Strongsville Police Release 2022 Shirilla Crash Records as Netflix Documentary Revives 2-Death Case
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Updated · Cleveland 19 News · May 27
Strongsville Police Release 2022 Shirilla Crash Records as Netflix Documentary Revives 2-Death Case
9 articles · Updated · Cleveland 19 News · May 27
Strongsville police released case files from Mackenzie Shirilla’s 2022 crash, including phone calls with her mother, texts with Dominic Russo, body-camera video and interviews with relatives and friends.
The disclosure followed renewed attention after Netflix released “The Crash” on May 15, bringing Shirilla’s account to a wider audience for the first time since her conviction.
100 mph is the speed investigators said Shirilla reached before hitting a brick wall in July 2022, killing Russo and Davion Flanagan while she survived.
Life in prison with parole eligibility after 15 years was the sentence imposed after a Cuyahoga County judge found Shirilla guilty on all counts in the double-fatal crash.
The case had long turned on intent: it was first treated as an accident, but investigators later cited interviews and early forensic findings to argue the crash was deliberate.
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