Sally`s trail attracts a media frenzy when it begins on Valentine`s Day, 1996. Later, following Sally`s testimony, the jury renders a verdict. 

After Ray`s death, lurid details of the McNeils` volatile marriage emerge and Sally`s claims of self-defense meet new scrutiny. 

Sally and Ray McNeil meet and fall in love via a shared interest in bodybuilding. But their seemingly happy marriage masks a life of violence and abuse.