Sharon Sewell

Sharon Sewell met Steve Spangler when they both worked at a Dodge truck assembly plant near Detroit in 1983.
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Sharon had graduated from college, the first one in her family to do so, with a degree in chemical engineering and was hired as a paint-quality engineer on the night shift. The plants were pretty rough places in those days; hers was known as Dodge City. "I was the supervisor," she recalls.
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Their hope of having children was crushed when Sharon had to have a hysterectomy in 1999. She says she had put off starting a family: She was working longer hours as her managerial responsibilities increased, and there was always the promise of another promotion. In 1995 she had become a supervisor at Jeep Engineering, with a staff of up to a dozen. And in 2000 she worked as a Jeep Renegade program supervisor.
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Sharon was first perplexed, then, as the months passed, increasingly distressed by her husband's violence. "A wonderful person was becoming a stranger," she adds. She confided in no one about the fights that turned ugly and twice left her with serious injuries.
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At Daimler, Sharon was relieved to be consumed by the demands of the Jeep Renegade launch. But it was only a few months later that her descent began. When a favorite nephew committed suicide, she became distraught.
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Sharon requested a medical leave from Daimler so she could enter a day-treatment program for depression. A few days later, on Nov. 19, she met with a lawyer to begin divorce proceedings and called Steve, who had moved out, to inform him.

The next morning, as she was blow-drying her hair, her two dogs began barking and she heard someone climbing the stairs.