Netflix is back with yet another true-crime documentary, dredging up a sensational case. The OTT site’s latest offering in the genre, which has generated immense online buzz, is The Crash. The story follows the high-profile Ohio criminal case of Mackenzie Shirilla, a 17-year-old (now 21) who was convicted of dual murder. She intentionally slammed her car into a brick building at 100 mph, killing her boyfriend and his friend. The documentary features her interviews, showcasing her remorse for her actions. However, recently, one of her jail inmates contested the portrayal and made some explosive claims.
Mackenzie Shirilla’s former cellmate alleged that she had multiple affairs in prison
A 27-year-old woman named Mary Katherine Crowder, who served time with Mackenzie Shirilla at the Ohio Reformatory for Women, told the New York Post that The Crash‘s subject thought of herself as the “queen bee of Mean Girls”. The former cellmate alleged that Mackenzie Shirilla has had multiple girlfriends and frequently displayed hickeys while serving her life sentence. According to Mary’s revelation, The Crash‘s subject dolled up in cute outfits and makeup behind bars and slept with multiple inmates. Mary also shared the same in one of her TikTok videos, and stated:
“Mackenzie has had multiple girlfriends…She was walking around with hickies on her neck. If she was grieving or remorseful, she would not have gone to prison and jumped into prison relationships over the next six months.”
Who paid for Mackenzie Shirilla’s makeup and cute outfits?
According to Mary, MacKenzie Shirilla’s parents bankrolled her lifestyle inside the Ohio Reformatory for Women. The former stated that Natalie and Steve Shirilla continuously funded their daughter’s prison commissary account and provided her with high-end items, makeup, and commissary goods. MacKenzie allegedly even had access to limited-edition prison store products, and expensive clothes or shoes allowed under facility rules. Besides her parents, her sugar daddies also allegedly paid her for maintaining her image as the “Regina George of prison.” Mary Katherine Crowder said:
“Everyone knew why she was there, and she walked around like she was this famous person within prison. She always had makeup done, hair done, her clothes were altered to fit her body tighter or be different. She definitely carried herself like she was the Regina George of prison…She was very much like an ‘It girl.'”
Mackenzie Shirilla’s former cellmate claimed her remorseful portrayal in The Crash was inaccurate
Mary claimed that Mackenzie’s emotional and remorseful portrayal in the Netflix’s The Crash was entirely inaccurate. She pushed back against the documentary’s narrative, alleging that it’s subject’s behaviour behind bars was very different from what was shown on camera. According to Mary, Mackenzie was “always laughing, always smiling and happy,” showing no signs of repentance for killing two people. She further claimed that Mackenzie lived a comfortable life inside the facility and even sold customised jewelry and shoes to other inmates. In one of her recent TikTok videos, Mary stated:
“She was always laughing, always smiling and happy, like it was never on her mind that she was serving two concurrent 15-to-life sentences because she killed two people. Never one time did I see Mackenzie cry.”
Mary was shocked to see the documentary on her once-cellmate, Mackenzie Shirilla, stating that her “jaw literally dropped, because her [Mackenzie’s] demeanour and the way that she looked was nothing like the person I was in there with.” She couldn’t connect the real Mackenzie she was in jail with to the one she was seeing on Netflix. In the documentary, the 21-year-old convicted emotionally stated that she was “not a monster” and felt guilty for killing her boyfriend and his friend. However, according to Mary’s version of her activities behind bars, that doesn’t seem to be the case.
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