Former TV news anchor Suzanne Pagella was found hanged by her mother in her Detroit home last weekend in an apparent suicide.  Pagella had been on a downward spiral for several months.

As a married Suzanne Wangler, she appeared to have it all: a career as a popular television news anchor, a husband who was a former college quarterback, four children.

But at some point, Wangler’s life went into free fall, with a divorce, debt and several arrests, including one last week on an embezzlement charge. It ended with a crash last weekend when Wangler’s mother found her hanging from a beam in the basement of her Royal Oak home, just north of Detroit.

She was known as Suzzane Page as a news anchor around the Detroit area.