Eddie Coello, an ex-NYPD officer, was taken into custody Tuesday after his estranged wife’s lifeless body was found in Yorktown last week.

According to his lawyer, Coello has not been arrested and is still pledging his innocence.

Tina Adovasio, a Bronx resident, disappeared on March 11. According to police the couple had a history of domestic violence and she had wanted a separation. Officials determined the cause of death to be asphyxiation. The body also showed blunt trauma to the chest and head.

Adovasio, a mother of four, was buried Tuesday in Mahopac. The Wall Street Journal