Two lovers found locked in a final embrace in a Staten Island hotel room may have had a suicide pact, law-enforcement sources said.
While grieving family and friends were mystified by the deaths of Scott Jacobi, 37, and Theresa Mateo, 35, sources said the two exchanged text messages that indicated they were depressed — but investigators don’t know what caused the malaise.
Several bottles of pills were found inside the room at the Hilton Garden Inn, where Jacobi and Mateo checked in on Wednesday evening but never checked out, sources said.
The fully clothed bodies were discovered on the bed by a hotel staffer, who checked the room Friday afternoon. There were no signs of violence and no suicide note was found.
The city Medical Examiner said a cause of death is pending, but the NYPD believes it was an intentional overdose, sources said.
Mateo, of The Bronx, was the controller at a Manhattan medical facility called the Rogosin Institute, which researches kidney disease. There was no indication she was despondent, a childhood friend told The Post.
“She was always a happy person, always bubbly, never [did] anything negative come out of her mouth,” Angela Saltarelli said.
Mateo and Jacobi, of Staten Island, had been dating on and off, sources said. Their families declined to comment.
With Erin Calabrese