{"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":"Mackenzie Shirilla's Data Recorder Captured Full Throttle And Zero Braking Into A Building","slug":"mackenzie-shirilla-s-data-recorder-captured-full-throttle-and-zero-braking-into-a-building","published_at":"2026-06-13T22:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/true-crime-today-daily-true-crime-news-interviews-568948/mackenzie-shirilla-s-data-recorder-captured-full-throttle-and-zero-braking-into-a-building","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/true-crime-today-daily-true-crime-news-interviews-568948","url":"https://audioboom.com/posts/8915479","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/audioboom.com/posts/8915479.mp3?modified=1781192447&sid=5001260&source=rss","summary":"The vehicle's event data recorder documented the accelerator at full capacity, zero brake application, and a direct trajectory into a commercial building in Strongsville, Ohio at approximately one hundred miles per hour. Dominic Russo and Davion Flanagan were pronounced dead at the scene. Mackenzie Shirilla survived. The defendant never provided a statement to law enforcement and did not testify at trial. The case was built entirely on physical and digital evidence. The evidentiary foundation included the data recorder findings, prior threats documented in text messages — Shirilla told Russo weeks before the crash she would \"crash this car right now\" — and evidence that Shirilla had driven to the same dead-end road days before the fatal night. Monitored jail calls between the defendant and her mother Natalie Shirilla, conducted in a private coded language, were intercepted and decoded by investigators. According to prosecutors, the decoded communications revealed the defendant asking whether they could inform police she had experienced a seizure prior to the crash. The seizure theory — attributed to a blood pressure condition called POTS — became the defense's primary argument. The court rejected it, finding the defendant's actions \"controlled, methodical, deliberate, intentional and purposeful.\" Post-conviction institutional records document thirty-six conduct violations in under three years at the Ohio Reformatory for Women, with guilty findings on thirty-two. Citations include unauthorized medication, altered prison clothing, contraband, refusing work assignments, and more than one hundred video visits with an unapproved former inmate conducted under another individual's name. On recorded calls, the defendant characterizes herself as the third person harmed and cont…","meta_description":"The vehicle's event data recorder documented the accelerator at full capacity, zero brake application, and a direct trajectory into a commercial building…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3001,"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/mackenzie-shirilla-s-data-recorder-captured-full-throttle-and-zero-braking-into-a-building/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/mackenzie-shirilla-s-data-recorder-captured-full-throttle-and-zero-braking-into-a-building.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}