Mackenzie Shirilla: 'Hell on Wheels' The Trial, The Verdict & What Dom Knew -Pt. 2
This Feels Criminal: A True Crime Podcast (Formerly Killer Queens)
This Feels Criminal | Formerly Killer Queens
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🗓️ 28 May 2026
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Two weeks before the crash, Dom Russo was secretly recording her. Days before he died, he used a friend's phone to do it — which tells you everything about where things were.
In Part 2, Tyrella and Nikita pick up where the evidence gets undeniable: the secret recordings Dom made of Mackenzie in the days before his death, the highway incident two weeks prior where a witness heard her say "I will crash this car right now," the arrest, and the trial that ended with a judge calling Mackenzie Shirilla "literal hell on wheels."
They also cover what the Netflix documentary left out — the full picture of a relationship Dom was actively trying to leave, a plea offer the families rejected, a defense with no medical documentation to back it up, and a sentencing hearing that left Davion Flanagan's family stunned by the concurrent sentences.
Dom Russo was 20. Davion Flanagan was 19. This is Part 2. Part 1 is live now.
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| 0:00.0 | On July 31st, 2022 in Strongsville, Ohio, a car is going 100 miles an hour, no breaking. |
| 0:10.0 | Dom and Davion are now dead. |
| 0:12.8 | We found out the car didn't fail. |
| 0:14.8 | Kenzie says she doesn't remember anything. |
| 0:17.9 | And the question is no longer what happened. |
| 0:19.9 | Okay. |
| 0:20.1 | Now it is why. And the answer is in |
| 0:22.9 | years of text messages, secret audio recordings that Dom made of her days before the crash and an |
| 0:29.4 | incident on a highway two weeks earlier that Dom's mom says she'll never forget. I'm Nikita. |
| 0:37.3 | And I'm Terella. Welcome to This Feels Criminal. |
| 0:43.8 | Did you ever hear a story and think, we're not getting the full picture? That's where we start. |
| 0:49.5 | On this feels criminal, we unpack crime, corruption, and conspiracy with curiosity, context, and just a touch |
| 0:56.3 | of chaos. We step outside the timelines and ask better questions and explore the systems behind |
| 1:01.7 | the story, all in a voice that feels more like a friend than a reporter, because when you identify |
| 1:06.2 | the patterns, you can't unsee how often they show up. |
| 1:15.5 | This week we are back talking about the crash documentary on Netflix. |
| 1:20.9 | This is part two, so if you miss part one, go ahead and pause here and check that out. |
| 1:25.9 | And if you've already heard part one, then let's just go ahead and jump on into it because we still have a lot more to rage about in this episode. |
| 1:31.4 | At this point, we start to get more information about their relationship. |
| 1:34.9 | Because remember, according to her parents, they were super happy, everything was happy. |
| 1:39.6 | Even Dom's family thought that their relationship was really good. |
| 1:43.3 | So they had started dating when she was 13 and he was 16. |
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