399: What Netflix's "The Crash" Left Out | Proof, Receipts & Timelines | The Case of Mackenzie Shirilla

That was just kind of shocked.

“Yeah, I didn't really know how to process it all.”

Our fucking fuel was the horrific crash. So you know there's an occupant inside. We got plus the window out. I just felt like there was more to the story than just an accidental crash. Hey, true crime besties.

Welcome back to an all-new episode of serial escape. Hello, hello, hello, and welcome back to an all-new episode of serial escape. Me, your host, and your true crime BFF, Annie Elise.

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My name is Annie, and what I like to do on here is not only deliver and present a true crime case to you, but do it in a way where it is the full deep dive. Going down the rabbit hole so that you don't have to. All the details, the social media activity, past relationships, everything that you find yourself, Google in yourself when you're watching a documentary. I find all that information out, and then I present all of it to you.

But my goal in doing that is to do it in more of a conversational way. As if your friend or best friend was telling you about this case that they just heard about, and that they can't stop researching or thinking about or talking about.

“So again, if you're brand new, that's what we do over here.”

If you enjoy it, subscribe and follow the podcast, and that's how it goes. Every single Monday, a brand new case, and then every Thursday, I do an episode called headline highlights where I talk about everything happening in real time that week in the true crime world. Now, today, we're doing one of the infamous deep dives. And you may have heard about this case, if you listen to true crime or follow true crime, you may have also seen clips of the trial or footage from the case in your TikTok feed or your Instagram real speed,

because it's the case of Mackenzie Sharilla. A name that a lot of people do know, but many don't. You also might be familiar with the name because Netflix just released a documentary about this case called the crash. And what's really interesting is there's a lot of division with this case. Many people believe that what happened was intentional, that this is, you know, the product and result of a spoiled young girl who had everything in her life.

And then the moment she had something went wrong, she decided to take it out on everybody else. While some say, no, this was absolutely accidental. She was too young to know how severe this was going to be and what her actions would truly cause. And there's a little bit of conflicting opinion out there.

Now, I will say this personally, I first covered Mackenzie's case years ago.

And with that, I have done extensive research. I've interviewed a lot of people close to the case. I participated in a documentary back then where I was shown a lot of privileged information before it even went to trial. Different things like that to where my belief is that this was absolutely intentional. But again, not everybody agrees with that.

And that's certainly okay, which that's my point in why I'm coming on here today. I want to present the case to you with a set of fresh eyes, new perspectives, everything we've learned, things that have come out post trial.

“So that then you can really decide for yourselves, what do you believe?”

Do you believe that this is all just a horrific, tragic accident? Or do you believe that this was calculated and intentional? So, let's start here. I want you for just a moment to imagine being a teenager again. Because I say again, because I feel like a lot of you aren't teens. I feel like we skew a little older over here, so, but if you are a teen, you're involved too.

But I want you to imagine being a teenager and you're just graduating high school. It's that super exciting time in your life where you're young, you're full of life, you have dreams, ambitions. There's parties, there's excitement and like you just can't wait for what's to come. But then, you get word that three other teenagers who live in your area, potentially even our classmates of yours, were in a deadly car crash.

And even more than that, one of the worst car crashes that first responders had ever seen in the Ohio area.

It rattled the entire community. There was shock, grief, confusion, but above all else, there were a lot of rumors. Rumors that took what seemed to be a very simple yet tragic car accident into something potentially far worse.

In the early morning of July 31st, 2022, the peaceful suburb of a strongsville, Ohio, nestled at just outside of Cleveland,

“became at the scene of a heart-wrenching tragedy that rocked its tight-knit community forever.”

Initial reports began to surface about a devastating car accident involving three people. 19-year-old Davian Flanagan, 20-year-old Dominic Rousseau, and 17-year-old Mackenzie Schrilla. Both Davian and Mackenzie had just graduated from Strongzville High School just a few months earlier. Early on in the investigation, law enforcement believed that Mackenzie Schrilla somehow lost control of the Toyota camera that she was driving. And then crashed into a brick building on Alameda Drive at 5.34.

It wasn't till approximately 45 minutes later at 6.15 a.m. that a pastor buyer, a runner who was out for their morning jog, came upon the wreckage and immediately dial 911. When law enforcement arrived, they found all three passengers unconscious. Unresponsive and trapped within what was now just a brutally mangled car frame. The first responders from Strongzville Fire Department worked quickly to help get Dominic Davian and Mackenzie out of the car.

Unfortunately though, both Dominic and Davian were declared dead at the scene. Mackenzie who is driving the car was critically injured and flown to Metro Health Medical Center. Investigators waited for the results of her blood testing, which would show if drugs or alcohol played a role in this crash. The victim's families and the community were completely grief-stricken and frankly just sick about this. Dominic and Davian now had their potential dreams and futures abruptly cut short.

Dominic had started a successful business and always talked about all of his big plans for the future.

And Davian was a fantastic football player, well known in the community and had plans to open up his own barber shop after high school. But now, all of that was gone in an instant. The community sadness and loss eventually led to many questions. Why was this a one car accident?

“If Mackenzie lost control of the car, how did that happen?”

What was going on inside the car leading up to this? Was Mackenzie intoxicated or under the influence of some type of drug? Why were all three of them even over on Alamina Street in that part of town in the early morning hours to begin with? It's not near where Mackenzie Dominic or Davian lived, so where were they going? And how could this possibly happen?

Mackenzie underwent extensive medical treatment for her injuries and somehow survived miraculously. However, she said that she couldn't remember what happened leading up to the crash. She said that she had blacked out.

Now, just for a moment, I am going to draw on my personal experience for a second.

A lot of you know who have been with me for a while on here that you know that I was in a horrific car accident when I was 16 years old. I wasn't wearing my seat belt. I flew at the windshield knocked out some teeth and ended up having brain surgery from how awful this car accident was.

“And I can say, even now, I still do not remember anything from that accident.”

And I wasn't the one driving, but I was in the accident and I'm still blacked out. I remember leaving the house that morning. I don't remember the accident. I don't remember the final moment coming out of the accident.

The first memory I have is when first responders were already there on scene and they were cutting me out of my clothing and getting me out of the car.

But I don't remember anything else. So, there has been a lot of speculation if Mackenzie was in fact blacked out during the accident or even has a recollection of the memories leading up to the accident itself. And if that's true or not, and I, while I don't know in her situation, if she's lying or if it were true, and we'll talk more about that as we go on. But I do want to mention that it is entirely possible to black out even the events leading up to the collision itself. Because for me, that is what exactly what happened.

So while law enforcement began going further into their investigation, many people in the community began to talk. And the community had strong yet mixed feelings about what they thought happened here. Some people thought that this was just a tragic accident. But others who knew Mackenzie and Dominic, and knew them more closely, began to believe that this wasn't an accident at all. And instead, it was something far more sinister.

Mackenzie and Dominic began dating in 2021, and they had an overall tumultuous relationship. They would break up, get back together, and then they would do it all over again. The pattern just was on repeat. And I know that that can be sort of a vague statement, saying that a relationship is tumultuous. But we're going to get into their relationship more and just a little bit here, so stick with me.

Davion was one of Dominic's close friends.

“According to news reports, Davion, Dominic and Mackenzie were hanging out at a party, and smoking a little bit of weed, the night leading up to the crash.”

And Mackenzie and Dominic offered it to give Davion a ride home. Mackenzie was described by people who knew her in high school as selfish and entitled,

and she never had to really take any accountability for her actions.

She always just kind of got away with everything. After Mackenzie began to recover from the accident, many of the posts on her Instagram and TikTok, really upset people as well, and we will get into specifically what she posted here shortly. Most of her social media has now been deleted, so I couldn't find much except for a few screenshots here and there. However, people in the community who knew her from school commented on social media about Mackenzie's behavior,

and all of those comments are still public. Some of the posts said that her parents knew about her drug use, and that her mom would like some of the pictures that she posted when she was smoking weed.

“And some pictures sparked outrage because people thought that she just was moving on with her life,”

as if nothing ever happened with no remorse at all.

There were also some pictures Mackenzie posted with her and her friend dressed as a weed for Halloween, which also caused a huge stir online. Several classmates weren't surprised that this horrific tragedy resulted from Mackenzie's actions, even going as far as to say that she probably would have killed someone one day anyway, and that she only cared about herself and herself only.

Other people felt like Mackenzie had definitely done drugs, and that that is what caused the crash. And the police seemed like they weren't doing anything about it. And now this was another situation where Mackenzie would just get away with her selfish and dangerous behavior once again. While all of that online speculation and discussion over what happened that tragic night, wouldn't matter for much longer, because a few days after Halloween, everything changed.

It turned out that the police were not letting Mackenzie get away with anything, and they had been conducting a thorough investigation this entire time. On November 4th, 2022, Mackenzie was arrested. According to court documents, Mackenzie faced a total of 18 charges. Counts 1 and 2, aggravated murder, counts 3, 4, 5 and 6, murder, counts 7, 8, 9 and 10.

Filonius Assault, counts 11 and 12, aggravated vehicular homicide, and all of these charges were related to that crash on July 31, 2022. Count 13, trafficking, count 14, drug possession, and both of these charges were for the magic mushrooms that were found inside the car. Count 15, possessing criminal tools, and this was for a digital scale that was found in the car. So there were 15 charges in total related to the car crash and to the deaths of Dominic and Davi on. The other three charges were for allegedly breaking into the Columbia Church of God in Columbia Station on July 19, 2022.

Those charges were count 16, breaking and entering, count 17 vandalism, count 18 desecration. Mackenzie's blood test from the hospital revealed that she had a THC in her system and that she was likely high at the time of the accident after their investigation and talking to witnesses who saw her that night. Even though mushrooms were found in her car, this was apparently not in her test result. Mackenzie's bill was set at $500,000, but she didn't get billed out of jail and remained in juvenile custody until it was time for trial.

The body cam footage of Mackenzie's arrest was finally released in 2025, and I have to be real with you.

It's an absolute doozy. I don't use that word lightly. I personally hate that word. And I don't want to give too much away before I show you guys some of the clips, which for those of you who are listening to the audio version of this.

“You'll be able to hear what's happening, but I do encourage you, pop over to YouTube, watch the visual as well, because I think that will provide more context.”

But what I have to say is that Mackenzie shows absolutely zero remorse. Zero remorse for any of the crimes that she was being charged with. I'm Mackenzie. Stop out for me. I'm Detective Hasrew. I'm the one who's been investigating the crash. You're under arrest for aggravated murder times too.

Nobody's going to ask you any questions. Nobody's going to bother you. Can you please be careful taking this one off, so it doesn't break. We got it. We got it. Okay, Mackenzie. I'm taking this off, and he's like all the children everybody's come on, okay?

I think we're in love with him. No, I need to take it off while you're in jail right now. Okay, where is he?

coming up for sure what's going on.

Everything's going to be backed up here. It's not going anywhere. Sorry, that doesn't look like one of those. It's really hard to get off. It's trying to take you kind of. Her first response to being told that she was being charged with murder was to take care of a bracelet.

Take care of a bracelet so that it didn't break. And then after being told that she could not wear any jewelry in jail, which obviously should be common sense, right? But I guess it's not all that common who knows. She started to break down.

That's what rattled her.

“That's what made her upset because she couldn't wear jewelry into the jail house.”

I mean, again, it just kind of goes back for me at least into this spoiled, entitled, young girl thinking that the world revolves around her. But anyway, back to her arrest.

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when prosecutors and the judge agreed to try her as an adult. When the crash occurred on July 31, 2022, Mackenzie was 17. Her birthday is on August 2nd. So she turned 18 just two days after everything happened.

She had a hearing in April of 2023 via Zoom, where Mackenzie pleaded not guilty as the judge continued her bond at $500,000. But again, Mackenzie remained in custody. During the hearing the prosecution told the court, the evidence in this case overwhelmingly indicates

that these were intentional and purposeful deaths. On July 19th, 2023, almost a year after the horrific crash,

During the hearing, Mackenzie did not accept a plea deal that the prosecution was offering and her lawyer indicated that they were prepared for trial. In the US, you have a right to a trial by jury or a bench trial. If defendants want to waive their right to a trial by jury for whatever reason,

they can. And this can be a defense strategy if, for some reason, they are worried about what a jury verdict would be. Some defendants may feel like they would have more of a fair shot if the judge were to decide their verdict based on the law,

fearing that potential jurors would make their decision based on emotion and not the law necessarily. However, that isn't the only reason that people waive trial by jury. There are a number of reasons why people choose that route. Additionally, defendants do not have to provide a reason to the court

for their decision to waive a jury trial.

“So with that, that's what Mackenzie chose.”

And her bench trial was set for August 7th.

The first day of trial began on August 7th,

just five days after Mackenzie's 19th birthday. During opening statements, the prosecution detailed all of the moments leading up to the devastating crash. 615 in the morning, strongsville police and emergency personnel. I received the 911 call.

They revealed the black box inside Mackenzie's vehicle had been clocked at 100 miles per hour. Black boxes aren't the official term. It's an EDR or event data recorder. But these devices record driving and vehicle data

from immediately before, during and after an automobile crash. And that wasn't all. They also had cold, hard evidence to prove this. Because when the accident occurred a nearby building security camera caught the entire thing on video.

In the video, you can see Mackenzie's car going extremely fast

before disappearing off the screen and ultimately crashing.

The prosecution also said that they didn't just happen based on reckless driving either. And they would present a witness who overheard Mackenzie's threats. That he observed at that time the defendant's striking

dominant groups of with both hands. And that he overheard her make a statement. An admissible statement. And she said, Dominic, I'm going to crash this car.

“We find that it is especially been important to her state of mind”

just two weeks later. When she used the car to kill Dominic herself. Despite this, Mackenzie's lawyer, Minister Mack Donald, of course, had a much different perspective. He argued against the insinuation of intent.

Instead, he said that this was a tragic accident rather than a pre-meditated act. How can you come to any conclusion other than if anything she's reckless? Is it just kids being kids?

Is it dominant grabbing the steering wheel? Is it Mackenzie? Maybe speeding and saying, oh, my god. Mark out, it's late. I'm coming up to this.

I better do something to you. Avoid an accident, not acting purposely, but in fact, trying to avoid it. Is its sudden acceleration panic? Those are all possibilities. Mr. McDonald also said that the side airbags going off

in the final seconds before the crash could have contributed to the severity of the event. He said, and I quote, "It occurred in about four and a half to five seconds before. It's a significant force that makes a huge sound.

There's talcum powder or some type of powder that is let go." So if they only have five seconds of recordings, and those five seconds are all what happens after the airbag is deployed,

“how can you come to any conclusion other than if anything she's reckless?”

During the course of the four day trial,

many first responders and other witnesses were called to the stand.

It turns out that there was more to the crash than just that video of McKenzie flying by at a hundred miles per hour. There was another building that captured footage of McKenzie turning on the street before pressing on the gas. In this video, you can see McKenzie driving at a completely normal speed,

breaking as she prepared to turn as well. Her blinker was on and was signal to the correct direction that she was going. This video was key to the prosecution's argument that this was intentional and wasn't some wild situation where she was driving completely out of control the entire time. Even worse, experts spoke about the EDR box in McKenzie's car

and said that through their investigation, they were able to determine that McKenzie had the gas pedal pushed all the way down and made no attempt to ever even use the brakes. The crash team analyst also said about one second before the crash, the steering wheel made a hard-right turn of 142.5 degrees.

It also showed the impact from a sign in the grass outside of the building,

McKenzie's attorney questioned the analyst about the wheel moving

“in an attempt to insinuate that it's possible that one of the victims moved to the wheel,”

by saying that it's basically impossible to know who pulled that wheel and caused the crash.

He also suggested that because it was dark, maybe it was hard for McKenzie to see. But even in his defense, he conceded that McKenzie's handling of the car was in fact reckless. When the prosecution reviewed the crash scene photos and the photos of the victims during their autopsies, everyone in the courtroom was extremely emotional, including McKenzie.

Dominic's mother Christine Rufso testified. The courtroom vibe changed instantly when she began her testimony. Everyone could tell that she had once cared deeply for McKenzie. After all, McKenzie had even lived with them for a while, but the love story that she painted between McKenzie and her son Dominic was far from rosy.

It seemed like they were always at odds with threats and arguments overshadowing the good times.

She also brought up a text message that McKenzie sent her after the crash

“where McKenzie said, "I remember turning onto the street”

and then my vision fades to black. It really kills me not being able to remember anything. I promise you I would tell you. I've been asking my therapist why I don't remember and she said it's because of trauma, but I'm going to try to get hypnotized and make myself remember."

Then Dominic's older brother Angelou Rufso took his turn. The raw emotion in his voice said it all. He talked about how McKenzie and his brother were constantly on and off again, saying, "I witnessed a lot of negative behavior from her to my brother, and that just kind of pushed me away as a big brother figure

because she just wasn't fair to him." One of Dominic's friends Christopher Henschmarin was also called to the stand to testify. This was to testify about an incident between McKenzie and Dominic in a heated fight where she threatened him. According to court documents, on July 17, 2022, approximately two weeks before the deadly crash,

McKenzie was driving her vehicle on Interstate 71 with victim Dominic Rufso as the passenger, when she threatened it to immediately crash the vehicle. McKenzie was upset over a disagreement between the two of them, which resulted in Dominic seeking the help of his mother, Christine Rufso, drew a phone call asking her to come and pick him up.

Dominic's friend Christopher Henschmarin went to pick up Dominic and remained on the phone with Dominic during the incident. While on the phone, he heard McKenzie state, "I will crash this car right now." McKenzie exited the highway onto Route 82 between Pearl Road and Bagley Road. As the friend pulled up to get Dominic and McKenzie's car pulled over to the side of the road, the passenger door opened and the friend observed McKenzie striking Dominic with both of her hands.

Dominic then exited the vehicle and left with his friend. The prosecution also brought up another incident in July of 2022 between McKenzie and Dominic, according to court documents. In July of 2022, within the same month as the deadly crash, McKenzie again made multiple threats toward Dominic. Videos recovered from Dominic cell phone revealed the altercation involving McKenzie,

where she can be heard repeatedly degrading Dominic, threatening him and damaging his property. It is understood from the videos that Dominic was not comfortable letting McKenzie inside of his home at the time, and he made multiple attempts to reason with McKenzie to come to defend and down and communicate with the defendant in a better manner. McKenzie refused these attempts and can be heard banging on Dominic's house door, demanding to be let inside. McKenzie called Dominic a multitude of degrading and highly inappropriate names.

Despite Dominic's efforts trying to reason with McKenzie, she refused to listen and continued her erratic behavior. Exceedingly important are the threats made by McKenzie to Dominic throughout the incident. She threatened to key Dominic's car if he would not let her in, and she verbally counted down multiple times in an attempt to force Dominic to let her in. She repeatedly told Dominic that this was his last chance to let her in. And she stated, "You're going to come open the door right now, or there's going to be a serious fucking problem."

She threatened to break the handle off the door and can be heard hitting and damaging the door as well.

McKenzie stated, "Dom, I'm going to give you one last second or else I'm king your car."

Dominic then had to call his mom for help and stopped recording. Now that phone call that I just described has actually been made public.

“The original call was about nine minutes long, but honestly it doesn't really take the full nine minutes to see that McKenzie was threatening him.”

She was antagonizing him.

You broke up with me earlier. You really broke up with me earlier.

You're last chance to open the door, or you are not coming out of this house all night, because I will not leave. You literally broke up with me earlier, you're like, "What is the point you're trying to say? You broke up with me earlier." No, no, I didn't. I didn't. I didn't. You really said, "What are you trying to say?" You really broke up with me earlier.

“Like, "What are you trying to make?" Why would I just let you in the line?”

If you broke up with me, you're not even a break my shit. You're not even a car. You're not even a break the door. You're not even a car. You're not even a car. If you don't let me in the house. Dominic, if you don't do that, I'm just like, "I'm joking. Do you think I'm joking?"

What are you doing next about? I'm a fan, and I give you one last chance to open the door.

I can't open the door. I can't see if you're in a file.

I can't see if you're in a file. I mean, we didn't go to dinner. If I could see my girlfriend saying, "I can't, I can't see." Don't open the door. I'm gonna let you know that right now. Then I'm going. What would happen? What are you trying to say? You're not coming to dinner. You're not going to dinner.

What do you mean? You know exactly what I mean. Because you don't know exactly what I mean. You're gonna come open the door right now. Or there's gonna be a serious, fucking problem.

I can't know. You can't keep going. You can't keep making all your starts. I can't open the door. Now, you out of a place that you say is my home.

“I think that you are. You talk all your shit in death. And so we were done.”

You're not saying we're done. John, okay, ready? I'm gonna count in the time. The door is gonna open. You're gonna open the door. That's why it's the highest door.

Like a little fucking bitch. If you hang up on me, we're done. I'm leaving. Can't see. There's not, and I could do. Like this is, I think, I'm about right now. I can't let you in my house with how you act. Like it's as simple as that.

Like there's no way out. There's no way I should. Like, there's no way I should. Huh? I'm just gonna break the handle. I'm 30 moving. I can break the lock. Like you're really gonna break into my house.

Yes, I will. I will break into my house. You're right. I will break into it. It's not, not your house. Who does this? John, I'm not open the door. Now open the door.

You have 30 seconds left on the phone called open the door. We're done.

So if you're wondering how all of these prior acts were able to be brought into trial in the first place,

since it's technically 404B evidence, it's because the prosecution filed motions to allow it in, saying that it went to Mackenzie's motive. According to court documents, the prosecution believed Mackenzie's past threats and aggression toward a Dominic,

“provided an important perspective of how Mackenzie responds in situations”

where she is displaced or in disagreement with others. Further, the evidence shows that she was aware of her ability to cause harm to the victims, especially by means of her own vehicle, and how she could use the power of threats and control to ultimately reach the outcome that she desired. The other acts' evidence confirms that there was no mistake or accident in deliberately crashing her car,

and ending the lives of the victims. Dr. Esther Sthing, a Metro Health System trauma surgeon who worked on Mackenzie's medical report, was also a witness in the trial. She told the court that Mackenzie told their team at the hospital that she did not remember what led to the crash. The prosecution also asked the surgeon to read part of the medical report.

She said, and I quote, "Pastion then became tearful, processing heavy loss and a depression since her accident. Patient-shared feelings of grief, guilt, and shame. Patient-stated, she wanted to die and that it was her fault for killing her boyfriend." One of the prosecution's theories was that Mackenzie was afraid that Dominic might break up with her

or really leave her. So instead, she decided to kill him with her car like she had threatened to do in the past. For Davion, who was just innocently trying to get her right home, was collateral damage. And Mackenzie didn't even care if he died too. However, some people who were at the same party before the crash didn't recall anything crazy

going on between Dominic or Mackenzie that night. So either something must have happened in the car or she planned on going through with it that night anyway. But the prosecution had even more damning evidence to prove this was in fact a pre-meditated planned murder. Because there was evidence that Mackenzie had been to that area of the crash just three days beforehand.

They suggested this as proof that she was familiar with the scene before the day of the crash

and believe that this was her attempt to scope out the area and come up with a plan. It was also brought up that Mackenzie was trying to kill herself along with Dominic and Davion in the car. But just happened to survive. Okay, can I be honest? I used to walk into the gym.

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Pastoral orathostatic techacardis syndrome, a condition which causes dizziness. When the connection between the crash and McKenzie's condition was brought up, her mom said that it could be. McKenzie's aunt also testified with a much different story of what McKenzie and Dominic's relationship was like.

“She believed that the two were honestly head over heels for each other,”

despite all the rumors and talk about them having a rocky relationship. Many people felt that McKenzie's mother's testimony was another example of her mom trying to excuse her daughter's bad behavior. Scherilla is also facing charges of felonious assault and aggravated vehicular homicide. The judge says she'll deliver a verdict on Monday at 1 pm.

And then the verdict was in. There is something that I can do or say today that will return these two young men to their families. There is nothing I can say or do. The storm McKenzie struggled to the life she had before July 31, 2022. And there is nothing that I can say or do.

To restore the lives of these three families before the fake moments on that day.

Those decisions have forever altered the futures of three families, and of you also against. And your decisions forever rocked Dominic and heavy on the futures that they had for no. If there is one thing that can be taken away from this case, it's painful as it is.

Every decision we make is important. Every action we make is important. Regardless of whether the decision is a good one or a bad one or the actions are good or not. The result is the same. The consequences ripple through time.

And affect many more people than one might think at the time of the decision. The criminal case is the state carries the greatest burn under our law. As I previously stated, I consider all the evidence presenting. And at this point, I would like to comment specifically on the exhibit 802. The graph video.

This is the type of evidence you can never unsee.

“You can never forget the visual or audio of this exhibit.”

Just chilling and tracking. As you review that exhibit, you know that you are watching the eye coming deaths of two people. And there is nothing of what's happening. The video clearly shows the purpose and intent of the defendant. She shows, of course, the depth and destruction of the evidence.

The exhibit 802 crystallizes the identity decision making of the defendant. She morphs from a responsible driver to literal hell on wheels. But she makes her way down the street. Becansy alone may the decision to drive the car. To drive and obscure route.

Or route she visited a few days before. And a route not something to take advice on. Becansy alone shows the time to make the drive. Really in the morning.

When any reasonable person would expect a few people would be nearby to leave a sit.

Or offer life saving assistance. She made these decisions despite knowing as any reasonable person would. The permission of death could have been called others. Not even in the farld firm. Other people, other farce.

The deserings.

“She had a mission and she executed it with precision.”

The mission was death. They can't see along with sighted to push the pedal to the floor. Demand the ultimate speed of that vehicle. So now you two hundred miles per hour. She alone decided what was to be.

Becansy decided death was the ultimate goal that day. Five to ten and the Kenzi should really go to the murder. To it day beyond plan. The violation of a heart-wise code section. Two night, three, eight, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine.

A star-action counseling thing. Do you know what I mean? Count free murder. Before having had count free tried to be pursuant. Five to ten and the Kenzi should really go to the murder.

To win Dominic Rousseau. In violation of a heart-wise code section. Two nine, oh three, go to be the stars in counseling. Count for murder.

“Before having had count for tried to proceed.”

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Count for. Count for. Before having had count five. Try to pursuant to waver. Five to defend.

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This chart in count five. What he did. Count six. Will he on all counts. In the video, you can see Mackenzie's family seated in the front row behind her.

Visibly upset and shocked. As Mackenzie was leaving the courtroom, you could hear her family speaking loudly to talk to her. At Mackenzie's sentencing, the judge heard a victim impact statements from the victim's family.

Uh, you're on my name is Janey Flanagan. I am the mother of the victim. David Young's land again. I want to share the small part of what we lost. On 7, 21, I'm sorry, 7, 31.

It was late.

My son, David, is and always will be so much more than part of him.

He was fascist. He was an amazing school. He gave to the world. What he wanted most in his own life. But then kind of love.

That would rescue a friend in the middle of the night. No question says.

He made friends easily, because in fact, his smile. He was a gifted athlete. He had plans to go to barber school. And over his own shop.

“My son, you know, had a political friends.”

But instead, he had plans to go to barber school. He had plans to go to barber school. He had plans to go to barber school. But instead, he was a friend of all. He would go out of his way to show love and kindness to others,

including those that were often cast aside by society. The less fortunate, the developmentally challenged the hurting and the ungodly. David, I'm sure that everyone across his path knew that he truly saw them, that he's valued them. And then they were worth his time.

David, on in my kids, have had more than their fair share of our breaking of our ship and of loss. And David was adopted with his sisters from foster care. Their biological siblings. We are honored to be chosen, or to have been chosen, to be no parents.

They're forever family. I am devastated, but in the loss of David, the world lost a truly special meaning. My girls lost their best friend, their protector, to one and only trusted feeling that has been by the side from day one.

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“understands the pain and loss that they have gone through,”

and was always there for them. This fact of loan breaks my heart with my girls. But, you know, when you dream shattered, a future stolen,

we will never get to see the amazing man that he was surely to become.

He, his life was precious. Like I said, he was so much more involved. I pray, daily for strength, and perseverance for myself, and for my family. I also pray that we can see will thanks for when the Lord is no heard,

and should remember him. We think all of those that were so hard to help us through justice first son. We are forever. David, we miss you terribly. But, as Christians we agree with hope,

we will make sure you're memory, plan song, and we aim at the day that we are not going to get into trouble. Hello, could you start with your name? Hi, hi, my name is David. I am a fan again.

David was my older brother. The best of the day, I got my help.

“I am a fan, and it has been very difficult for me.”

We have gone through everything together since day one. David wanted a big brother to be at my aunt for the young. We all got adopted together, and did not want to go. After day one passed away, a large child went and passed, and he was my wife.

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“He started as his parents and siblings trying to hide the dirt after his burial”

and it blossomed into this beautiful memorial site that keeps us working together in honor of Dom. My mom tends to it every day for hours. Whether it's printing pictures for everyone to look at, adding solar lights, adding decorations, keeping up the landscaping around it, adding and exchanging hundreds of flowers, eliminating letters and pictures, finding trinkets to add to it or beautiful statues, etc.

This is what we do it for. For Dom and it's an honor of our beloved brother and son. Friends and family leave memorabilia notes pictures things like that that remind them of Dom. Somehow yesterday, his grave was set on fire and everything burned to the ground. Nothing was salvageable except a cement cross.

Most of the items were irreplaceable, such as flowers and ribbon from his funeral letters from his nieces and nephews and friends and siblings and parents, stuffed animals things that can't be replaced. The items cost us thousands of dollars and will cost us thousands to replace. Most items were very expensive.

We spent on the flowers alone originally around $1,200. Each solar light decoration can range up to $50 a piece. We are asking for any donations from friends and family so that we can get his grave site back to how it was. And before July 31st of this year, which marks his one year anniversary, Dom's grave means so much to us.

Words can't explain. We miss and love you so much, our new cheap baby.

“Until we meet again, your sister loves you.”

Since then, the GoFundMe has been updated stating, "Hi everybody, just wanted to say thank you for all of your generous donations. We were able to recreate Dom's grave beautifully. Any further donations will go to purchasing updated memorial items, such as flowers, etc. in the future.

Thanks again, we love you so much, Dom. So when it came to sentencing, the state gave their recommendations for sentencing and reasoning. There are the very little that I can say after hearing from those who loved Dom, I can be on in regards to the impact that the defendant's conduct had on these family's lives.

And summarizing means they described her as a good student and a loving and caring person.

And that she could never do something like this.

And they continually, despite the verdict, refer to this as an accident and an unfortunate accident and tell you that she is also a victim.

“And there are just a few things that I think is important for the court to consider in determining a sentence today.”

Part of the evidence in this case and introduced in trial was evidence from the defendant's cell phone and there were search warrant executed on her various social media accounts. Her school records, her medical records, things of this nature. And I think that who she actually was is directly contradictory to what is painted by the letter submitted on behalf of her today.

I'm not even cool. I just want to let's go back and do a lot of drugs and not die.

I'm the kind of girl that can do drugs and like not die. I'm the girl you die for. Both of those videos were posted on her TikTok. Shortly after the crash, Charlvesville Police were notified that they had received concerning emails from the community that the defendant and her mother were seeking employment with the Los Angeles Model Agency.

“Canzley Shirella said to Vitali, "Thank you for the comment. I would love to work with you guys.”

But emailing you guys a lot. Such a great opportunity. Thank you." There is not a date on this your honor. Based on the investigation, it was delivered to the police while the defendant was still in the Metro Health Hospital. So it was during that time period she was in the hospital for several weeks. Shortly after being released from the hospital, the police were provided additional videos of the defendant from her wheelchair

as she attended a concert down in the flats. And again, your honor, I'm introducing these to the court to show the shocking lack of remorse. This was something that was being exhibited while the investigation was still going on before she was charged in a resident in November of last year. And these were the sort of things that were coming to the police and the shocking lack of remorse. Coupled with the fact that the defendant was reported driving an automobile shortly after this event

that she was seen in Strong'sville again, driving a car in spite of the fact that as her mother testified, she got dizzy some kind from a condition that she had to take salt pills for despite of the fact that it was in fact her mother who provided her with the car that she used to take down an opinion on life. And I'm just going to say it. I literally cannot with any of this bullshit with her. I literally cannot with this. The Instagram post while McKenzie is in the hospital days after the accident with her and her mom responding to a modeling agency in L.A.

Are they out of their minds? I mean, maybe, but I think we know now where McKenzie may have learned some of her behavior, which no shade, but just saying. McKenzie's mother also gave a statement before sentencing. And honestly, when I was watching this, I could not believe it. I contemplated if I wanted to include

“the whole thing, but I think it really is important because it gives so much insight into what”

all of these claims about who McKenzie is and how she acts were really about. Can you start with your name? I just want to see my lunch because I just want to say to the fair, please. I just want to say to the fair, please. I just want to say to the fair, please.

I just want to say to the fair, please. I just want to say to the fair, please. And then, your honor of this was a terrible tragic nightmare accident, you had to have for this, she doesn't know how to handle it.

And she will never emotionally or physically recover from it.

She'll all study too. And we're asking each and please, now I'm going to send you a sense of executive who's failing all of the official it. That morning of the accident, she called. I got a phone call that she was a car accident.

And so went to the hospital. And I didn't even know when it's in the car. It's been a long time.

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“I've called down like over and over again,”

the friend who is going to answer the phone.

And he didn't answer the phone. So then I tried to call his mom and she didn't answer the phone either. And I still didn't know when she was in the car. I didn't even know she was alive. And I didn't know what was happening.

So we were in the waiting room. And then my friend, the pink she did call me. So he had some phone. And I was like, oh my god. I don't even know who was at the car.

What's happening? What do you mean? My son is dead. And I was like, I'm so sorry. And then she said something.

And now I have to wait to vacate back to the hospital. And then I didn't hear the rest. I just, I was like, we've left him so much. I went up the phone. I didn't have to talk about social media.

I didn't know what was going on. Okay. And there was it. It was not possible.

Then the telling me folks, I commented on that.

Because somebody could call her a murderer. Okay. She went. She's not. She would have her phone.

And at that point, is the police. I've still had it. Okay. So I jumped on.

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And in a way it's a second time their families are gathered again to grieve.

It's also a day when Mackenzie's family will grieve for the future of their daughter. All three of these families and the friends of these families are suffering. And all of their lives have been irrevocably changed because of the actions of the defendant. The unintended and collateral consequences of a selfish intentional and cruel decision. By Mackenzie will ripple forever in time.

It's literally changed history because it's ended to lives. Two young men are dead, their deaths were horrible, terrifying and tragic. I will say again, if any reasonable person reviews exhibit 802, there could be no doubt in your mind what happened this night. There could be no doubt of the absolute terror of the two people in that car. The defendant controlled all the events she chose the day.

Specifically, she chose a day just before her 18th birthday. She chose to drive a car, the time to drive a car. She chose them to scare her previously scouted route through an industrial parkway. She chose the target to hit in the victims. She chose the means and the method to follow through.

And she planned and purposely executed the events of July 31, 2022.

We review the evidence supports of factual findings, the forensic testimony, the testimony of the first responders.

The testimony of the coroner's medical examiner, the testimony of those who knew the victims and the defendant,

and the testimony of the BMV official who provided evidence that not only did the defendant deny any medical condition when applying for her license, which her mother co-signed and attested to, but also the just after the accident McKenzie renewed her driver's license and again denied any medical condition. In fact, the defendant was so concerned about driving that, as the state mentioned, during the investigation, she asked if they could just suspend her license for 10 years. It is hard to fathom. All person could be concerned about their driving privileges, having just been responsible for the deaths of two people.

There was no medical condition that caused this as an accident. There was no mechanical failure of the car.

The record is clear on the facts and the evidence.

Her mother's own corroborated statements without any medical testimony or records is not persuasive.

“There's also important to remember that even if McKenzie intended to also die in this crash that is irrelevant, a failed suicide attempt is not a defense to murder.”

And even in a murder suicide attempt when a perpetrator executing the plan survives, the other death or death is still murder. There's only one person who's responsible for the pain of everyone in this room and that person who's human can see. Nobody else is responsible. This isn't the fault of Dominic's family or Daveyons family or your family. And I know that each of you have asked your questions to yourselves, what if, what if I had done this or that?

The truth of it is none of us can control the intentions of another. And when there is a purposeful intent to harm or kill someone, it is the perpetrator alone who bears the responsibility for the choice and the consequences. And the harm the followers.

“The difficulty for sentencing today, honestly, is whether or not I believe you should get consecutive sentences.”

I'm troubled that should I give you a concurrent sentence that people will believe at somehow I'm being disrespectful to one of the victims. And on the other hand, I have to weigh the punishment. There's a very good likelihood McKenzie that you will spend the rest of your life in prison. That won't be up to me. That will be up to the parole board.

And that will be up to you to a great extent.

McKenzie was sentenced 15 years to life, meaning she will be at least 34 years old during the first time that she is eligible for parole.

And unless McKenzie shows true change takes accountability for her actions or does some serious self reflection to realize the devastation that she caused to her victims families, she will be lucky if she gets out the first time she's up for parole. So that now leads us into some major updates in this case. After her trial, McKenzie got a new legal team and they were doing everything in their power to prove that McKenzie was innocent. They claimed that she had a medical episode that occurred at or around the time of the car accident, what they're calling the incident.

And they're saying that that medical episode caused her to ultimately lose consciousness, which then resulted in the crash. They also claimed that key evidence in the case had been missed during her trial. Evidence that they say proved that Dominic was actually the one threatening McKenzie and not the other way around. Now this proof that they had it was text messages from McKenzie's phone and one of the text messages is from July 17, 2022. It was sent at 1245 pm.

“So just afternoon and it said, "Can you come get Dom?”

He just grabbed my steering wheel on the highway trying to spin out my car and hurt me." And quote, "Then that same day, just a few hours later at 427 pm, Dom texted McKenzie saying, "I'm sorry." To which she responded, "That is not enough to fix it this time." So with these messages, her new legal team is saying, "Nin and I'll look." He is the one who put her life at risk in the past. He is the one who would antagonize her.

We have a history here. We have a pattern which, to be honest, I think there was probably toxicity in both directions in this relationship. In October of 2024, McKenzie's defense team then filed its post-conviction relief petition. Otherwise known as a PCR, and in this, they requested a new trial. But get this. You can't just file those things whenever you and your defense team are, you know, feeling up to it. It's something that has to be done in a timely manner.

So, Judge Nancy Margaret Russo, the same judge who found her guilty during her trial, denied this petition. Which, look, I can understand the frustration with that. Technically, yes, you got to follow the rules. If it's mandated by state law, there's a deadline. I also can see the argument where people will say, "It was only one day late, like, you know, don't be so rigid, let it go in, all of these things."

“But then, I think when you do that, you have to make allowances for two days late.”

I don't know. So, I understand the frustration here, but I also understand why the decision was made. So, then, McKenzie's parents broke their silence. Now, up until this point, they were not doing interviews or any public appearances whatsoever.

Now, why they finally decided to, who really knows, maybe it was a homeary, maybe it was trying to humanize the situation.

It's really unclear. And I want to play some of it for you. Because if nothing else, I feel like it's fair to say, this family sure has the audacity. Okay? Now, again, if you are listening to the audio version of this, it will be clear, but there will be captions and video on the YouTube version. I struggle with this because how can I feel bad that these two boys died and feel grief with these families and then be absolutely overjoyed. So, like it is alive, show me one piece of evidence, one that says she did this on purpose.

Show it to me. Here it is. That's it. Then she's right where she belongs and she's guilty of it, but there isn't any. There's no evidence what was going on in that car, other than the information they blamed from the black box information. And these poor families think she did it intentionally and she didn't, and there's like, and they don't know if there's information they didn't see. There's information they didn't have, there's information we didn't see or have. Should she be imprisoned for murder?

No, absolutely not.

Should she be imprisoned for aggravated vehicular homicide?

I don't even know why they don't. I don't know about the aggravated perks. I don't think you can still say why I was going on the car. Should she be, should she have been charged with reckless vehicular homicide to counts? Absolutely. Absolutely. If it was medical, what kind of hopes, what kind of expectations do you have for McKenzie's future?

“That the truth set her free. That's what I need to have happened.”

The truth that there was no intent, that part, the truth will set her free. So when I first saw this interview, my jaw was on the floor. Honestly, I don't even really know why. I mean, McKenzie's mom had proved to us before that she just rambles and makes excuses for her daughter. So I don't know why I expected her to change or for there to be a different tone to this conversation or what,

but it did somehow still surprise me. And I think if I were McKenzie, I'm just, you know, putting myself in her shoes for a moment. I'd be telling my mom, you know, zip it, stop talking, go into hiding. I don't need you speaking on my behalf anymore, because at this point, if she keeps it up, she may ruin any chance of McKenzie ever getting out on parole.

And while we're on the topic of the whole Shorilla family, we also have to go over another thing.

I never had too much hope that McKenzie would show actual remorse.

I think she's entitled, I think she thinks that the rules don't apply to her, and I just never expected to see genuine remorse from her. Because to me, McKenzie has already proved that she has always seen herself as the victim, and that she probably always will think that way. And in the summer of 2025, there were some jail calls between McKenzie and her mother that were released.

One of the calls was from August of 2023, and it was about a court hearing that McKenzie had been through. And instead of just describing this call to you, I'm going to play you some clips again because I feel like it is much better hearing things through their mouths, and how they deliver the statements. So take a listen. How do you think I did okay?

Yeah, that prosecutor was pissing me off, so I don't know what he's like. I was getting so pissed off, like I wanted to get up and be like shut the fuck up, and like tell him to sit like so bad. He was pissing me off. He was suffering from anything. We got nothing behind. He could ask me anything you want.

Like, what are bread and cookies? Yeah. Yeah, I'm excited to see how that you please have somebody who did that work for you. So no, I'm going to. I should have just irritating his book.

Yeah.

“I don't like how I can't come out of my room. Why the fuck am I on a seven day hold?”

That just pisses me off. It's just part of the procedure. There's nothing you can do about that. And I'm so scared about like to get me and I lost the love of my life and a good friend, and now I have to see what this grief the rest of my life and deal with. Being scared to drive and stuff, like, that's just like,

I don't know. I know, honey, there's nothing I can do about that. Can you just pay my volume to get me out of here, please? Like, go to a failed bondsman and see if I can take the time for that. Oh, why aren't you listening?

I'm going to hang-- I am listening. It's just taking us somebody. I don't mean you were talking.

Okay, so can we just wait until Monday? Okay? Yeah, let's just wait until Monday and when I can just probably-- I'm probably going to take my bond away at Monday. That's what I mean. It's just wait.

What do you mean that's what you mean? They're probably going to say there's no one on Monday. No, we don't know what that's true or not. I don't know if the situation is fucked up. I'm just going to wait.

“This is just wrong. What the fuck is there to do with it?”

It's so wrong, and they're just trying to use it. I know. Yes, I'm getting very irritated. Like, and I need to get the fuck out of jail. 'Cause they're just trying to fuck me over a bad luck.

Mackenzie also brought up her medical condition, claiming that it had now gotten worse ever since being in jail, and that now she was having even worse episodes than she ever had before. First of all, when I got a diagnosis,

nobody ever told me that could, anything about drugs. Exactly. No one ever said. Nope.

If we do have to, then we will. Yeah, I don't care. Why would we lie and just not do that? I thought if I knew that, I could affect my driving.

I probably would never drive.

No, people are allowed to drive with that, but don't say that. Ever since I got in here, it's been bad again. It was so weird. It was like not normal. It wasn't like bad how it usually is,

but it was also like not like good. I'm not explaining. It was like the first time I ever had a blackout like that. It was like weird as fuck. I don't know how to explain it.

Well, just make sure you're eating. Okay. When you get to come, if you can do your kind of thing, make sure you get some chips. Now, like I said, those calls were back in 2023.

So who really knows whether she was exaggerating those blackouts, exaggerating the symptoms, just trying to look better for her trial. Who knows? But it does seem to me, at least, like she still is standing by the idea

that she had some sort of medical condition. And I'm really curious to know what you think about that, though,

because when this case first exploded,

“it felt like, honestly, the overwhelming majority of people”

believed that McKenzie was guilty. That this was intentional entitlement, audacity. All those words, right? No question. But now, with some of these text messages coming out,

and McKenzie and her medical condition claims, do you feel the same? Do you feel like there's room for, you know, questioning that and that maybe it's not as black and white as people thought? Do you think that those text messages are enough

to potentially change the outcome of this case? And do you believe that there's a world in which some other scenario occurred? And that's what caused the crash. That it wasn't McKenzie's doing.

Whether it was one of the passengers grabbing the wheel or some sort of genuine medical episode that triggered it? I don't know. Let me know in the comments. Like I said at the beginning of this episode,

I still firmly believe what I believe about this case. Yes, I don't think that those text messages are great, but again, I think it just shows toxicity from both sides. I still think that even if it wasn't medical episode, I would imagine that there would be a level of remorse.

Even if when I've gotten into a car crash in the past, and if I had someone in the car and I just rear end somebody, you're remorseful, even if it's an accident, you know? And so even if it was this thing that she had no control over, where's the remorse?

And the accountability with that to say, like, I'm devastated. I can't believe this happened. Did it, like, my illness, I need help. I don't know.

It's just not quite landing for me. But maybe I'm rigid in my views. Who the hell knows? So curious to know what you guys think about this case. Maybe I will also throw a poll up on Spotify,

just so that we can gauge what everybody's thinking. But take a quick second. If you're watching this on YouTube, leave a comment that says, I think this was intentional,

or I think this was an accident. And we can gauge the responses. And for all of my podcast listeners, if you're listening to this on Spotify, you can vote on the poll.

But if you're listening on Apple, leave a review for the podcast, and let me know in the section where you can write a review. Let me know what you think about this case. So thank you so much for listening.

Let me know too. If you watched the Netflix documentary, The Crash, and what your thoughts are now after seeing that as well.

But I always like to come on here and cover some of the documentaries that I'm familiar with.

Already with the case that Netflix covers, because there's only so much information. You can squeeze into 90 minutes, or even like 345 minute episodes. And I feel like sometimes a lot of the minutiae,

you know, the details get lost within it.

“And so that's why I'm here to give you the deep dives.”

If you all of the information that maybe isn't shown, because it can't be squeezed into a 60 minute episode. So again, if you're brand new, and this is the first episode of my new herd, and you appreciate the case coverage,

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“Thank you again for tuning in today and until the next one.”

Nice, don't kill people, just be a good human,

and drive the speed limit.

All right, thank you. Bye.