“Hell on wheels” killer Mackenzie Shirilla fretted over her social media accounts and designer handbags as authorities investigated the fiery 2022 car crash that killed her ex-boyfriend and friend, newly released interviews reveal.
Police bodycam footage recorded in the days after the devastating wreck — for which Shirilla, 20, was later convicted of double murder — captured the moment a Strongsville, Ohio, police officer returned her cellphone after investigators completed a digital download of its contents.
“I’m sorry but were people going through my Snapchats too, like opening stuff?” an incredulous Shirilla asked moments after getting her phone back, according to the audio clip.
“’Cause I see like two or three of them opened,” she continued, rudely cutting off the unidentified officer as he explained investigators had simply “mirrored” the device, creating a duplicate record of its contents.
“Even if we did, we have a search warrant,” the no-nonsense cop shot back.
“We’re going to look through everything that’s on your phone, up until the moment I gave it back to you,” he added — echoing the explanation he had given moments earlier to similarly skeptical questions from Shirilla’s mother, Natalie.
“You had search activity and downloaded the data — everything now, nobody is looking at?” Natalie asked.
“Nobody is looking, but we mirrored the phone [and] we’re gonna look through the phone,” the officer replied.
Natalie pressed further: “But everything she does now?”
“Now, she’s on her own,” the officer reiterated, stressing that investigators were only interested in her phone activity leading up to the crash.
It’s unclear where the undated bodycam footage was filmed.
Shirilla and her seemingly tone-deaf parents — who appear in the new hit Netflix documentary “The Crash” about the highly publicized case — then turned their attention to the killer’s designer handbags from the crash scene and home she shared with ex-boyfriend and victim Dominic Russo.
“It’s Christian Dior,” an exasperated Shirilla laments to the officer in the clip.
“OK, not the Michael Kors? There was a Michael Kors purse in the car,” the cop replies.
“I have like — I carry, like, several purses,” the killer responds, prompting her mother to chime in: “She has a lot of bags.”
Her father, Steve Shirilla, then asks whether police could retrieve one of the bags from the home, saying he feared any interaction with Russo’s grieving mother would “turn ugly” and make the nightmare ordeal “worse than it is.”
At one point during the fiery exchange, Shirilla turns to her mother and speaks in a strange, gibberish-like code before floating a wildly out-of-touch proposal to end the criminal investigation.
“Can I just, like, take my whole license away for like 10 years or something like that, like I don’t even know,” she blubbers, as the cop swiftly shuts the idea down.
Natalie — who, along with Steve, has faced public backlash for their cavalier approach to the double tragedy — then peppered the officer with a fresh round of questions as he explained that prosecutors, not victims’ families, would decide whether to file criminal charges against Shirilla.
“If anybody presses charges, it’s the county. It’s not the families,” the cop said. “The state chooses whether or not they want to charge her.”
“I just don’t understand about the whole county thing because what if the parents and the families don’t want to” press charges, Natalie cried.
Still struggling to grasp the explanation, she repeatedly asked “Why?” as the officer said: “It’s not up to them at this point … because that’s harm against society.”
Shirilla is serving two concurrent sentences of 15 years to life at the Ohio Reformatory for Women in Marysville after a judge found her guilty of double murder during a dramatic bench trial in 2023. She is appealing her conviction for a second time.