The True Story Behind ‘Killer Sally,’ Netflix’s Newest True Crime Documentary

Perhaps nobody alive, with the exception of Sally McNeil, knows reality with regards to what happened on Valentine’s Day, 1995: That evening, McNeil, a muscle head and former Marine, utilized a shotgun to kill her husband Ray McNeil, an individual jock and ex-Marine.

Another Netflix documentary dives beneath the surface of the salacious homicide that held the bodybuilding scene and beyond, and sent Sally — whose stage name before the homicide was “Executioner McNeil” — to prison until her 2020 release. Chief and Oscar nominee Nanette Burstein’s three-part documentary examines the history of aggressive behavior at home Sally persevered at Ray’s hands, and what her body meant for the way she was seen.

Burstsein told The Guardian she wanted to “[point] out how inane a portion of the [prosecution’s] argument was, that she could never have conceivably been a casualty because she was excessively. Which is absurd.” “He seemed to be the statue of David. He was beautiful,” Sally McNeil says in the documentary, summing up their attraction as “desire from the outset.”

Be that as it may, the relationship was fraught with savagery from early on. Sally said Ray smacked her directly upside the head and split her lip after they’d been married for three days.

Ray also repeatedly stifled her and once broke her nose in front of the couple’s small kids, Shantina and John. The series also archives Sally’s affiliation with what was colloquially known as “muscle prostitution,” in which she grappled with people for money — which in go assisted with paying for Ray’s addiction to anabolic steroids.

After years of abuse at Ray’s hands, which Sally says was prodded by his “roid rage,” Sally shot Ray with a sawed-off shotgun and then called 911.

A gripping second in the documentary shows an exchange among Sally and her youngsters, 9 and 11, in a police interrogation room.

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“On the off chance that you thought [he] was gonna kill you, that’s self-preservation,” John, a fourth-grader, said at the time.

However examiners alleged that Sally’s wrongdoing was premeditated. Sally’s guard couldn’t demonstrate Ray’s abuse with DNA, and examiners claimed a shell found in the couple’s room meant she could have attempted to reload the weapon, which would have undermined her self-protection claim, according to Esquire. Sally’s own history of savagery, as well as the notion that because she was physically strong, she could never have been an aggressive behavior at home casualty, influenced the perception of the case and contributed to Sally’s conviction for second-degree murder.

In addition to Sally, who was paroled from prison in 2020, the documentary also features interviews with Shantina and John as well as companions and others who knew the couple.

Burstein said that the story’s central theme is one of abusive behavior at home.

“I have no interest in gratuitous genuine wrongdoing,” the chief, who also helmed the ESPN 30 for 30 film The Cost of Gold, about ice skater Tonya Harding, told The Guardian.

“That is what really attracted me to the story — it was really about aggressive behavior at home, and it’s about orientation roles,” she said.

She added, “It’s really about other ladies, because this is as yet happening today.”

In the event that you are experiencing abusive behavior at home, call the National Abusive behavior at home Hotline at 1-800-799-7233, or go to thehotline.org.

All calls are complementary and confidential. The hotline is available all day, every day in excess of 170 languages.

The story behind the wrongdoing was years in the making. Sally met Ray at a rec center in the 1980s, and the two were married only two months later.