An ex-cop’s former girlfriend told jurors today that he called her in the middle of the night and confessed that he “snapped” and killed his wife.
“There is no easy way to say what I’m about to tell you,” Eddy Coello told Monica Rodriguez in a 2 a.m. phone call, according to Rodriguez.
“You did it?” she said to him.
“Yes I did,” Coello replied.
Rodriguez said Coello told her he “just snapped.”
She said the call came after Tina Adovasio’s body had been found by two teenagers riding ATVs in the woods near the Taconic State Parkway in Westchester.
He also said he had a good lawyer and would probably only get five to 20 years in prison for the crime, and would come out of jail “a better person.”
Rodriguez and Coello share a 19-year-old daughter.
Earlier, a friend of Adovasio testified about bruises she saw on the victim’s body after a workout session.
Adovasio, a nurse, had already told the friend about her violent husband, but Margo Paladines said she saw the abuse for herself during a post-exercise sauna session.
“It was very visible,” Paladines told jurors in a Bronx courtroom. “She said he was very aggressive. He was mentally and physically abusive.”
Prosecutors say Coello, 41, a former NYPD officer, flew into a violent rage after Adovasio told him in text messages that she wanted a divorce because she suspected him of cheating.
Paladines also said Adovasio told her she was reluctant to reach out for help.
“She said she was afraid to call police because he threatened to kill her if she did,” Paladines said.