Killer Sally is on Netflix now and the series features interviews from friends, family and Sally McNeil herself. The contributors document the bodybuilding couple’s turbulent marriage and its shocking end. Express.co.uk has all you need to know about what happened to Sally McNeil.
Where is Sally McNeil now?
The Netflix limited series recalls the events of Sally and Ray’s unstable marriage and the Valentine’s Day murder that followed.
Sally was married to national bodybuilding champion Ray McNeil and they had two children together.
However, Sally claimed that after a while, her husband started abusing her and the domestic abuse continued for years until Valentine’s Day 1995.
She claimed as Ray was choking her, Sally grabbed a gun and shot her husband, claiming it was self-defense.
Although when the case went to court, the prosecution argued it was premeditated murder.
It was said in court that she killed her husband as she was jealous and became an aggressive wife.
In March 1996 she was convicted of second-degree murder and spent 25 years in jail.
She was released on parole in 2020 and has now shared her side of the story in the new Netflix documentary.
McNeil had served her sentence at the Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla, California.
According to sportskeeda.com, she currently resides in Northern California.
Sally, who is now 62, also recently married her new boyfriend according to the publication.
She first met Ray while he was serving alongside her in the Marine Corps.
They bonded over their love of fitness and got married in 1987, with Sally already divorced at the time.
In the trailer, Sally described her husband as “beautiful”, saying he looked like “the Statue of David”.
The trailer also includes the audio from a 911 call Sally made after her husband died.
She is heard saying: “I just shot my husband because he just beat me up.”
She is seen saying to her children: “I’m sorry if I disappointed you” as she was desperate to protect them.
Her friends and family said she never talked about what was going on with Ray behind closed doors.
In a previous interview, Sally said she had learned to “suppress things and block them out”.
In the end, she said: “I couldn’t take it anymore, I didn’t want to die. I had to defend myself.”
