The Night Of “The Crash” - What Truly Happened Based On the 90GB Police Evidence

**Stephanie Soo** (0:00)
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July 11th, 2022, 17-year-old Mackenzie Shirilla posts an Instagram photo and texts one of her friends named Rosie. So Mackenzie is texting her friend Rosie, I am Gia already liked. I am Gia being the clothing brand, aka this huge clothing brand likes her Instagram picture. Rosie responds, Oh my God, yes, we're so famous.
Mackenzie says, Bro, we're going to be famous as fuck soon, before this year ends.
This is from July 11th, 2022, just 20 days before the crash, where Mackenzie drove her car into a brick building at nearly 100 miles per hour speeds, killing her boyfriend Dom in the front passenger seat and her friend Davion in the back seat. This case has since gone viral again with the release of the new Netflix documentary called The Crash, where both Mackenzie and her friend Rosie had given interviews to the documentary makers, and they do in fact become famous together.
Rosie becoming one of the more hated controversial individuals from the Netflix documentary, with people coming up with theories online that she knew ahead of time that Mackenzie was planning this crash, that she drove by the crash site and didn't call the police that morning, that she was interested in Dom, like there are such a wide range of theories that have been circulating, theories upon theories about whether or not Rosie and Mackenzie are doing some sort of big cover up, and just a lot of questions. Like why did Rosie refuse to talk to the police, but then she went ahead and did a Netflix documentary? A lot of those questions are going to be answered today. Our researchers reached out to Rosie and Bubba, who was also featured in the Netflix documentary. Bubba was Davion's close friend as well as Rosie's boyfriend. And we asked all of those pertinent questions. But more importantly, we also asked, what actually happened that night? They were one of the last few people to see Dom and Davion alive for the last time. And they answered all of our questions. So with that, welcome to part two of the Mackenzie Shirilla case.
We would like to thank today's sponsors, who have made it possible for Rotten Mango to support Change the Game for Dom Foundation and Davion Flanagan's Memorial Scholarship Fund. Both GoFundMe's are run by the families of the victims, and we're gonna include all of those, plus all the information regarding Dom and Davion's law, which aims to update Ohio's Son of Sam laws in order to prevent violent offenders from profiting off their crimes. All of that is going to be included in our show notes. This episode's partnerships have also made it possible to support Rotten Mango's team of dedicated researchers. We'd also like to thank you guys for your continued support. As always, full show notes are available at rottenmangopodcast.com. Today's episode involves mentions of illicit drug usage, reckless driving, driving while intoxicated, self-exit, and possible domestic violence. We did pull the FOIA for this case and literally went through tens of thousands of pages of text messages, just detective incident reports, autopsy reports, photos, videos, Snapchat data, Instagram DM data, text messages, like tens of thousands of pages of text messages. So naturally, quotes and statements may be condensed for brevity. There is also a lot of discourse surrounding this case, and in order to explain the entirety of the case and the internet reception of things that have been released to the public, we are going to go over a lot of opinions, comments, and speculations made by netizens. They do not represent our own opinions. So with that being said, I will say that this case has gained a lot of attention with the Netflix documentary, The Crash, and we went through the entire case file. So this is going to be a pretty lengthy series. The Netflix documentary was about an hour and a half, and we've gone through, I mean, I don't even, it's like 5,000 videos, 5,000 separate photos, tens of thousands of pages of text messages, 97 jail calls totaling up to like 20 hours, hundreds of pages of police documents, 39 body cam and dash cam videos. We went through it all, and we're going to break it all down. This is going to be a five part series. In the first part, please go watch that first, the previous episode. We went over The Crash itself, as well as the relationships of everybody in the car, the relationship dynamic, and generally what people believe happened that night. In this part, we're gonna be breaking down the Netflix documentary, the social media response, as well as what we asked Rosie and Bubba and what they've responded and all of the things that happened. It was like a two hour long conversation asking them pretty much every single question that the internet had for them. In part three, we're gonna be breaking down the main relationships within the Shirilla family. There's been a lot of allegations and rumors and just conspiracy theories circulating online that Mackenzie had a very strange relationship with her dad, where she would text him in the middle of the night asking for warm milk, and people think warm milk is a code for something else, and there's just a lot to unpack there. That's gonna be part three. In part four, it's going to be the entire breakdown, the journey of Mackenzie and Dom's relationship through their text messages from 2020 and then leading up to the crash. And part five will be all the jail calls as well as Mackenzie's prison girlfriends who have come out on TikTok to talk about what their experience was like dating Mackenzie in prison, and she would call herself, allegedly. She said that people called her Shirilla the killer, so with that being said, let's get started.