Ex-NYPD cop Eddy Coello charged in wife Tina Adovasio's murder

(CBS/WCBS/AP) NEW YORK - Former NYPD officer Eddy Coello was arrested on a second-degree murder charge on the same day his murdered wife, Tina Adovasio, was buried.

Coello was booked Tuesday night at the 45th Precinct and is expected to be arraigned on Wednesday at Bronx Criminal Court, reported CBS station WCBS.

Earlier on Tuesday, family and friends packed into St. John the Evangelist Church in Mahopac to bid a final farewell to Tina Adovasio, the Bronx nurse and mother of four whose body was found last week north of New York City, reports the station.

Advasio, 40, disappeared from her home in the Throgs Neck neighborhood of the Bronx on March 11. Her body was discovered the following Wednesday by a person riding an ATV in a wooded area in Yorktown Heights.

The NYPD said Advasio was suffocated. She also suffered blunt force trauma to the head and chest.

Coello reported his wife's disappearance to the police. He turned himself in at the precinct last Thursday, officials said, but he was not charged at the time and was released.

Police suspect Coello strangled his wife in their apartment and then carried her body out in a large duffel bag before dumping her body.

Coello left the NYPD in 2000 during a domestic violence investigation.

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