Plot Synopsis

Directed by Nanette Burstein, KILLER SALLY is a three-part documentary about bodybuilding's most notorious crime. On Valentine's Day 1995, national bodybuilding champion, Ray McNeil, was choking his bodybuilder wife, Sally, when she grabbed a gun and fatally shot him twice. With a documented history of domestic abuse, Sally claimed it was self-defense, a split-second decision to save her life. The prosecution argued it was premeditated murder, the revenge of a jealous and aggressive wife. They called her a "thug," a "bully," a "monster." The media referred to her as the "brawny bride" and the "pumped-up princess." Sally says she spent her life doing whatever it took to survive, caught in a cycle of violence that began in childhood and ended with Ray's death. This complex true crime story examines domestic violence, gender roles, and the world of bodybuilding. All three episodes of KILLER SALLY dropped on Wednesday, November 2, 2022 on Netflix.