{"podcast":{"title":"Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary","slug":"hidden-killers-with-tony-brueski-true-crime-news-commentary-5840426","podcast_index_feed_id":5840426,"rss_url":"https://audioboom.com/channels/5040505.rss","website_url":"https://audioboom.com/channels/5040505","image_url":"https://audioboom.com/i/43617911.jpg","author":"True Crime Today","episode_count":500,"summary":"🔎 Daily True Crime Podcast | Criminal Psychology | Ongoing Trials | Expert Analysis Multiple new episodes every day! Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski is your ultimate daily true crime podcast , bringing you real-time updates on criminal investigations, high-profile trials, forensic breakthroughs, and psychological deep dives into the minds of killers. 🎙️ Hosted by veteran journalist Tony Brueski , we go beyond the headlines , featuring exclusive insights from FBI agents, forensic experts, criminal psychologists, and legal analysts. Whether it's the latest developments in cases like Bryan Kohberger and Lori Vallow or deep dives into cold cases and unsolved mysteries , we uncover the hidden truths behind the crimes that captivate the world. If you’re obsessed with true crime, forensic psychology, and legal drama , subscribe now to Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski on Apple Podcasts. 🎧 New episodes multiple times a day—stay ahead of the latest crime stories. Join our SubStack: https://HiddenKillers.SubStack.com 📺Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspod 📷Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillersp…","last_synced_at":"2026-07-18T10:21:06.423335+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/hidden-killers-with-tony-brueski-true-crime-news-commentary-5840426"},"episode":{"title":"How Did Mackenzie Shirilla Get 36 Prison Violations and Still Think She Doesn’t Belong There?","slug":"how-did-mackenzie-shirilla-get-36-prison-violations-and-still-think-she-doesn-t-belong-there","published_at":"2026-06-06T01:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/hidden-killers-with-tony-brueski-true-crime-news-commentary-5840426/how-did-mackenzie-shirilla-get-36-prison-violations-and-still-think-she-doesn-t-belong-there","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/hidden-killers-with-tony-brueski-true-crime-news-commentary-5840426","url":"https://audioboom.com/posts/8912441","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/audioboom.com/posts/8912441.mp3?modified=1780600602&sid=5040505&source=rss","summary":"Mackenzie Shirilla has been found guilty of thirty-two out of thirty-six conduct violations inside the Ohio Reformatory for Women — and in every phone call home, she still insists she had a car accident. The record starts quiet. Months without a single citation after arriving in August 2023. Then a steady escalation: unauthorized medication belonging to another inmate, photographs depicting drug use, repeated alterations to prison-issued clothing, concealed contraband, disturbances, violations of video visit rules involving seven flagged calls with a single visitor, and most recently, a flat refusal to carry out a work assignment. A former inmate who served alongside Mackenzie described her as someone who showed no remorse and compared her to the character Regina George — daily makeup, social positioning, as if the facility were a high school cafeteria with a longer dress code. But the violations are only half the picture. Recorded phone calls between Mackenzie and her parents reveal a family locked in a shared delusion. Mackenzie tells her mother Natalie that she does not need to be rehabilitated. Natalie agrees, saying rehabilitation is for “actual criminals.” Mackenzie calls herself the third person harmed by the crash. Natalie calls the family of the young man her daughter killed “evil.” Steve Shirilla, now on leave from his teaching job, argues publicly that his daughter is innocent — while a judge’s finding that her actions were deliberate and purposeful sits unchallenged in the court record. During the trial, prosecutors decoded calls in which Mackenzie and Natalie communicated in a private language, and in one of those decoded calls, Mackenzie allegedly asked her mother whether they could tell police she had a seizure. Tony Brueski examines the violations, the…","meta_description":"Mackenzie Shirilla has been found guilty of thirty-two out of thirty-six conduct violations inside the Ohio Reformatory for Women — and in every phone cal…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2228,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/hidden-killers-with-tony-brueski-true-crime-news-commentary-5840426/episodes/how-did-mackenzie-shirilla-get-36-prison-violations-and-still-think-she-doesn-t-belong-there/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/hidden-killers-with-tony-brueski-true-crime-news-commentary-5840426/how-did-mackenzie-shirilla-get-36-prison-violations-and-still-think-she-doesn-t-belong-there.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}