A New York
couple took a rare decision on Friday morning to jump to their deaths from a
17-story office building after battling for years to pay their debts.
53-year old
Chiropractor Glenn Scarpelli and his wife Patricia, 50, jumped from a window of
the ninth-floor office around 5:45 am, and landed in the East 33rd Street, near
Madison Avenue, Police said.
According to
Police, the office was the Chiropractor's former place of work, which had
recently been permanently closed.
A note found
inside a Ziploc bag in the woman’s pocket read: “Our kids are upstairs, please
take care of them.”
The Ziploc
bag also contained a letter from the Chiropractor along with their ID cards.
The man’s
letter read: “WE HAD A WONDERFUL LIFE,” before touching on their spiraling
debt.
The note
continued: “Patricia and I had everything in life” but “we can not live with”
the “financial reality,” sources said.
A note found
inside a Ziploc bag in the woman’s pocket read: “Our kids are upstairs, please
take care of them.”
The Ziploc
bag also contained a letter from the chiropractor along with their ID cards.
The man’s
letter read: “WE HAD A WONDERFUL LIFE,” before touching on their spiraling
debt.
The note
continued: “Patricia and I had everything in life” but “we can not live with”
the “financial reality,” sources said.
It was
learned that the Scarpellis had a history of financial problems and had been
pursued for dozens of outstanding tax liens by federal and city authorities
since at least 1998.
Public
records showed that Glenn owed about $213,000 to the federal government and
nearly $42,000 to the state in unpaid taxes dating back to 2003.
The couple
left behind their two children, Isabella, 20, and Joseph, 19.
See photos
from scene below..
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