{"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":"The Crash: Did the Prosecution Misread Mackenzie Shirilla's Relationship Entirely?","slug":"the-crash-did-the-prosecution-misread-mackenzie-shirilla-s-relationship-entirely","published_at":"2026-06-04T13:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/true-crime-today-daily-true-crime-news-interviews-568948/the-crash-did-the-prosecution-misread-mackenzie-shirilla-s-relationship-entirely","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/true-crime-today-daily-true-crime-news-interviews-568948","url":"https://audioboom.com/posts/8911508","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/audioboom.com/posts/8911508.mp3?modified=1780510817&sid=5001260&source=rss","summary":"Two weeks before the crash that killed Dominic Russo and Davion Flanagan, there was an incident on I-71. The prosecution's version: a friend overheard Mackenzie Shirilla say \"I will crash this car right now\" during a fight with Dominic. That testimony became evidence of prior calculation — proof she'd rehearsed the act before she carried it out. But text messages tell a different story. Mackenzie told Dominic's mother it was Dom who grabbed the steering wheel, not her. Two versions of the same violent moment, and only one was presented at trial. That contradiction sits at the center of a much bigger question about the Mackenzie Shirilla case — did the prosecution actually understand the relationship it was using as a motive? The couple broke up constantly. Fights were explosive on both sides. Mackenzie sent messages saying she wanted to hurt herself during arguments. The dynamic was volatile, destructive, and far more mutual than the one-sided narrative the trial presented. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott has spent decades working in domestic violence, forensic mental health, and crisis intervention. She examines the relationship dynamics the trial treated as evidence but never clinically analyzed — the attachment patterns that keep two young people trapped in a destructive cycle, what a breakup represents to someone with Mackenzie's psychology, and why the competing accounts of that I-71 incident tell a clinician something very different from what they told a prosecutor. The crash happened inside a relationship. If you misread the relationship, you misread everything that followed. Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www…","meta_description":"Two weeks before the crash that killed Dominic Russo and Davion Flanagan, there was an incident on I-71. The prosecution's version: a friend overheard Mac…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":907,"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/the-crash-did-the-prosecution-misread-mackenzie-shirilla-s-relationship-entirely/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/the-crash-did-the-prosecution-misread-mackenzie-shirilla-s-relationship-entirely.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}