"Driving Like a Maniac": Newly Released Texts Reveal Volatile History Before Mackenzie Shirilla’s Fatal Crash
The FOX True Crime Podcast
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4.7 • 826 Ratings
🗓️ 29 May 2026
⏱️ 2 minutes
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| 0:26.8 | Get started at vanta.com slash calm. I'm Gianja Jalosi with your Fox True Crime Minute. Newly released records in a high-profile |
| 0:35.0 | crash are revealing thousands of text messages and recorded jail calls involving convicted driver McKenzie Shirilla. |
| 0:42.0 | Public interest is high in the 2022 double fatal crash after a recent Netflix documentary. |
| 0:46.8 | The Strongsville Police Department released around 32,000 texts between Shirilla and her then boyfriend, Dominic Russo, along with recorded jail phone calls. |
| 0:54.2 | The text from 2020 to 2022 show repeated arguments between the pair, including allegations of cheating, |
| 0:59.5 | blackmail, reckless driving, and anger issues. |
| 1:02.1 | In one text, in March of 2022, Russo warned her that she was, quote, |
| 1:05.8 | driving like a maniac. |
| 1:07.1 | Cirilla was convicted in the July of 2022 crash that killed Russo and their friend Davian Flanagan. |
| 1:11.9 | When she slammed her car into a brick wall at around 100 miles an hour, she was sentenced to life in prison with parole eligibility after 15 years. |
| 1:18.8 | Cirilla has maintained it was all a tragic accident and she experienced a medical emergency behind the wheel. |
| 1:23.7 | There's more on this story at Fox News.com or subscribe to the Fox True Crime podcast. |
| 1:27.5 | I'm Gianna Jalosi with your Fox True Crime Minute. |
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