Sally McNeil never denied shooting her husband Ray. “I just shot my husband because he just beat me up,” she told the 911 operator on the night of Valentine’s Day 1995. Then, at the police station, she told the two officers interrogating her: “I wanted to get out of the house, and he wouldn’t let me out of the house. So then I ran back to the bedroom, and I got my shotgun.” When the police informed her during their interrogation that Ray died from his injuries, Sally collapsed on the table in front of her.
“I didn’t want it to be that way,” she said between sobs. “I just wanted him to stop hitting me.”
