A Woman Convicted of Killing Two People in a Deliberate Crash Is Amassing a Social Media Following From Prison, and the Numbers Keep Growing

You can hate Mackenzie Shirilla and prisons too

Netflix’s The Crash has a protagonist people love to hate—and who they’re thrilled to see behind bars.

A woman convicted of killing two people in a deliberate crash is amassing a social media following from prison, and the numbers keep growing

Mackenzie Shirilla, convicted of murdering her boyfriend Dominic Russo and her friend Davion Flanagan in a 2022 car crash, has seen her Instagram following surge sharply since the release of the Netflix documentary The Crash. Before the film dropped on May 15, her account had only a few thousand followers. It now sits at 44,200, a gain of well over 40,000 in just over two weeks. The most significant growth came during the documentary’s opening w…