Inside toxic marriage of Killer Sally who shot bodybuilder husband dead in cold blood – violent rows to ‘muscle worship’
BODYBUILDER Sally McNeill made headlines when she shot her muscleman husband Ray dead in cold blood with a sawn-off shotgun on Valentine's Day in 1995.
But behind closed doors Sally - dubbed a “pumped up princess” and “Brawny Bride” during her murder trial - claims the Mr Universe wannabe beat her and to the point where she feared for her life.
"It’s not like I woke up and decided to kill my husband. I killed the man I loved the most in the world," says the 62-year-old.
When US Marine in 1987, she'd escaped a violent marriage to the dad of her two children and had taken up bodybuilding “to get bigger and stronger to protect herself".
Ray, also a Marine, was a keen bodybuilder and competed in forces competitions.
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“It was lust at first sight,” Sally says. “He was this big hunk of a man. He looked like the statue of David. He was beautiful. He was polite and kind. I thought I’d found a man who could be a stepdad for my children.”
After a whirlwind romance of just two months, the pair wed and moved into a two bedroom apartment in Oceanside, California.
“When I love somebody, I give them my all,” she says. “You get everything of me.”
Initially Shantina, then four, and John, two, loved their "charismatic"; stepdad.
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“I didn’t deserve the sentence I got,” she says. “But I don’t care anymore, I’m free.”
Killer Sally is on Netflix now.