{"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":"The Crash: Is Mackenzie Shirilla a Calculated Killer or a Broken Teenager?","slug":"the-crash-is-mackenzie-shirilla-a-calculated-killer-or-a-broken-teenager","published_at":"2026-06-04T11:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/hidden-killers-with-tony-brueski-true-crime-news-commentary-5840426/the-crash-is-mackenzie-shirilla-a-calculated-killer-or-a-broken-teenager","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/hidden-killers-with-tony-brueski-true-crime-news-commentary-5840426","url":"https://audioboom.com/posts/8911498","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/audioboom.com/posts/8911498.mp3?modified=1780510236&sid=5040505&source=rss","summary":"The text messages Mackenzie Shirilla sent Dominic Russo were controlling, threatening, and ugly. The TikTok persona was image-obsessed. The arrest behavior was bizarre. Everything about her personality fed a narrative that she was cold enough to plan a murder at seventeen. A judge agreed. But a psychotherapist who has treated both victims and perpetrators of violence for over thirty years reads the same evidence and sees a completely different clinical picture. Shirilla was convicted of four counts of murder for the Strongsville, Ohio crash that killed Dominic Russo and Davion Flanagan. Netflix's The Crash has reignited the debate over whether this was premeditated or something else entirely. But the psychological dimension — the question of what's actually happening inside someone who behaves the way Mackenzie did — barely gets examined. Shavaun Scott, author of The Minds of Mass Killers, brings three decades of clinical experience to the personality profile that convicted Mackenzie Shirilla. The narcissism the public sees as proof of coldness? Clinically, it almost always signals the opposite — someone with no stable sense of self, terrified of abandonment, constructing an identity out of image because there's nothing solid underneath. The ultimatums and threats? Driven by desperation, not calculation. The volatility? Possibly personality disorder, possibly a teenage brain that hasn't finished developing. The distinction between those two things matters enormously — and the trial never explored it. This conversation goes where the documentary and the courtroom didn't — inside the clinical reality of who Mackenzie Shirilla actually is, not who the prosecution needed her to be. Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack…","meta_description":"The text messages Mackenzie Shirilla sent Dominic Russo were controlling, threatening, and ugly. The TikTok persona was image-obsessed. 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