ANGER: Adrienne Susco (right), mom of slain Tina Adovasio, and mom (left) of Tina’s accused hubby at court yesterday. (
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Grief turned to rage outside a Bronx courtroom yesterday as the mother of a strangled nurse crossed paths with the woman whose son stands trial for her murder.
“Why are you smiling at me? Why are you waving at me?” raged Adrienne Susco after the mom of accused killer Eddy Coello lifted her arm to acknowledge Susco as they passed in a Bronx Supreme Court hallway.
Susco — whose daughter Tina Adovasio was killed allegedly by Coello, her abusive husband — then fumed: “She could go see her son — I have to go to a grave to see my daughter!”
Susco’s outburst came after she collapsed trying to leave the courtroom as prosecutors showed jurors five gruesome photos of her daughter’s corpse — which was discovered on March 16, 2011, in woods off the Taconic State Parkway in Westchester County.
Susco let out a cry at the sight of the fourth photo — which showed mom-of-four Adovasio’s swollen face.
“The pictures were horrible, horrible,” a sobbing Susco later said.
“We want justice. He’s worse than an animal,” she said of Coello, 40, whose track record of violence against women includes an attack on an ex-girlfriend that ended his police career in 2000.
Coello, prosecutors charge, strangled Adovasio, 40, on March 11, 2011, and carried her corpse out in a duffel bag to his car to dump her body.
A surveillance video shows Coello taking the body-sized bag to the car.
Earlier, Coello lawyer Renee Hill had Adovasio’s son Joseph testify that when his mom and the former housing cop first got married, the couple got along and that Joseph ended up bonding with Coello.
But Hill’s questioning led Judge Ralph Fabrizio to allow prosecutors to ask Joseph Adovasio about a day in 2007 when he saw his mom battered and bruised.
“She had a black eye, and a gash on her eye,” Joseph said, shifting uncomfortably on the witness stand.
“She told me Eddy held her down and punched her in the face.”
As Tina’s abuse allegedly by Coello was recounted, Tina’s mom stared at him.
“I hate him,” Susco seethed.