Killer Sally
Killer Sally is the story of 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.
Killer Sally is the story of 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. It’s directed by award winning filmmaker, Nanette Burstein (On The Ropes, Hillary) and is produced by Traci Carlson, Robert Yapkowitz and Richard Peete of Neighborhood Watch (Karen Dalton: In My Own Time, Blue Ruin).”
Release date
November 2, 2022
Studio
Cast
Sally McNeil, John McNeil, Shantina McNeil, Peggy Hook, DJ Jeffers, Dan Goldstein, Shannon Brown, William Rafael, Debrosha McCants, Lenda Murray
Diane Dimond, Bill Wick, Hugh Malay, Wayne DeMillia, Rachel Louise Snyder
Lee Penman, Melanie Jeffers, Nancy Kaser-Boyd
Director
Nanette Burstein
Producers
Traci Carlson, Elliott Coley, Emily Moffet, Timothy Moran, Richard Peete, Jayne Roberts, Robert Yapkowitz, Kylie Hoffman, William Wondra
