17 Yr Old Mackenzie Shirilla Kills BF & Friend In Car Crash - ALL Her Private Snapchat Messages
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The case of Mackenzie Shirilla, who survived a fatal car crash killing her boyfriend Dominic Russo and friend Davion Flanagan, has become a subject of intense public scrutiny. Mackenzie claims to suffer from post-traumatic amnesia and cannot recall any events from the crash, despite being the only survivor. Investigators have accessed extensive data—including over 4,000 text messages, thousands of photos, and social media records—highlighting her documented patterns of reckless behavior, such as driving while intoxicated, posting videos of herself smoking weed, and exhibiting road rage. Her social media presence reveals a performative, self-centered identity focused on fashion, wealth, and influencer culture, with no apparent concern for safety or accountability. Despite this, her parents remained largely passive, and she swiftly began engaging with modeling brands days after the crash. A key point of controversy involves a hospital incident where she reportedly spoke rapidly in an unidentifiable language, later decoded as carny talk, raising questions about her mental state. The case has sparked widespread debate over her character, motives, and potential involvement in the crash. While the official investigation frames the incident as a tragic accident with no proven evidence of premeditation, public speculation and conspiracy theories persist. The media response, particularly through a Netflix documentary, has amplified emotional and social tensions, especially among the families of the victims. The investigation is structured into five parts, exploring her relationship with Dom, social media behavior, text message content, possible intent, and alleged connections to prison or jail calls. Ultimately, the case underscores the complexity of assigning blame when one person holds the only memory of a deadly event, while also highlighting broader issues of accountability, trauma, and public perception.
it's like a storm is coming i mean not figuratively but the officer has to turn away
from the road he can hear the wind going crazy it sounds like a tornado but he can't directly look
at what's causing all this wind at least it's not advised all the debris that's getting kicked up
into the air the dust it's going to get into his eyes and then there's going to be a bigger problem
and he's not going to be as useful right now and he needs to be very useful because he needs to
save somebody's life in the event of a very very bad car crash it always feels like a storm is
coming and that's not figuratively it's usually the life flight it's a helicopter this is essentially
a flying emergency room and it is looking for a place to land typically on the road i mean it does
need clearance a lot of the police have to taper off a section and the pilot is ultimately the one
that decides if it's safe to land but these helicopters they're trying to land as quickly as
possible as closely as possible to the crash site so that they can get whoever needs help
with no time wasted to the closest medical facility the life flight lands and they hurry
to get the patient on board and fly them to metro health medical center intensive care unit
specifically room 571 that is where she wakes up from surgery the officers the police officers
the detectives they're knocking on the hospital door to ask her what happened in that car crash
because you were driving so what happened what did you do how did those two boys in the car die
the doctor's notes read patient awake alert appropriate clearly articulated verbal response
patient without recall of circumstances or timing of collision 17 year old mackenzie is sitting in
the hospital room and she informs the officers she doesn't recall a single thing after getting
into that car even when she tries to remember there is nothing it's just blank everything faded
to black there's nothing she doesn't remember how she the driver ended up crashing the car
into the brick building killing her boyfriend dom and killing their friend davion she says she can't
remember i mean she wishes she could she cries out in fact that she wishes that she could have
been the one that died instead of them why them why not her it's it's just a very tricky time
for everyone in strongsville ohio but it is an unbearable time for 19 year old davion's family
and 20 year old dominic's family because they want to know what the hell happened they want to know
how their family member was killed but the only person that knows that answer is in the hospital
just got out of multiple surgeries and she claims she doesn't remember a thing i think they have
every single right to demand answers but because they're inherently good people they don't they
wait they wait because they want 17 year old mackenzie to heal from her surgery because even
though their sons were killed they don't want another person to die they don't know what
happened in the car they don't immediately go and interrogate mackenzie after she's gotten out of
surgery which no one would blame them for doing i'm sure they really wanted to there's so much
that doesn't make sense that they have to sit with for a prolonged period of time probably even now
like why was she driving so fast straight into a brick building and never hitting the brakes
i don't think anyone would have faulted them if they were posted up in that hospital room
but they weren't instead they were waiting and while they were waiting they find out that 17
year old mackenzie has not been waiting she does not wait she does not wait to post snapchat stories
of herself laying in the hospital bed she'll like post the little flowers that she received from the
hospital but more shocking she hasn't even waited to respond to a modeling agency that reached out
to her on instagram a day or two after the fatal crash the brand comments on mackenzie's instagram
page asking to use a picture of her to repost to their socials mackenzie's mom responds thank you
for this amazing opportunity
she would love if you would use that she's actually been trying to contact you guys for
pr email it was a tragic accident this is just as painful for her as it is for everyone else
or maybe even a little more painful did the brand reach out because they figured found out about the
crash or it doesn't seem like it it seems like she tagged them and some intern was just like oh hey
can i use this photo and then mackenzie herself responds thank you for the comment i would love
to work with you guys i've been emailing you guys a lot such a great opportunity thank you
how does someone respond like that after killing their boyfriend and friend in the car this is the
case of mackenzie shavilla and the lives that were cut short of dominic russo and davian flanagan
this case has gained a lot of attention since the release of the netflix documentary the crash we
did foia this case and the file that we got back was pretty massive i mean we received approximately
over 4 000 separate videos 4 896 photos 31 000 pages of text messages just between mackenzie and
her boyfriend dom it was approximately 92 892 text messages back and forth oh close to 800 text
messages between mackenzie and her own father steve shirilla which is i mean there's a lot of
conspiracies coming out of those messages close to 2 000 text messages between mackenzie and her
close friends as well as 2 000 pages of instagram dm messages between mackenzie and various other
people as well as massive folders for all of mackenzie's snapchat data including personal
photos videos audio messages sent to friends tiktok data instagram data as well as 97 jail calls 551
pages of documents from police reports and 39 body cam and dash cam videos we have gone through
all of it because it is a massive amount of just data i know that a lot of people were trying to
run the text message file through ai to pick out important parts we literally sat there and read
through every single page every single text message and we are going to break it down and we're going to
break it down for you this is going to be a five part series in this first part we're going to be
going over the crash itself as well as going over who was in the car their relationships to one
another and generally what people believe happened that night in part two we're going to break down
the netflix documentary the social media response to the documentary because it's been a lot there's
been a lot of conspiracy theories that have been circulating online about what was happening at the
party that the three mackenzie dom and davion had attended right before the crash as well as we
actually asked two of the most important people to talk about what was happening at the party and we
controversial individuals from the documentary all of the questions that we saw social media had
for them and they responded it was like a two hour long conversation in part three we're going to be
breaking down mackenzie's relationship with her parents as well as the semi-confirmed speculations
that mackenzie was sending messages to people in regards to potential sex work not that there was
sex work that was committed or
done not that there was any sex work evidence found but messages communicating back and forth
about potential sex work in part four we're going to be breaking down the entire 31 000 page document
of text messages between mackenzie and dom and covering the popular theory that mackenzie knew
that dom was breaking up with her soon so she planned the crash and in part five we're going
to cover the jail calls and the alleged prison girlfriends because after this netflix documentary
so many people have been coming out saying i was in jail or i was in prison because i was in jail
with mackenzie as well as the status of the appeal so that is going to be the five parts and with that
being said we would like to thank today's sponsors who have made it possible for rotten mango to
support change the game for dom foundation and davion flanagan's memorial scholarship fund
both gofundmes are run by the families of the victims and we will include all of those in the
description as well as all the information regarding dom and davion's law which aims to
update ohio's son of sam laws in order to prevent violent offenders from profiting off their crimes
all of those are going to be included in our show notes this episode's partnerships have also made
it possible to support rotten mango's team of dedicated researchers we'd also like to thank
you guys for your continued support as always full show notes are available at rottenmingopodcast.com
today's case involves mentions of illicit drug usage reckless driving driving while intoxicated
self-exit and possible domestic violence we did pull the foia for this case and literally went
through tens of thousands of pages of text messages detective incident reports autopsy reports so
a lot of quotes and statements may be condensed for brevity's sake secondly many of dom and davion's
family members have spoken up and have shared their stories about how this has impacted them
i would heavily recommend you watching through all of those because i think they are like the
first-hand encounters to describe what it was like being around people like dom and davion i think
and they're very eloquent with their words i'm going to link all of their
social media below because they have been active since the documentary to voice out
the impact that this case and the documentary has had on them in order to explain the entirety of
the case there will be times where we will be going through opinions of netizens theories of
netizens even conspiracy theories but keep in mind that we do state that these are opinions
comments and speculations made by netizens they do not represent our own opinions so with that
let's get started depending on who you ask you're going to get a completely different view of who
mackenzie shirilla is which i'm sure it applies to every single one of us there are going to be
people in your life that love you and they're going to love you and they're going to love you
and then there are going to be the ones that hate you but you can still pinpoint who they're talking
about most of the time the people that hate you will say oh she has no backbone and they're so
desperate to be liked the people who like you are going to say oh they're so sweet and accommodating
and really care about other people's feelings all the time two different perspectives typically of
the same personality traits just interpreted differently but the part that boggles my mind
about mackenzie shirilla is it feels like everyone's talking about inherently different individuals
she sounds like a different person depending on who you talk to some friends will say that she's one of
those people who took care of herself and other people one friend says that she was being bullied
would be the one that would stand up for her and tell people that's not okay don't bully her
one friend reminisces about her friendship with Mackenzie on snapchat and she writes
I remember during one of my drunken breakdowns I texted Kenzie to come to my room so I didn't
interrupt the party and she sat next to me and said oh no babe we drunk crying what's wrong
and just listen to me without any judgment that is the kind of girl Mackenzie Shrilla is
but others are confused because they're like do we know the same person they say you know
she has a bitch list like she has a burn book from mean girls the style of bitch list that
they had in the Regina George like they write down the people's names that they want to get
revenge on in Mackenzie's notes app on her phone she had a list of 48 names of I guess bitches
that she hates and wants revenge on some of those individuals would have descriptors next to their
names such as transgender or the fatty what yeah wait this is pulled from the police yeah what
which hardly feels like someone without much judgment but that's why it's interesting that
everybody has such polar opposite opinions on Mackenzie as an individual but I think one
objective fact is she loves to post photos and videos of herself which isn't inherently
a nefarious thing I too technically post a ton of videos of myself but one person says
nobody loved Mackenzie like Mackenzie loved Mackenzie and Mackenzie she
wanted to be an influencer her Instagram had 2700 followers at one point and she writes in her
Instagram bio fashion model your inspiration modeling Ohio I don't really know how to describe
Mackenzie's style I mean she's definitely not in the relatable influencer niche I would say
she's out here posting how she only likes designer things and money she'll do the the money fans
like the the money brick iPhones where she'll have an obscenely large stack of cash a brick
like the size of a fucking table lamp
and she's trying to I don't know hear the melody of tax evasion from the other side like she's
using it like a little phone and taking photos of herself she's a very specific y2k baddie type
aesthetic that she likes to stick to she'll take car videos of herself in the car with the words
all over the screen the police working fast food winter parma ohio like a city in ohio
fake friends anything that's not designer cancers gmo foods
and she's trying to I don't know hear the melody of tax evasion from the other side like she's using it like a little phone and taking photos of herself she's a very specific y2k baddie type aesthetic that she likes to stick to she'll take car videos of herself in the car with the words all over the screen the police working fast food winter parma ohio like a city in ohio fake friends anything that's not designer cancers gmo foods
new juicy guitar the show friends and ohio I don't in one frame yeah so it's like words just scattered
all throughout the screen right and she's like posing for the camera what do all of these things
have in common she uses the tiktok sound from kim kardashian while wearing obscenely large sunglasses
and the sound is it's just never been my thing not into it so not approved side note I think she's
talking about the astrological sign cancers not terminal illness cancers so there is that she also
likes to get her nails done to have the giant dior logo it's like she's got 10 dior lip glosses
on her hands just floating around she posts on instagram stories a picture of her in like a
a bathing suit in the snow and the caption reads I dress and post for me and only me if you don't
like that please go die she goes through the trends of having a full set of lash extensions
that look like she stole a horse's tail in the middle of the night and attached it to her retinas
I think everybody's had that phase I do believe the lash extensions however were giving her
infections because there are instagram dms where she talks extensively about getting prescribed
steroids for her eyes and then she goes and gets them done again just to have her eyes look like
she put in red 40 eye drops I mean generally speaking I would say that she just makes very
cringy tiktoks I guess it's understandable considering she's what 16 17 years old when
she's posting a lot of these things I could have made a freaking career embarrassing myself at that
point but I did it for free so it's fine I mean none of this is nefarious I don't think any of
these things have any sort of evidentiary value as to what kind of person Kenzie is it's just really
cringy however I think the parts that start to get a bit more alarming and worth considering
is her never-ending obsession with documenting herself getting high she'll post videos of
herself smoking weed out of a giant foot-long bong in her room which is a bit questionable to be
posting at 16 17.
but maybe not my circus not my monkeys I'm not an arc she does have normal posts as well where
she's just doing like fruit reviews trying hybrid fruit so it's not like she only posts smoking weed
but she'll like scatter them around but a lot a lot of smoking weed and then she'll do a fruit
review trying a hybrid fruit like a hybrid between a honeydew and a cantaloupe yeah or she'll review
garage sale finds where she finds like a cute purse or she'll post videos of herself in her
toyota she's got this like pink fuzzy steering wheel cover and she's just taking pictures while
driving while smoking a blunt documenting herself driving under the influence not even focusing on
the driving aspect because she's so busy trying to show her snapchat that she's driving under the
influence and she's 16 she's like 17 at this point I would say yeah I mean it's to the point where she
does everything but driving while driving she films rant videos while driving she's lip-syncing
for tiktok doing just about anything but focused on her life and she's like I don't know what to do with
this I don't know what to do with this I don't know what to do with this I don't know what to do with this
she's focusing on her driving she's showing off her furry pink steering wheel cover zooming in on her
face during songs showing off her nails showing off her lashes her oversized sunglasses in some
videos she's parked so she's not actively driving but she does go after other people that she
disagrees with on the road so she'll like be parked and show another car and be like look at
this r word he's literally parked on the line as if she's not just yeah she also has road rage issues
on snapchat she would post cars that pissed her off and she would post cars that pissed her off and she
would post cars that pissed her off and she would post cars that pissed her off with one it's a picture of a car on the road in front of her and she writes this bitch dumb af then another one dumb ass and it's just like you know license pic pictures
just generally speaking whenever she's driving she's kind of looking like a bozo she'll wear these sunglasses that look like two dinner plates on her face
which i guess you could say is objectively cute but it's not cute at all to do this
while driving i mean the amount of times her phone will fall while she's driving and recording
is rage inducing just focus on driving holy shit there's one video where she shows that she's doing
butterflies with her legs on her seat so her feet are nowhere near the pedal
or the brakes she's like crisscross applesauce the car is going yeah so it seems like she's
probably on cruise control on the highway what and her attention is definitely on showing
off that she's cruise controlling and crisscross applesauce rather than on the road she's not
focused on the road another video shows she's lip-syncing the words to a song that go i go fast
like nascar and she's again driving while doing this there's another video where she's lip-syncing
to songs and she closes her mouth every time the n-word is saying which is the correct thing to do
but she's also at the same time going through all of her copious pages upon thousands of pages of
text messages calling her boyfriend the n-word when she's mad at him so i don't know why she
feels the need to be performative about it she is often and very often like mad at her boyfriend dom
for seemingly no good reason at all but more on that later there's another video of her where
she's going 93 miles per hour on the highway with a car that's pretty close in front of her
and she's taking this video and i really don't understand the purpose of the video
i don't know if it's to show off i don't know if it's just to be included in a future
ya file i don't understand there was no aesthetic value to the video there's no message in the video
it was just bizarre she's just trying to show off how fast she's going yeah there's a dm exchange
between mackenzie and another friend earlier in 2022 where mackenzie messages them go run your
car off a bridge i'm dead i'll just crash my car into your car they respond i hope you die when you
do that now within a few days they are talking just like normal friends so i guess this is a
friendly version of banter but it's just if you were to take out the rest of this case and just
comb through mackenzie social media not knowing what's going on you would come to the conclusion
that she is an incredibly reckless teenager with basically zero foresight that will say do and post
whatever she feels without any any thought about consequences she's not exactly a likable
individual as well that doesn't inherently make her guilty of a crime but i am saying she's
incredibly unlikable and she's not exactly a likable individual as well but i am saying she's
unlikeable and she was found guilty of the crime but nevertheless i feel like i have been trapped
in the inner workings of mackenzie's mind for god knows how long now and it is incredibly difficult
if not impossible to even muster up an ounce of sympathy for her just based on how she speaks to
people through text messages dms what she posts and obviously ultimately her actions it's just um
i hate it here she'll complain to her friends about how she got banned from tiktok live for
seven days because
quote i was literally calling people ugly and saying fuck but they chose to ban me for saying
that whack then she'll go on instagram look up tiktok's official instagram account and then dm
them fuck you guys fuck you guys make it so bad for creators fuck you guys i hate y'all fuck you
y'all support system is shit reply to my dm
she'll post videos ranting why is tiktok targeting the fuck out of my account i cannot like
this was posted literally days ago on the 4th of july so why was it taken down it's literally not
i'm pissed
Which is a very interesting tactic considering right around this time, Mackenzie is trying to become an influencer, if you will.
She wants to be famous.
She expresses that pretty much verbatim multiple times that she wants to be famous.
I'm not entirely sure how cursing out the TikTok social media intern is going to get you there, but that's exactly what she's doing.
She also rants about ghost followers.
She's ranting to a friend through Instagram DMs.
They just ruined my engagement, stalker ghost followers.
It ruins engagement.
I'm over here trying to gain because if you have all these followers and it's getting pushed out to them, but they don't like it, it just ruins it.
To another friend, she rants.
It's literally making me so mad.
Like, I hate these weird fucking ghost following bitches.
They hate to see me succeeding.
Like, anytime a pretty girl is doing good, they don't like that.
What did she complain?
That they ghost follow her, but don't like her photos.
She complains that certain photos won't even get 200 likes these days.
And so she has to hide her likes, which sounds like a personal problem because you really don't have to hide them.
No one cares.
But at the same time, she's reaching out to big clothing brands like I am Gia saying, hey, I'm Gia.
I know I've reached out here before, but consistency is key.
I would love to work together and collaborate with you guys.
Thank you for being a weight inclusive brand.
Then in another TikTok, she's modeling a see-through cover up and the audio plays.
All I want is just one day here where I'm not visually assaulted by uglies and fatties.
So she's like, thank you, I am Gia for being weight inclusive.
And then she's also posting TikToks being like.
Yeah.
Visually assaulted by uglies and fatties.
For modeling, she likes to send pitches through Instagram DM that read.
And like, it's very interesting that I'm like reading through her pitches to all of these.
It's just unhinged.
She says, I believe I'm a great model because I'm a petite girl and we don't see enough of us represented in the industry.
I have modeling experience and I have done several photo shoots and walked runways.
I'm 5'3 and have a fiery personality and I'm willing to travel.
But then in another rant video, she posts, I just wanted to make this video and talk about.
Things that I don't like.
I don't like when people eat McDonald's.
It grosses me the fuck out.
I don't like swishers.
And what else do I?
Oh, I don't like when people talk about the world and be like, oh, we're all going to be dead in 60 years anyways.
Please go fucking kill yourself.
Yep.
I said it.
Go die, bitch.
So like her DMs and what she's posting are completely not even in the same realm of like who she's trying to present herself at.
It's she's posting these publicly.
Yes.
So she had three TikTok accounts.
They just kept getting banned.
And then she would post a ton of stuff on Snapchat.
She was under the impression, I think, that Snapchat deletes forever and ever.
And like the law enforcement, no one can get it.
But they keep everything.
Oh, yeah.
They kept everything.
I mean, I saw private voice memos she sent to her friends on Snapchat.
I saw she would take screenshots on her phone and send it to her friends on Snapchat of what she's doing on a website.
I'm going to talk about this more.
More in depth later.
But she's like filling out a fake ID website.
She's got her name in there, her address, her phone number.
She's taking fake ID photos, screenshotting it, like sending it to her friends on Snapchat.
And I'm just like seeing it all.
That's crazy.
Yeah.
All in a incriminating record is all on Snapchat.
Just like in a series of zip files.
Yeah.
Wow.
She does partake in a lot of the TikTok trends, too.
So, you know, the one that it's like, oh.
Oh, put a finger down.
You know, if you blah, blah, blah.
And there's a lot of variations for it.
But she chooses specifically to do the one that says put a finger down psycho edition.
And she's with her friend doing this.
If you get more than five fingers, you're a psycho.
You won't see me anywhere near you.
So this is not Mackenzie's voice.
This is, you know, the audio.
And Mackenzie is giggling and she's listening.
Put a finger down if you thought about choking someone next to you just because you can and they won't be expecting it.
She's like giggling.
Puts a finger down.
Put a finger down if you put ranch on your pizza.
She does not put a finger down.
Put a finger down if you're a Leo, Sagittarius, Scorpio or Cancer, you're automatically a psycho.
She puts a finger down.
She's got three left.
Put a finger down if when your parents are yelling at you, you stare them directly in their eye for a long period of time just to intimidate them.
Put a finger down if you go to sleep with socks on.
She still has two fingers.
Put a finger down if someone close to you is crying and the only thing that you can think of is trying not to laugh because it's a defense mechanism.
She puts another.
Put a finger down if you like to chew ice.
She puts a fifth finger down and she starts back up on her next hand.
Put a finger down if you think you can kill someone and get away with it.
Put a finger down if you predict conversations with someone else on your own just so you know what to say when the time comes.
Put a finger down if when you get angry enough you start crying but it's not tears of joy.
She puts another finger down.
Six days before the crash, Mackenzie sends a DM.
To Trisha Paytas on her Instagram account.
Trish, I want to meet you.
Which goes unanswered.
She also reaches out to the controversial influencer, Anna Paul.
Anna, come smoke with me.
She also does not get a response.
And then she reaches out to Tana Mongeau and DMs her.
Tana, my boyfriend cheated on me.
Smoke a blunny with me, please.
So she's just like doing a lot on Instagram.
She's reaching out to freaking Vogue.
She's like reaching out to you.
Vogue?
Yeah.
Okay, we're going to get there.
And she's reaching out to influencers trying to get high with them.
She even posts on TikTok with the audio.
I'm not even cool.
I'm just one of those girls that can do a lot of drugs and not die.
I will note that it's very interesting that her parents were supposedly following her on social media
where she's posting herself smoking and driving and doing all of these things.
And she's 17.
But much, much more to come about the parents, Natalie and Steve, in a later episode.
Now, the most controversial of Mackenzie's TikTok, though, is from Halloween.
She's with three of her friends and they're all in the same costume.
Well, different variations of it.
But Mackenzie is dressed in an all black look.
She's got these black furry boots, black ripped leggings, this super, super tight corset and
this ribbed black top where it looks like someone just put it through a paper shredder.
And you can see part of her chest that in her TikTok post, she keeps covering up with
an emoji and her makeup.
Since it's Halloween, she has painted her face white with these big black circles around
her eyes and a red.
Almost.
Joker like smile.
It's supposedly inspired by Playboy Cardi and the look that he would sometimes perform
with.
It was like during a very specific era of his career, which some people called it the
clown era, but it's more of this vampy corpse, theatrical comic book villain inspired look.
It did look really cool when he would perform on stage with that look.
But but this Halloween post becomes one of Mackenzie's most controversial social media
posts, more than her posting herself driving while smoking weed.
Because everyone says that she looks like she dressed up as a corpse.
Mackenzie's friends are saying, no, that's not true.
We were dressed up as Playboy Cardi.
But also, what about it?
Like, what if she dressed up as a corpse?
It's Halloween.
Get a grip.
But it's not the holiday and it's not the costume.
It is the timing of this Halloween.
People are upset because this was posted and this was done Halloween of 2022.
Just three months after Mackenzie was in a fatal car crash where she was the driver that killed her
boyfriend, Dom, and their friend, Davion.
She was out and about?
Yeah.
Oh, this is not even the first time she's out and about post-crash.
It's called post-traumatic amnesia, or basically a black hole of time where the brain simply fails
to record anything from a window of time, typically the time of injury.
People have reported that in their own car crashes, they have a gaping hole in their memory.
They remember getting in the car, pulling onto the road.
They even remember what song was playing.
And then they don't remember.
They don't remember anything.
They remember nothing.
They don't remember the moment of impact.
In fact, some people don't even remember talking to the paramedics at the crash site.
They know that they were answering questions, but they don't recall a single second of it.
They just recall waking up in the hospital.
That is what Mackenzie and her mom state is happening to Mackenzie.
Natalie says about her daughter Mackenzie, she remembers waking up.
She remembers leaving the house.
Then she remembers turning on the street and that's it.
She was trying to remember, like she's trying.
And I'm like, Mackenzie, you can't.
It's just not there.
In a voice memo to a friend, Mackenzie said, I'm just I'm not doing OK.
Like, it doesn't feel real.
I keep saying this, but it doesn't feel real.
I don't know what the fuck happened.
Thank you for being there for me.
It just means a lot.
Like, I don't remember anything like that is this is just the worst.
It is understandable to some degree, but it's difficult when she's the driver of the car and she's the only one that's alive.
She's the only one with answers as to what happened in that car.
And she says she doesn't remember Davion's dad says, I can see
how someone could have some amnesia from the the impact of the crash.
But the timing just seems really perfect.
I don't understand how your amnesia just lasted the exact right amount of time to not be able to help the police with their investigation.
Mackenzie says it was five in the morning.
They were all at their friend's house.
So it was like a bunch of friends gathered and they decided to head home.
So she's like, we decided to head home back to Dom's.
So it's her, Dom and Davion in the car.
And she says, and I remember turning on the street.
And then I'm waking up in the hospital the next day and I don't, I mean, my whole life is shattered.
The whole morning is just like nothing.
I mean, it sounds crazy, like, but I like, I can't, I'm not going to just lie just because people want to hear a story.
I have no recollection of that morning.
And that's that.
I mean, still to this day, four years later, Mackenzie states, she still does not remember what happened in that car.
She does not remember how she crashed straight into the brick building, how her foot was all the way on the gas pedal.
Never once touching the brake pedal.
And ultimately.
She doesn't remember a single thing about crashing the car, killing Dominic and Davion.
She says she still does not remember.
The prosecutor says, at that point, when they left their friend's house,
I mean, we just have this black hole in the timeline.
The officer knocks on the door to hospital room 715.
Mackenzie's mom, Natalie, invites the officer in.
There's a few other people in the hospital room.
So there's Mackenzie in her cast.
She's got casts on her legs, on her arms.
She's in a neck brace.
She's laying on the hospital bed.
Mackenzie's mom, Natalie, is there.
Mackenzie's dad, Steve, is there.
And two female friends of Mackenzie are there.
This is like the second day?
Yeah.
And they quickly leave.
So now there's just a detective that walked in.
Besides their visiting, I don't think they want to stick around for this.
The officer starts filling out a property release form.
And then that's when the doctor walks in.
So the officer is like writing all of this in his report.
He's like, I walked in.
I saw all these people.
And then I was filling out a property release form
because I came here to give the things that were found on Mackenzie's person in the crash.
Her purse, cash.
Like these are things that he has to give back.
And not the drugs because there were drugs found.
But he's not going to give those back.
So he's filling out this property release form.
And in the notes, he notes some very interesting exchanges.
So first of all, Mackenzie's doctor walks in
and Mackenzie refuses to take a shot that's going to help her with her pain.
Which, fine, right?
Second, Mackenzie gets into a full-blown argument with her dad
where she kicks him out of the room.
She kicks her dad out of the hospital room after cussing him out.
And the officer is like noting this in his report.
She's doing all that.
And he's like, I don't know.
And this is when the detective is like, you know what?
I'm just going to wait for the doctor to leave.
I'm going to be in the hallway filling out the rest of these forms.
And while he's out in the hallway,
he starts having a conversation with Mackenzie's parents, Natalie and Steve.
And he's just explaining the whole process of like,
yes, we're going to give you back this Michael Kors backpack.
And there's some cash that we found as well as clothes in the car
that were recovered from the crash scene.
We're going to give those back.
And then he writes in his report.
They hear a scream from inside the hospital.
While the officer is talking to Mackenzie's parents out in the hallway,
Mackenzie started yelling, telling us to not talk without her being present.
Mackenzie is telling the parents not to talk?
And the police, the officer, the detective.
Without her being present?
Yeah, she's like, why are you guys talking?
I mean, I don't know exactly the words, but he writes in the report.
She started yelling, telling us not to talk without her being present.
That's fucking crazy.
Yeah.
What?
So the three, the officer, Natalie and Steve Chirilla,
they shuffle back into the hospital room
and the officer starts detailing the search warrant
and the basic nature of the entire investigation.
Once he walks back into the hospital room, he is audio recording.
And he lets the Chirillas know.
And he explains, you know, the search warrant lists the nature of the crime
we're investigating as an aggravated vehicular homicide times two
because two people were killed in the car crash.
It does not mean, you know, we're not charging you with aggravated vehicular homicide.
And the officer is trying to explain that everything's really now in the hands of the county.
It is the county that decides whether or not there's going to be any charges that are pressed.
He says, it's not the families.
So it's not going to be up to Dom and Davion's families.
The state chooses whether or not they want to charge.
Is this the first time they found out what type of charges they could be facing or?
I think they kind of knew, but they are shocked by the information
that Dom and Davion's family have no say.
Because they seem disgruntled.
And like Natalie, the mom is like, why?
And she's like, I don't know.
She's basically asking like, well, what if the families don't want to press charges?
And the officer is like, it's not up to the families.
Like, it's not up to them.
This is not a civil case.
Like they, they can't seem to understand
that if the two families of the deceased decide not to press charges,
why on earth would the county press charges?
And they're confused by it, which is crazy because the officer is like,
I mean, it's, it's a crime.
Like, what do you mean?
This is not civil court.
Like I'm a detective.
And so McKenzie,
McKenzie asks the officer at this point, can I say something to her?
And she's referencing saying something to her mom.
So the officer is like, sure.
Yeah.
McKenzie turns to her mom and starts speaking rapidly in a language
that the officer cannot identify.
He can't even tell you.
Like he can't even tell you, oh, she turned to her mom
and was speaking in, I think, Korean.
I think Spanish.
I think Portuguese.
He's never heard this cadence before.
Like he can't even figure out, like, does it sound Eastern European?
Does it sound East Asian, South Asian?
Like he can't even pinpoint where geographically this type of cadence
and dialect sounds like it's coming from.
And McKenzie is rapid fire talking to her mom.
Clearly, Natalie is understanding everything.
She ends the conversation with McKenzie in English saying, you can.
And that's when McKenzie grunts.
Can you, can you just take my whole license away for 10 years
or something like that?
To the police?
Yes.
In my opinion,
the officer sounds kind of flabbergasted
and he just hits her with a, do you have a lawyer?
Talk to your lawyer.
But once the detective leaves,
he's so intrigued by this whole incident of this language
that he cannot decipher.
He reaches out to the chair of the Department of World Languages
at a local university and they tell him,
I let two other language instructors listen
and we were all on the same page.
We all don't think what we're hearing here
is a natural spoken language.
I thought of your suggestion about it being pig Latin
or.
Or something like that.
And I think you're right.
Given the speed at which it's spoken,
it is unlikely to be natural.
So she's saying it doesn't sound like a foreign language.
The cadence and the phonetics of speaker one,
McKenzie are all clearly American English.
Okay.
So it's not like they just know some languages
and they're like, oh, it's not the ones we know.
They study like the cadence and tones of languages.
And they're like, it's the cadence is American English.
Yeah.
So like it.
Did you hear?
Yeah.
I knew pig Latin in high school.
It does sound like pig Latin.
Pig Latin is the one that you move some.
So you move the first letter to the back
and then you add a at the end.
So instead of Stephanie, it would be like,
Tiffany say.
Okay.
Yeah.
But there's.
Can you say that in like, like a natural way?
Like, can you actually talk to people in that?
When I was really young,
I remember pig Latin was like a huge thing
and I could not.
I can't speak anywhere near as quickly as McKenzie does
in this audio file, but you can kind of.
Okay.
Okay.
You can.
So was it pig Latin?
It is not, but it is a different,
like there's so many variations of these types of later.
It is identified by McKenzie's dad, Steve to be carny talk.
It's kind of like pig Latin,
but it was actually used heavily by people who worked carnivals.
That's why it's called carny talk.
I guess they wanted a different way to speak to each other
just so that they can communicate without,
I guess, communicating in front of like, you know,
I don't know.
Right.
Maybe it's like, yeah,
but it's like widely known to be spoken amongst people
originally who would run carnivals.
That's why I guess it's called a carny talk.
That's interesting.
So.
Okay.
Now was it decoded?
Yes.
Now this decoding of the message has been disputed.
Obviously the prosecutors have decoded it
and they believe what we said in that hospital room
just days after the crash.
Steve Sharilla is like, that's not what my daughter said.
You, you decide.
McKenzie is stating she doesn't remember a single important detail
of this car accident.
Right.
But then she turns to her mom and the prosecutor believes she said,
can we just tell them I had a seizure?
That was it?
Yeah.
Like it was like, can we just tell them I had a seizure
or something like that?
Like, can we just tell them?
Whoa.
The three people in that car, the early morning of July 31st, 2022,
where, like I said, McKenzie is in the driver's seat.
Her boyfriend Dom is in the front passenger seat
and their friend Davion is in the back seat.
A lot of people believe that McKenzie and her boyfriend Dom
got into a fight in the car,
which leads McKenzie to freak out going over 90 miles per hour
and slamming into a brick building.
With Davion's life by netizens' speculations not being considered,
they think that McKenzie is the type of person to just,
you know, someone in the back is not pertinent to her
or her relationship and the fight is the most important thing
that could be happening in the car.
Now, this is obviously a netizen theory.
It is one of the more widely accepted versions of events
of what netizens think occurred in the car that night,
which is why there's going to be a lot of time spent
throughout the episode on McKenzie and Dom's relationship.
It is not because Davion's life was not important
or that we don't want to spend time together.
It is because most people believe that whatever happened in the car
could have to do with what McKenzie felt about Dom.
It was reported that McKenzie has known Davion
since they were both in middle school,
since they were in the same class.
It's unclear if this is true or if they ever really even spoke at all.
But according to one of their friends,
Davion and Dom started hitting it off recently.
Dom has a recording studio in his house
and Davion's dream was to be a rapper.
So it just kind of made sense that they would become friendly.
They're not necessarily best friends.
They're not necessarily that close.
They actually have very different friend groups and interests,
but recently they started hanging out and connecting over music.
And we're going to go in depth
because Davion is actually staying at Dom's house
when all of this is happening.
So Davion's family had gone on vacation.
Davion had just started a new job,
so he can't just take two weeks off to go on family vacation.
So he's like, I'm going to stay in town.
But his parents were a little concerned about him staying alone.
So he was like, OK, I'm just going to crash at my friend Dom's place.
- That's crazy.
they been staying together it doesn't seem that long but it seems like they were friends for you
know months ahead of time so it's not like oh they just met and he's staying with dom but it's not
like oh dom and davion were best friends since middle school and they all hung out and these
are you know it's like more of a newer friendship that's been developing so we're gonna go in depth
about what davion's family have said as well as the foundation that they've set up for him in a
later episode but just keep in mind it's a lot of the focus will be on mackenzie and dom throughout
some of these episodes not because davion's life is less important than anyone else's his family
and friends have spoken extensively about what he meant to them how he impacted their lives and what
it means for them now that he's been taken away from them which we're going to cover in a later
episode so with that being said we're just going to get into the relationship mackenzie and dom
have been dating for years before the crash at this point in time dom is 20 mackenzie is about
20 years old and mackenzie is about to be 20 years old and mackenzie is about to be 20 years old
and mackenzie is about to be 20 years old and mackenzie is about to be 20 years old and mackenzie is about
about to be 20 years old and mackenzie is about to be 20 years old and mackenzie is about to be
18 the crash actually happens like a few days before her 18th birthday they've been dating for
years they were both minors they both met in high school but now that dom has graduated he's living
in his own house so he lives alone he does live right next door to his mom so he lives alone but
he's right next door to his mom and he sees his mom a lot his mom cooks dinner he comes over for
dinner it's not like completely independent of a lifestyle but also he's 20 so he's living the
still in high school so it is alarming that she's posting a lot of the things that she's posting
and at some point it's believed that mackenzie had fully moved into dom's house and was living
with him at 17 years old and her parents are seeing these things they're seeing what's being
posted and they're completely fine with it for example the two of them have the parents are
seeing like the smoking driving i would think so because they follow her on instagram whoa that's
that they will post videos dom in his house which again i think this is very normal for a 20 year
old guy i don't think it's normal for a 17 year old girl to be allowed to live in that house
regardless of if it's her boyfriend and that is the fault of the shirillas but she'll post videos
of people dancing on the stripper poles they are fully clothed and people will just like throw
bills in the air so it does seem like high school fun it doesn't seem nefarious or anything but it
is just a very specific type of lifestyle that i would imagine most parents would not want their
17 year old daughter to be in the house so i think it's normal for a 17 year old girl to be
engaged in at this point being 17 years old they would host parties at dom's house because he had
his own house and there is an incident that has been coming up on social media before the crash
the police had already gone out to the house earlier that year in 2022 because at one of these
parties a girl falls down the stairs and the police describe it as she almost died we're gonna call
her k but side note davion was also there and it's been reported that davion was actually one of the
people that helped her before the medics came now a lot of people apparently just like ran off when
she fell because there were clearly questionable activities going on in the house potentially
underage drinking smoking weed i think they were very concerned about not getting in trouble versus
you know worrying about their friend's life the girl that fell k ends up in a medically
induced coma for weeks like she she genuinely almost died it was not a hyperbolic way of
speaking it's not the police being like she almost died she's a teenager no she was she almost died
what what happened like what nobody knows so obviously k's parents don't believe the simple
explanation of oh she just fell understandably so like i would want very thorough answers too
it just doesn't make sense to them in the foia file there are snapchat messages between mackenzie
and her friends talking about this fall and trying to piece together all of them you don't really get
a thorough story of what even happened but you get that there were suspicions one person who
legit what i was saying to people so it seems like if i had to get context clues and this is
just me guessing out of my butt it seems like mackenzie is confronting this girl of like are
you going around telling people that she didn't fall are you going around telling people that
someone pushed her because she's explaining right this girl is like explaining to kenzie like this
is what i said legit what i was saying to people because they were even saying that k was not that
drunk like how could have this happened she wasn't even that fucked up because she wasn't and i said
i don't know no alcohol was in her system a lot of the police and her parents and a lot of the
people are thinking that she got pushed there was foul play in it and i said if there was a
possibility that there were girls there and they were drunk i said i never thought that they
distinctively pushed her i said if anything were to have happened it would have been maybe they
were play fighting with each other and they got too rowdy and drunk because that's how
fucking girls get when they're fucking drunk and i did i did see hella girls by the stairs
and by the fucking door and i had explained to people if it was anything like that it would have
been they missed their step and accidentally pushed k on purpose and it wasn't like accidentally pushed
her on purpose yeah and it wasn't a full-on push accidentally hit her while she was about to go
down the stairs she explains that k had this like big bag of clothes she was carrying and she states
that she told people that she theorized that weighed her down and that's what made her tumble
her and had pushed her that's what the police think and that's why i'm trying to get a picture
of the stairs so i can literally tell them it wasn't like that i don't know my mom was like
they don't think that she just did all that just from falling down the stairs like she has
basically saying like my mom doesn't think k has all these injuries from just falling down the
stairs right and i was like telling her do you really think people would fucking beat up k and
we would just all fucking cover that shit up i honestly just think that's what they think is
happening so that's why i just need a picture of the picture of the picture of the picture of the
stairs i never said anyone pushed her nothing could have pointed to her falling down the stairs
except her missing a step or someone accidentally falling onto her accidentally tripping over her
accidentally catching her step like that's all i said but she literally said it could have been
someone who pushed her though accidentally pushed her on purpose yeah yeah okay in one audio message
mckenzie is ranting to another friend and i don't know if it's about this person right i'm just
again piecing together these like random snapchat data
trying to figure out what the hell is happening and like none of these are like really even in
chronological order so but she says this is mckenzie tell me why i just got off the phone
with fucking sammy and supposedly emily did not even try to fucking catch her emily ran away and
threw up that's what sammy is saying and sammy was the one down there so emily is a major fucking
problem right now it's just weird like if she genuinely fell down the stairs without any sort
i just i mean i maybe this is how high schoolers act and they like to start drama but i this is
such a serious thing i don't think it's just very odd mckenzie eventually makes like an instagram
story and i don't know what she's trying to do if she's trying to clear the air make the situation
worse i think more so the latter but she says just a psa if any of you think that that party situation
is my fault you can go fuck yourself and leave my story right now yeah because we let all you
underage little fucks into our beautiful home and we're not going to let you go fuck yourself
just to do illegal things and you want to blame us aren't you all the ones that ran out of the house
and left and shook her while we called the police and got her there yeah please go fuck yourself and
kill yourself bitch interestingly later dom's mom so mckenzie's boyfriend's mom who lives right
next door says about the situation she supposedly pushed her down the steps in reference to mckenzie
dom's mom describes the situation later to the officers saying
so the big story was so sorry was this talked about before the crash or after the after the
crash so it was you know during the fall i don't think dom's mom got involved because dom is 20
you know so this and i don't know like how it escalated there's no reference to dom's mom
getting involved after the crash to report any of this i don't think she really knew because
i mean she's dom's mom no one's going to her telling her oh what's been happening with the
police that dom's mom did report to the police a lot of dom's friends were coming to her and
telling her information about mckenzie because they feel weird about the crash so they're like
because your son has got like that was our friend we want to help here's this weird information we've
been knowing but like we would have never told you that before the crash because like we just
thought it was like relationship drama or like weird stuff and we don't have proof and so she
explains to the officers i'm sorry when was the fall how early 2022 like january and the crash
happened july 31st 2022 six months seven seven okay she says so the big story was this girl fell
down the steps how did she fall you know she had no alcohol in her system we we have a guardrail
there's a handrail and then as time went on kenzie was the one that told me personally she said
these girls were really out to get her because they were accusing her of pushing this girl down
the steps and she's saying at that time in january i said well what why in the world would you ever
push that girl and she just said i wouldn't push that girl down the steps so she's like i just
didn't think nothing of it at the time but after the fact i'm sitting here thinking and i had asked
another friend of dom's when he called me and he said did you hear that you know she pushed the
girl down the steps so dom's friend also believed she pushed her down the steps and again i know
that he might be a little crazy dom's friend or whatever but he's the one who said that too
so she's like i don't know she's just telling the police like i don't know i don't know i don't know
this is what i heard and like mckenzie also told me people were accusing her at the time
of pushing the girl down the stairs and then now
i'm talking to one of dom's friends who also thinks that she pushed her down the stairs it's
just weird how is the friend k i think she's okay did she did she ever say what happened no i do
think that is a pretty crazy accusation to make that mckenzie would push another girl down the
steps to the point of her almost dying i think that it would really take a very specific personality
for people to think that she's capable of such a thing because you can't just walk around
and think oh anyone is capable of killing somebody and pushing them down the stairs to
the point of like a medically induced coma like you would have to be a very specific type of
personality where people can look at you and think i could see you doing that yeah and that's a very
serious allegation right
mckenzie seems to have gone through a lot of friend groups in high school and the ones that
she is no longer friends with naturally they don't have a lot of great things to say about her
a former friend of mckenzie says i know she smokes weed i mean that's literally her personality trait
that's it that's about it just smoking weed she will post tiktoks responding to creators so she'll
do it tiktoks mckenzie will and it'll say things like how do you smoke but you can't roll meaning
like you can't roll a blunt joint and it's the the song like you is such a loser right and she'll
do it and show dom as like oh well i don't know how to roll because my boyfriend does it for me
that's the vibe but i guess she gets inspired because she also uses a sound to do her own tiktok
about weed she is lip-syncing the words you is such a loser and the caption is when girls only
hang out with me because they know i have weed she really does love smoking weed on her notes app on
her phone police found a birthday wish list and amongst those was weed socks so i guess like the
socks with the little marijuana leaves on there just not really fashion forward but okay her tiktok
handles were baby kush baby cushy weed references cushy means weed i think kush oh yeah she has
another video where she's smiling and the caption reads when everybody knows me not from popularity
but from my horrible reputation so like she she's
to get off on knowing that strongsville kind of hates her she has another tiktok where she's in a
school library with other people and the words on the screen just read most hated bitches of
strongsville she seems proud now side note strongsville is the suburbs outside of cleveland
ohio which it seems like um it's reminiscent of a lot of suburban areas in america cookie cutter
housing developments chain restaurants massive parking lots to accommodate every single fucking
shopping plaza the mall is probably the hangout spot
i grew up in the suburbs i hated it so i can see why mackenzie doesn't fit in and maybe she doesn't
like it she has a distinct style and a stronger personality if you want to call it that but she
does protest about how much she hates strongsville she'll make tiktoks like i seriously can't do i
can't do school anymore it's so stupid and it makes me feel so dumb and bitch i want to go to
new york or florida i just want to go somewhere with good food and good pics which is like pictures
yeah i think it's a very interesting way to like figure out the next city you're gonna live in like
good food and good pics but she herself also stirs shit up all the time she's the type to send audio
notes like this i don't even know who she sent it to but she sends an audio note and you need to get
a facial every month your skin looking mad crusty and you have a pizza face like literally you're
ugly as fuck get the fuck out of my comments bitch damn so like a friend yeah one person says
one of my friends said that they were in a group chat with her and before school she would call the
kids over and over and over and over and over again so much so that you couldn't even open the
group chat because like you were just getting calls like spammed and it was because she didn't
know what she wanted to wear to school so she's just like spam calling everybody she's also just
like a very confusing person she likes to dm friends things like every woman's body is beautiful
like i swear every friend has seen a different version of mackenzie and i can see that through
her dms and text messages to some friends she presents herself as like this girl's girl who
loves people and she just gets hated on on tiktok because you know haters right and then to other
people she's like you have a fucking pizza face it's just shocking okay so she's dming a friend
every woman's body is beautiful every woman is a fucking goddess men need to learn then in other
dms she's calling people fat bitches in one text exchange she tells dom the bitch in the jeep was
about to try to not let me go and i almost got in a car accident in front of her dom responds
what a bitch mackenzie responds i know she's fat and i gave her a dirty ass look and i'm driving
slow as fuck in front of her in another series of dms she's complaining about how she's stressed
out at the prospect of not winning homecoming court best dress perlitive okay she rants bro
if i don't win i'm a freak i don't think she wins because she gets a dm by the real winner's
sister and it seems like they all have some beef okay because the little sister is like you
didn't win because your outfits are ugly oh and i do think that this was a warranted thing
because mackenzie was going around posting um the girl who actually won and she's wearing like a
flannel shirt and she's writing really mean things like i can't believe i lost to a bitch in a flannel
like it was just mean so i think the younger sister was warranted to you know you're young
you're like fuck you i'm gonna stand up for my sister mackenzie responds i'm so sorry you're
so insecure i mean if i was overweight i would probably make fun of pretty
skinny girls too i mean maybe you heard how crazy i am have your big sissy text me if she has a
problem the younger sister responds you're anorexic bitch shopping in the child section ain't cute
mackenzie responds maybe talk shit if you're gonna do something about it we can have this
convo in person if you want to which she responds i can snap your 5 to 70 pound ass like a twig
mackenzie responds is that a threat maybe if you spent all the time eating you would be happy on
your sister's problem meatloaf have a nice day to which the younger sister responds your ass is flat
get well soon hope you end up in a hospital because your twig body got sucked away in the
wind let me know i could blow air on you and you would fly away you're probably one of the
ugliest people i've ever seen mackenzie responds girl i don't care i'm not insecure being ugly is
an illness get well soon which i mean clearly they had problems with each other before this
because what the hell is going on but that's crazy you had every single dm from her yeah yeah
from a time period it was 2 000 pages of dms and it was just like a fucking trip the whole time
yeah and speaking of best dress a lot of netizens are just confused about the school's enforcement
of their dress codes if they even have one it just doesn't make any sense one of her favorite
looks to show up to school high school in is she'll wear like track suits juicy couture track
suits not the new ones because she obviously hates those as per her own tiktok but the old ones and
she will have her track suit low-waisted and then she'll be wearing like a string thong and then pull
up the strings all the way up the sides effectively giving herself a wedgie i mean i get it it's a
stylistic choice but you're in high school you're in high school you're wearing it to school how do
you know this because she posts pictures at school of herself in the bathroom mirror she she'll post
tiktoks she'll do like what i wore monday tuesday wednesday thursday friday and all of them i'm like
this is crazy what's the dress code right yeah what's the dress code what's the dress code what's
the dress code there is an incident where the school report because we got multiple disciplinary
reports from mackenzie's school and the school report reads after being seen by a teacher in
the bathroom taking selfies mackenzie was asked to zip up her hoodie probably because of dress code
and go to class to which she responded by calling the teacher a by calling the teacher a fucking
bitch and a dumb bitch so i guess there is a dress code it just doesn't apply to mackenzie
neither does not being on your phone another school report reads
during class mackenzie was seen playing a game on her phone when the teacher asked her to get off
her phone mackenzie told her she was playing a game with her mother the teacher repeated herself a
second time and mackenzie failed to comply when the teacher told her to go to the administration
office mackenzie went to the restroom and locked herself in the stall it took several teachers to
address the matter with her in another incident another teacher writes about mackenzie many of
the students and a couple of the teachers commented on her behavior and the need for
administration to take action i have been asking for help with her all year i would like her to
remove from my room as i am no longer comfortable with being verbally attacked in front of students
and being videotaped while it's happening to teach her yeah what some people describe mackenzie as a
wannabe maddie from euphoria the tv show there's one instagram dm where they tell her you're
literally maddie irl i aspire to have your energy one day which mackenzie takes this to heart she's
like i'm maddie irl because she dms euphoria on instagram and says cast me i'm that girl she sends
them a video cast me like she says so she's like cast me i'm that girl sends a video cast me then
she starts just pro like spamming photos at this point and says season three question mark and
because i'm nosy i just wanted to do a breakdown she sends a video and then she proceeds to send
17 photos what kind of photo just like
like insta pics yeah where she looks like maddie from euphoria or thinks she looks like
who is maddie just uh just who's maddie
i mean she's pretty iconic yeah but i don't think mackenzie is maddie irl right but i do feel for
whatever intern was handling euphoria socials they deserve a week off because what the fuck is that
she also is just messaging photos of herself to vogue runway to vogue to balenciaga she's just a
very confusing individual she says she doesn't like to body shame but then she will go ahead
and do that if she doesn't like someone she says she hates racism and will call people out publicly
for being racist which is a good thing but she herself will use the n-word in text messages
and also extensively make fun of asian people i just guess really yeah yeah like what more on that
later but like she's got some crazy beef with tiktok and she's like it's because it's fucking
run by them damn asians this is when it was bite dance and not oracle i guess confusing is just not
the correct word it's like hypocritical right for example according to one school report mackenzie
allegedly said she was a racist and she was a racist and she was a racist and she was a racist and
said to another student if i was a slave owner i would have killed and then redact insert student
name who i'm assuming is black based off of this allegation mackenzie denies ever saying that but
at least three witnesses claim that they heard her say that and on the topic of racism another
student reported that mackenzie airdropped them so like on their phone they get an airdrop and
it's a fucking meme of spongebob saying i spy n-word with a hard r like i spy a n-word with a
hard r this is a black student when asked about it mackenzie said oh my gosh no i was airdropped
the meme which she's dropping it to a black student that's yes and so then she's like oh
my god no i never airdropped it like that's crazy i was airdropped that picture but the it just
didn't seem to add up according to the school report the meme was reportedly seen on the phone
and directly attributed to mackenzie
there are disciplinary reports from back in 2018 where mackenzie got into a fight with another girl
while she was walking to the buses she gets into a fist fight then another report in 2018 filed by
the parent of another girl where they tell the police that they're scared that mackenzie is
going to beat up their child the report reads i spoke to my child who stated that while she was
in third period class mackenzie shirilla called her a bitch and threatened to beat her up she
stated this was all over my daughter not giving mackenzie a dorito chip she also stated that
mackenzie posted on instagram last year a picture of her showing her forehead the caption that she
had was a big forehead so just like bullying you know and you know mackenzie allegedly tried to
repost that picture today so when authorities talked to mackenzie about it of course she's like
well no she's the one that threatened to beat me up when i asked for a dorito chip which like
doesn't even really make sense because it's like hey can i have a dorito chip i'm gonna beat you
up like i don't you would just say no you're weird yeah yeah yeah
she also states that the picture on instagram someone took her phone and posted it of course
she would never do that because she's a girl's girl it's hard to say that mackenzie was ever
universally well liked if liked by many at all she says online that she doesn't like anything
designer but in 2019 there's a report of her stealing a pair of earrings from kohl's she was
ultimately not prosecuted because the earrings were not recovered and their value was less than
20 and also another thing about really liking designers she doesn't really like designers she
nothing's wrong with dupes but she just like is so up in arms and has the superiority complex
because she has a christian dior bag but i can literally see her in her dms on instagram sending
people dh gate links to where she gets her stuff so she's like i hate brokies but then it's like
you can't really say that when you're i only wear designer i hate brokies but your bag is dh gate
and nothing is wrong with the dh gate bag but it's also like kind of weird yeah hypocrite yes
a lot of things are hypocritical she will smoke weed until she's apparently coughing up black
stuff because she's essentially fast tracking her lungs to an early demise but she's also
super super anal about sticking to an organic non-gmo gluten-free diet really and why is she
is there a medical reason she says quote in a dm to someone it helps my spiritual journey
she says to be honest i love fruit so that's probably my favorite meal just any fruit she
gets upset when her friends eat her popcorn because she only likes natural all-organic popcorn
but also some people you know they would call her baby kush because she literally smokes so
much weed and posts about it all over social media and then that was her tiktok handle so
what's going on she also rants about restaurants you think their seafood is freshly caught like
none of it was i don't want no farm fish that's nasty as fuck
in another dm message someone sends her a link to melatonin gummies it seems like to help her sleep
and mackenzie responds is it natural they respond yes babes our brains produce it naturally this
should be a case study that organic food consumption does not make one brighter than the
rest let's just say if mackenzie is going to have an anti-fan club there are going to be people
lined up around the block to be the president of that anti anti-fan club and probably for good
reason she's just not really a fan of the anti-fan club she's just not a fan of the anti-fan club
objectively speaking a great person in my opinion am i telling you this in the context of the crash
not necessarily because legally it doesn't work like that i mean just because you're kind of a
weird brat doesn't mean you're guilty of a crime however i do think that this is all contextual
information that would be necessary to understand the case in its entirety and what people have been
saying and why they've been saying certain things after extensively researching i can try to group
up the three major groups of people and how they feel about it and i'm going to go ahead and do a
little bit more detail about this case the first group of people they obviously believe that
whatever happened that night in the car they believe it was an accident now this is like the
smallest of the people from what i could see anecdotally just like surfing on reddit but i'm
not a freaking ai data analyst okay i don't know but it just seems like a smaller group of people
that believe that it must have been an accident because it doesn't make sense you know they think
that maybe mackenzie suffered a medical emergency passed out on the wheel causing this accident
or maybe it's like a car
malfunction and even though the police ruled it out you never know the larger masses however
believe it was planned now to what degree is up for debate so the second group of people believe
that mackenzie planned this crash days in advance that she was going to crash the car with dom in it
and davion just happened to be in the car and she has no regard for anybody's life but her own
a few days before she turned 18 like that people are saying is intentional she allegedly they claim
scoped out the crash and she was in the car and she was in the car and she was in the car and she
was scoping out the crash site now there is evidence that she was on that road previously
but people have interpreted that differently some people are saying like this was a known cut through
other people are saying like no she was scoping out the crash site so take it as you will but
they believe that she drove down the same road multiple times beforehand she planned it to the
tee because she knew dom was going to break up with her soon and davion just happened to be in
the car now the third group of people do they believe mackenzie is planning to be alive after
the crash or i think there's subgroups of people um some people think that she might not have had
that foresight some people think like she probably does because if evidenced by her social media
of posting her driving and smoking there are certain teenagers who live very reckless
lifestyles and who believe that they are almost like physically invincible
other people believe that she just like is such an emotionally volatile evil person that she doesn't
care about her own safety interesting but there's lots of nuanced debates that we're going to get
into later because her head was found under the dash so some people are saying oh that's like
evidence that she could have fainted before the crash some people are saying like that could have
happened just because the air bags are deploying other people are saying she intentionally did it
so that she her face wouldn't get busted from the airbags and she's a narcissist so it's all
just everyone has their own opinion about it now the third group of people who believe that
they don't necessarily think that mackenzie has been planning this days in advance but they do
think that there was intent they do think that this is murder because whatever happened in the car
most likely they believe is an argument that broke out between mackenzie and dom and still
mackenzie has no regard for dom or especially davion's life because he's just in the back seat
she crashes the car in rage and that is still intentional murder so these are like the three
main groups that i've seen obviously the legal outcome
of this case supports the second and third theory that this was intentional murder
which there is intent behind the crash which is why a lot of people have taken to trying
to analyze mackenzie and dom's relationship as it all feels highly relevant whatever happened in the
car most people believe it's either because mackenzie didn't want dom to break up with her
soon or because she got enraged during a fight in the car and was ready to kill him for it
one friend says dom provided everything for
mackenzie mackenzie didn't work a job mackenzie would live with dom dom would provide for her
like with everything dom would buy her groceries dom would buy her clothes anything anything that
mackenzie needed dom gets it for her so they had this relationship where it's like they were just
ready to move on and marry so they felt like you know it was very serious but dom was like the
provider he would even be expected to provide for mackenzie's weed consumption she would make
literal demands there are text messages between the two where she says maybe
if you listened for one second enclosed by the way she writes enclosed like an enclosure like a cage
listen enclosed
closed instead of closed like she's trying to say enclosed your mouth but she's saying
and closed like an enclosure oh yeah oh just listen and close your mouth yeah but she said
enclosed she's like maybe if you listen for a second and closed your fucking mouth you
you would hear what i was saying but you just don't fucking stop going i'm so fucking fed up
with this shit i'm giving you one more chance to give me weed or there's gonna be issues
i'm gonna do a whole separate video part four of this series we're just gonna
go down pretty much every fight that they've had through text messages because
it is a 31 000 page document with over 90 000 text messages that are highly relevant to this
case so that's going to be in part four so like a few episodes later and that's kind of like a
standalone um episode i mean it's just literally just going to be analyzing the full text document
and the journey of their relationship because there's a lot that happens
through 2020 through 2022 there's text messages messages days leading up to the crash and all of
the fights that are happening because there's some a lot of explosive fights and you can really see
mckenzie's i don't even want to it almost feels abusive like you'll see a lot of things in that
episode but that's going to be in part four and this concludes the first half of part one of this
series i'm going to in the second half of part one of this series we're going to go through some of
the text messages that show showcase their relationship dynamic as well as the crash
itself when the officers get there who called 9-1-1 what davion's friends have said all of like
the crash data the black box data that's going to be in this second half so stay tuned for that
stay safe and i will see you in the next one
Podcast Summary
Key Points:
Mackenzie Shirilla, the sole survivor of a fatal car crash that killed her boyfriend and friend, claims to have no memory of the incident due to post-traumatic amnesia.
The crash occurred under suspicious circumstances, with Mackenzie reportedly driving at high speeds into a brick building, yet she cannot recall any details of the event.
A massive FOIA request revealed nearly 5,000 pages of text messages, photos, and social media activity, including communications with her boyfriend, friends, and modeling agencies.
Mackenzie’s social media content shows a pattern of reckless behavior, including driving while intoxicated, posting videos of herself smoking weed, and exhibiting road rage, despite being only 17.
She has a documented list of 48 people she allegedly hates, and her social media posts include extreme displays of self-promotion, toxicity, and performative outrage.
Her parents, though aware of her behavior, did not intervene immediately, while she quickly responded to modeling opportunities and posted selfies shortly after the crash.
A controversial exchange in the hospital room, where Mackenzie spoke rapidly in an unidentifiable language (later decoded as carny talk), has sparked debate about her mental state and communication.
The case has drawn public and media attention, with conspiracy theories, social media reactions, and a five-part investigation examining relationships, texts, and potential motives behind the crash.
Summary:
The case of Mackenzie Shirilla, who survived a fatal car crash killing her boyfriend Dominic Russo and friend Davion Flanagan, has become a subject of intense public scrutiny. Mackenzie claims to suffer from post-traumatic amnesia and cannot recall any events from the crash, despite being the only survivor. Investigators have accessed extensive data—including over 4,000 text messages, thousands of photos, and social media records—highlighting her documented patterns of reckless behavior, such as driving while intoxicated, posting videos of herself smoking weed, and exhibiting road rage.
Her social media presence reveals a performative, self-centered identity focused on fashion, wealth, and influencer culture, with no apparent concern for safety or accountability. Despite this, her parents remained largely passive, and she swiftly began engaging with modeling brands days after the crash. A key point of controversy involves a hospital incident where she reportedly spoke rapidly in an unidentifiable language, later decoded as carny talk, raising questions about her mental state.
The case has sparked widespread debate over her character, motives, and potential involvement in the crash. While the official investigation frames the incident as a tragic accident with no proven evidence of premeditation, public speculation and conspiracy theories persist. The media response, particularly through a Netflix documentary, has amplified emotional and social tensions, especially among the families of the victims.
The investigation is structured into five parts, exploring her relationship with Dom, social media behavior, text message content, possible intent, and alleged connections to prison or jail calls. Ultimately, the case underscores the complexity of assigning blame when one person holds the only memory of a deadly event, while also highlighting broader issues of accountability, trauma, and public perception.
FAQs
Mackenzie was driving the vehicle that crashed into a brick building, killing her boyfriend Dom and friend Davion. She claims to have no memory of the event, citing post-traumatic amnesia.
No, Mackenzie states she has no recollection of the crash, including how she crashed or what happened during the incident. She describes it as a complete memory gap.
The case has sparked widespread conspiracy theories, especially regarding Mackenzie’s relationship with Dom, her social media behavior, and alleged planning of the crash, which has led to public debate and speculation.
Mackenzie posted videos of herself driving while smoking weed, showing off designer items, and expressing disdain for people she perceived as 'ugly' or 'fatty.' These posts have raised concerns about recklessness and lack of empathy.
The FOIA request uncovered over 4,000 videos, 4,896 photos, 31,000 pages of text messages between Mackenzie and Dom, and nearly 93 jail calls, including extensive data from Snapchat, Instagram, and TikTok.
Yes, during a hospital visit, Mackenzie spoke rapidly to her mother in a language that sounded like carny talk, a form of informal speech used by carnival workers. The specific meaning of the message has been disputed.
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