Debra Oles, 60, said she drove Covlin, 47, to a Yonkers costume warehouse in late 2012, where he purchased a “black man’s wig and makeup” to pose as an election canvasser.

Roderick Covlin’s ex-girlfriend Debra Oles told jurors this week that the accused killer — charged in the choking death of his estranged wife Shele on Dec. 31, 2009 — had a hair-trigger ...

Debra Oles gets emotional on the witness stand in State Supeme Court on March 5, 2019, in New York. Oles, an ex-girlfriend of Roderick Covlin, testified for the prosecution.

In an exclusive interview, Rod Covlin’s ex-girlfriend Debra Oles tells NBC News’ Andrea Canning: “I never saw the monster that I eventually came to know until later.” More of the interview ...