at Sound Shore Medical Center, where she worked as a registered nurse. "We're hoping for the best," hospital spokeswoman Trish Feathers said... "She has been a highly valued employee for more than seven years. Her family and friends are in our thoughts." [Full article here]

MISSING MOM DEAD: WIFE OF ABUSIVE EX-COP FOUND OFF HIGHWAY
New York Post
By Larry Celona, Kirstan Conley And Bob Fredericks
March 17, 2011
[Excerpts] The bruised body of a Bronx mom of four who was the estranged wife of an abusive ex-NYPD cop was found yesterday in a wooded area off a Westchester highway... [Tina's former husband Joseph Adovasio:] "The police called me earlier and asked if she had any identifying marks... I told them she had a tattoo on her ankle, a starburst. It's not colored in, it's blue. They've must've identified her using that." He said the thought of telling their three children was overwhelming. "But we'll handle this as a family. We're a very tight-knit family." he said. The grim discovery came as it was learned that Adovasio told her divorce lawyer her husband, Eddy Coello, would be to blame if she were ever harmed. "If anything happens to me, look at him," Tina Adovasio said last month as she took out an order of protection against Coello... Coello, who has a 5-year-old daughter with Adovasio, is a "person of interest" in the pretty maternity nurse's death, the sources said. He was the last to see her alive and called 911 to report her missing, but has since hired a lawyer and stopped cooperating... "One of the cops told me they're gonna squeeze him till he pops," her ex said. Cops impounded Coello's car yesterday... [Full article here]

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