Former police officer Edwin Coello, 38, is charged with second degree murder and is ordered held without bail, New York 1 reports.

After an apparent domestic dispute last week,  Coello’s wife, Tina Adovasio went missing.  She was later found dead in a plastic bag, near the Taconic State Parkway in Westchester.

Coello has not admitted to killing his wife.

The judge in the case agreed to place the ex-cop in protective custody on Riker’s Island.

Coello will be back in court on Monday.   NY1