Mackenzie Shirilla: She Threatened It Two Weeks Before- Pt. 1
This Feels Criminal: A True Crime Podcast (Formerly Killer Queens)
This Feels Criminal | Formerly Killer Queens
4.4 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 26 May 2026
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Two weeks before the crash, a witness heard Mackenzie Shirilla say "I will crash this car right now." On July 31, 2022, she did — at over 100 mph, into a brick building, killing her boyfriend Dominic Russo and his friend Davion Flanagan. Netflix released a documentary called The Crash. It covered the case. It did not cover everything. In Part 1, Tyrella and Nikita walk through the victims' backgrounds, the four-year relationship between Mackenzie and Dom, and the evidence of coercive control, prior threats, and dangerous driving that the documentary largely glossed over.You'll hear about the secret recordings Dom made before his death, the highway incident two weeks before the crash, and what prosecutors called 'prior calculation.' It's a lot — in the best and worst way.
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| 0:00.0 | 5.34 a.m. July 31st, 22, Strongsville, Ohio. It's a quiet, peaceful suburb outside of Cleveland. |
| 0:08.9 | A CCTV camera on Pearl Road catches a silver 2018 Toyota Camry, making a careful signal on right turn onto progress drive. |
| 0:19.2 | 60 seconds later, a second camera catches that same car at the end |
| 0:23.4 | of that street doing over 100 miles per hour, no braking, no swerving, it flies across a lawn, |
| 0:30.6 | destroys a sign, and then explodes into the corner of a brick building called the Plidco building. |
| 0:36.3 | The impact is so severe that it splits the car |
| 0:40.2 | nearly into. A passerby calls 911 and when the first responders arrive, one officer radios in. |
| 0:47.6 | This car is split into and another one says this is the worst crash I've ever seen. Now, |
| 0:53.7 | three young people are inside. Two of them are |
| 0:56.1 | dead. The third, the girl behind the wheel is still breathing and her foot is still on the gas. |
| 1:02.9 | I'm Nikita. And I'm Terrella. Welcome to This Feels Criminal. Did you ever hear a story and think, we're not getting the full picture? |
| 1:14.3 | That's where we start. |
| 1:15.9 | On this feels criminal, we unpack crime, corruption, and conspiracy with curiosity, context, and just a touch of chaos. |
| 1:23.5 | We step outside the timelines and ask better questions and explore the systems behind the story, |
| 1:28.7 | all in a voice that feels more like a friend than a reporter. |
| 1:31.5 | Because when you identify the patterns, you can't unsee how often they show up. |
| 1:39.3 | This week we are talking about the crash documentary that is on Netflix right now. |
| 1:44.1 | And we'll recap it |
| 1:45.4 | for you, but we're also going to tell you what they left out. So this is part one. But if you |
| 1:51.6 | are a patron, part two is ready and waiting for you to just roll on into right now. But if you'd |
| 1:56.9 | rather wait, that's okay because part two is going to drop for you on Thursday. |
| 2:08.6 | But let's go ahead and jump into this one because we have a lot to rage about in this episode. |
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