{"podcast":{"title":"True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & Interviews","slug":"true-crime-today-daily-true-crime-news-interviews-568948","podcast_index_feed_id":568948,"rss_url":"https://audioboom.com/channels/5001260.rss","website_url":"https://audioboom.com/channels/5001260","image_url":"https://audioboom.com/i/42359005.jpg","author":"Tony Brueski","episode_count":500,"summary":"🔎 Daily True Crime Stories | Unsolved Mysteries | Criminal Investigations | Cold Cases True Crime Today is your go-to daily true crime podcast , bringing you the latest murder cases, ongoing trials, criminal psychology insights, and shocking unsolved mysteries . Whether it’s breaking crime news, high-profile trials, serial killers, missing persons, or cold cases , we cover it all with expert analysis, investigative storytelling, and real-time updates . 🎙️ Hosted by leading crime analysts , we uncover the psychology of killers, forensic breakthroughs, police investigations, and courtroom drama —giving you the full story behind the headlines . From notorious cases to little-known crimes that deserve attention , we break down what really happened and why . If you're obsessed with true crime podcasts , criminal psychology, and investigative reporting, subscribe to True Crime Today on Apple Podcasts now! 🎧 New episodes daily.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-29T12:17:47.477723+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/true-crime-today-daily-true-crime-news-interviews-568948"},"episode":{"title":"Does The Clinical Evidence Support Mackenzie Shirilla's Dissociative Amnesia Claim?","slug":"does-the-clinical-evidence-support-mackenzie-shirilla-s-dissociative-amnesia-claim","published_at":"2026-06-07T19:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/true-crime-today-daily-true-crime-news-interviews-568948/does-the-clinical-evidence-support-mackenzie-shirilla-s-dissociative-amnesia-claim","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/true-crime-today-daily-true-crime-news-interviews-568948","url":"https://audioboom.com/posts/8912911","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/audioboom.com/posts/8912911.mp3?modified=1780671050&sid=5001260&source=rss","summary":"Mackenzie Shirilla has consistently maintained she has no memory of the Strongsville crash that killed Dominic Russo and Davion Flanagan. The prosecution rejected the claim. The victims' families dispute it. A fellow inmate provided a characterization of Shirilla's behavior in custody that contradicts her on-camera presentation in Netflix's The Crash. The public discourse has largely treated the memory claim as fabrication. Shavaun Scott — licensed psychotherapist, author of The Minds of Mass Killers, with more than thirty years of experience in forensic mental health, domestic violence shelters, and crisis intervention — provides the clinical framework the trial never heard. Dissociative amnesia is a documented clinical phenomenon with established diagnostic criteria. Trauma-induced memory loss presents with characteristics consistent with what Shirilla describes. Scott examines whether genuine dissociative amnesia can be distinguished from deliberate suppression, what the medical evidence in this case suggests about the defendant's neurological state at the moment of impact, and whether the clinical presentation is consistent with fabrication or with authentic trauma response. She also addresses the grief psychology operating on the victims' families — the mechanism by which loss drives certainty beyond what the evidence supports — and the possibility that premeditated murder may not accurately characterize what occurred. The relationship dynamics that preceded the crash received prosecutorial framing but no clinical analysis at trial. The relationship between Shirilla and Russo featured a documented cycle of separation and reconciliation, mutual escalation, and conflicting accounts of violent incidents. The I-71 episode is illustrative: prosecution testimony attribu…","meta_description":"Mackenzie Shirilla has consistently maintained she has no memory of the Strongsville crash that killed Dominic Russo and Davion Flanagan. The prosecution…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2278,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/true-crime-today-daily-true-crime-news-interviews-568948/episodes/does-the-clinical-evidence-support-mackenzie-shirilla-s-dissociative-amnesia-claim/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/true-crime-today-daily-true-crime-news-interviews-568948/does-the-clinical-evidence-support-mackenzie-shirilla-s-dissociative-amnesia-claim.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}