Ex-cop's wife feared slain

The estranged wife of a former NYPD cop is feared dead after mysteriously vanishing from their troubled Bronx home -- and cops are eyeing her abusive hubby as a "person of interest" in the case, police sources said yesterday.

Tina Adovasio -- a beautiful maternity nurse and 40-year-old mom of four -- was last seen at the warring couple's well-kept Throggs Neck home around 9 p.m. Friday, authorities said.

Her husband, ex-housing cop Edwin "Eddy" Coello, 38, told cops she stormed out after a blowout fight. He was the last person to see her alive and called 911 to report her missing, the sources said.

"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 Frank Scarvelli.

"He beat her up a couple of times" in the past, Scarvelli said. "The last time, she was black and blue. She used to run to my apartment."

Homicide detectives with dogs were brought to the family home yesterday, along with a crime scene unit.

Cops were poring over recent building surveillance video that shows Coello exiting with several large trash bags.

Coello -- who was forced to retire from the department in 2000 over a domestic incident with a previous wife -- has been busted twice for domestic incidents involving Adovasio.

One was for assault 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.

"It was really bad over the last week or so, up till Friday," noted neighbor Ruben Cordero, who lives next door.

Adovasio has three other children -- Joseph, 16, Alexis, 15, and Michael, 11 -- with ex-husband Joe Adovasio, whom she divorced in 2000 after six years of marriage.

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."

He said he last saw his ex-wife about two weeks ago.

Coello was unable to be reached for comment.

His lawyer, Renee Hill, told The Post: "[Adovasio]'s missing. [Coello] filed the missing-persons report, and he has spoken with the police extensively.

"He has been cooperative . . . and we're hoping for her safe return."