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Published 10:18 04 Jun 2026 GMT
More has been revealed about Mackenzie Shirilla's time behind bars, following the success of the Netflix documentary about her murder case, titled The Crash.
The true crime doc covers the deaths of Dominic Russo, 20, and Davion Flanagan, 18, who were both passengers in a car that crashed into a brick wall at over 100 mph (160 km/h) in July 2022.
While some details have been omitted from the doc, it's known that Mackenzie Shirilla, 17 at the time, was the driver.
First responders found her wedged between the seat and door, with the two other passengers pronounced dead at the scene.
The trio was heading back from a party when they crashed in the early hours of the morning.
Mackenzie would be found guilty of killing the two men in 2023, as toxicology tests ruled out drug and alcohol impairment.
The judge determined her actions to be a premeditated murder, and Mackenzie was convicted of 12 felony charges and sentenced to two concurrent life sentences, with the possibility of parole in 2037.
Anastasia, 30, a former inmate who spent time with Mackenzie at the Ohio Reformatory for Women, told the Daily Mail that she was left disturbed after encountering the now-21-year-old.
Despite the convict claiming that the tragedy was an accident, and she doesn't recall the events leading up to it as she "passed out," Anastasia claimed Mackenzie was telling a different story behind bars.
The former inmate said that she claimed to crash the car on purpose as "Dom had to die," as the 27-year-old alleged: "She said she was suicidal, but she almost looked as though she was enjoying (telling the story) - like she was amused by it."
Anastasia also claimed that Mackenzie was a common user of K2, a synthetic drug that is made from smoking paper that has been sprayed with chemicals.
Chillingly, she claims to remember Mackenzie trying to blame Satan for her actions, alleging: "She said the devil made her do it,
"She said the devil was pressing on her foot... She wanted to make it sound like she was a little devil girl, and that this is what she intended to do. Like there was a reason that Dom had to die."
Anastasia told the publication that many prisoners kept a scrapbook for their time behind bars, which was usually filled with photos of loved ones and family members.
However, she claimed that Mackenzie's scrapbook only contained photos of herself, and the picture of a brick wall with the word "BOOM" on it, in a joke about the crash.
"She didn't have any pictures of Dom or Davion, I felt like that was cold," Anastasia stated.
Her behavior would leave her inmates shocked, according to the former prisoner, who said that cellmate Jalisa Roberts also couldn't believe her behavior, and she was convicted of murdering a man when she was 16.
While Mackenzie claims to suffer from Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS), they had "never heard of that."
Anastasia stated: "I never saw her pass out," which contrasts with what Mackenzie claimed in the Netflix doc.
