Everyone Who Stood By Mackenzie Shirilla AFTER The Crash
6/18/202639 min
19 year old Davion Flanagan’s family and 20 year old Dominic Russo’s family want to know what the hell happened that morning. How could 17 year old Mackenzie Shirilla drive her car straight into a brick building at 100 mph killing their two boys? How could she be the sole survivor?
This is the case of Mackenzie Shirilla who used a high speed, intentional motor vehicle collision to end the lives of her longterm boyfriend Dominic Russo and his friend/roommate at the time, Davion Flanagan.
After the release of Netflix’s documentary, ’The Crash,’ interest surrounding the case grew but audiences were left with more questions about the fuller picture. Naturally, we FOIA requested this case to the authorities and received:
Over 4 thousand videos.
Over 4 thousand photos.
Around 31 thousand pages of text messages.
Around 92 thousand text messages between just Mackenzie and Dominic.
Close to 800 text messages between Mackenzie and her father, Steve Shirilla.
Close to 2 thousand text messages between Mackenzie and her close friends.
As well as 2 thousand pages of Instagram DMs.
2 entire phone data extraction files with hundreds of personal videos, photos, and audio messages.
And 97 jail calls from Mackenzie post-conviction.
We have gone through all of it and we’re here to break it down for you.
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First 90 secondsStephanie Soo· Host0:00
[static] Bada bing, bada boo. If you haven't already, please go listen to the three previous audio parts that we have on this case, because this is a massive case that we had to break up into multiple different parts just to get through all of the evidence and data that was in the FOIA request that we f- we were provided. In the previous part, we went through how all of Mackenzie's actions after the crash, the way she's texting Dom's family, Davion's family members, specifically Dom's mom, almost harassing the mother of the son that she just killed to go into Dom's house just so that she can lay on the bed. Now, it doesn't appear that anyone believes that she genuinely just wants to lay on the bed- Mm ... and collect some of her things, because the way that she's asking is just excessive, saying, "Why don't you trust me? It hurts me that you won't let me into the place that I spent most of my time at." She is unrelenting. She's exhausting Dom's mom in the most depressing time of her life, likely, and it, it's just nonstop. And Dom's mom is relaying all of this information to the police, providing screenshots of text messages, and letting them know that she has multiple different things that she thinks is really helpful to the investigation. Dom's mom breaks down when talking to the investigator. She says, "I just figured that maybe Mackenzie needed to grow up. She's young. I mean, do you guys know what I'm saying? You don't think that it's going to come to this." They ask her, "What were your motherly instincts? Like, what did you feel around Mackenzie, especially in the presence