Made for Netflix as a three-part mini-series, airing on instant streaming November 2nd in the US.Filming location(s) unknown.
The story: In 1987, Sally was a single mother of two. She was also a Sergeant in the Marine Corps.
She took up bodybuilding as means of protection and soon, by the advice and permission of the Marine Corps, begin competing.
On Valentines Day of that same year, Sally won 4th place in her very first bodybuilding competition.
A friend of hers had shown her photograph to another Marine Corp/bodybuilder named Ray Mc Neil, who said he wanted to meet Sally.
Shortly after the meeting, the two hit it off. After dating for just two months, the couple got married.
They quickly began bodybuilding together and then competing together as well.
For the couple and everyone around them, it seemed they were only on the up and up.
Ray was ready to begin professional bodybuilding by 1991, so he quit the Marine Corps with all his ambitions now on bodybuilding.
Sally was becoming a budding bodybuilder and alongside Ray, it didn't seem she would do anything other than go further.
While Ray began working toward his dream with Sally's full support, times became tough on the small family, trying to keep a steady income and food on the table.
All the while, Ray had big potential and he was completely dedicated to his dreams.
But Ray was insecure, and that didn't change no matter the better and bigger he got.
Steroids were definitely involved in Ray's life, and then, after seeing what they did for Ray, Sally's as well.
All the while though, Ray's needs were of the top most importance.
The happy couple began disagreeing and having arguments that became violent behind closed doors because Ray felt he was the most important thing in both of their lives.
Ray would never be able to see Sally as his equal when it came to bodybuilding, no matter what she did.
Sally was approached to do wrestling videos for 50 dollars an hour and went on to do more wrestling for more money.
Ray wasn't too bothered by Sally's wrestling because they were always in need of cash.
After a while, Sally began making her own wrestling videos.
In 93, Sally was now out of the Marine Corps and placed 5th in her next bodybuilding competition, but she was making way more money wrestling.
That same year, Ray qualified for Mr. Olympia and that's exactly what he wanted.
But he only placed 15th and he was pissed.
No one knew how pissed he really was. No one except Sally.
Ray went from a kind, gentle man to an overly, aggressively angry person, which was not who most people who knew him understood.
Everyone who knew and liked Ray never knew he was taking his aggression out on his wife.
Sally always gave him the benefit of the doubt when Ray continuously apologized after battering her.
He was also beating her children.
In 1995, Ray and Sally had been married for 8 years but things never got better they only got worse.
When Ray was training is when he would be the most violent with Sally.
She finally decided to make plans to leave before, she believed, Ray killed her.
Valentine's Day of that same year, it was a fun day for Sally and her children.
Later in the day, Sally was waiting around for Ray, but he didn't show up so she was getting ready to go look for him when he came home.
The situation caused a bad argument that escalated.
It escalated so much that Sally believed she was going to die, so she did the only thing she could think of.
Sally shot Ray.
Stars Sally McNeil, Peggy Hook, John McNeil, Shantina McNeil, Shannon Brown, Dan Goldstein, DJ Jeffers, Debrosha McCants , William Rafael, Lenda Murray, Wayne DeMillia, Melanie Jeffers, Hugh Malay, Lee Penman, Bill Wick, Diane Dimond, Rachel Louise Snyder, Nancy Kaser Boyd
Directed by Nanette Burstein
Rated TVMA
DOCUMENTARY/HISTORY/TV
"I was so broken, I didn't know I was broken."
