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The abusive ex-cop whose wife was found dead near a Westchester highway defiantly refused to give police a DNA sample yesterday — as investigators found bodily fluids in his car and hauled away bags of evidence from the couple’s Bronx home.
Eddy Coello, 38 — the only “person of in terest” in the grue some strangulation of 40-year-old mom of four Tina Adovasio — spent exactly 24 min utes at the 45th Pre cinct station house with his lawyer at his side.
“He was asked if he would give a DNA sample,” said Police Commissioner Ray Kelly. “We asked him to look at certain pictures. He refused. And then he left.”
Surveillance video from the cou ple’s Edison Avenue building in Throggs Neck shows Coello carrying a sheet and a large duffel bag Friday night, shortly after Adovasio vanished.
The medical examiner last night officially declared her a homicide victim.
At the building yesterday, cops removed evidence filling two large paper bags and two black garbage bags. A police source said investigators found no blood in the couple’s apartment but did recover bodily fluids, which could yield DNA, from the back seat of Coello’s car.
“They are plodding toward an inevitable conclusion,” said Michael Lease, who was representing Adovasio in the divorce she filed for only last month.
The police source said investigators are trying to check Coello’s whereabouts Friday night to see whether there’s a link to the secluded area where Adovasio’s body was found Wednesday, just off the Taconic Parkway in Yorktown Heights. Coello has a relative who lives about a mile from the area, the source said.
The disgraced former housing cop’s record of frightening, impulsive abuse goes back years, court records show.
He once went berserk while his wife cradled their crying 1-year-old daughter, Mia, smashing trophies and breaking her cellphone against a wall, according to those records.
“Wait till you see what I am going to do to your f- -king car. I am going to break all the windows,” Coello screamed in February 2006, the complaint says.
A law-enforcement source said there were two other reports filed during the couple’s stormy seven-year relationship. They were legally married 18 months ago, that source said.
Coello was forced to quit the NYPD in 2000 because of a domestic dispute with a previous ex-wife, other sources said.
“He was a pretty violent guy,” the law-enforcement source said, yet Adovasio “didn’t know he was removed from the police force for . . . domestic violence.”
Adovasio’s devastated family gathered at her parents’ home in Holmes in Dutchess County.
“He had beat her once before,” said sister-in-law Stephanie Susco. “She was in the hospital a few years ago, but these last couple of years, she hadn’t said anything about him abusing her.”
Lease said Adovasio’s kids were staying with friends and relatives. Her youngest daughter was with Adovasio’s mother.
Her eldest son, Joe, 16 — his face pale and his eyes red-rimmed with grief — was spotted at his mom’s house briefly yesterday and left with a backpack.
Additional reporting by Jennifer Bain, Len Maniace and Cathy Burke