'We had a great life, look after our kids': Chiropractor and wife take their own lives due to spiralling debt problems

Chiropractor Glenn Scarpelli (pictured) and his wife Patricia have been identified. Photo / COCSA.org

The couple who committed suicide because of their spiralling debt problems have been identified.

Glenn Scarpelli and his wife Patricia, 53 and 50, were found dead in New York city on Friday morning.

The couple, who live close to Wall St leave behind two children, Isabella, 20, and Joseph, 19.

The husband and wife travelled uptown, to Glenn's recently closed chiropractic practice, just a block from the Empire State Building, to commit suicide.

Police arrived on the scene where they discovered suicide notes left in a ziplock bag, detailing their "financial spiral".

A photo of Glenn's note, obtained by the New York Post, shows part of the letter, with the full text obscured. However, parts of the note are visible, showing that he talks about how he and his wife "had everything in life", but that they "can not live with" their "financial reality".

In the wife's suicide note, she asked that their kids be taken care of.

DailyMail.com has 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.

The chiropractor owed $213,000 to the federal government and just under $42,000 to the state in unpaid taxes.

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