Mackenzie Shirilla's mom details daughter's 'nightmare' life behind bars

The mother of convicted murderer MacKenzie Shirilla has said that her daughter is struggling in prison.

Shirilla was convicted of the murders of her boyfriend Dominic Russo, 20, and their friend, Davion Flanagan, 19, after driving her car into a wall at 100mph when she was just 17 years old.

The case would go on to be the subject of a new documentary on Netflix called The Crash, and since her conviction, Shirilla has tried three times to appeal her case, but so far her efforts have been unsuccessful.

While her daughter is in prison, Shrilla's mom Natalie has also done an interview about her daughter's case on Chris Cuomo's podcast Cuomo Crime Time.

In the interview on the June 24 episode, Natalie continued to claim her daughter is innocent, and that she is having a hard time in prison.

Shirilla was convicted of the murders of Dominic Russo and Davion Flanagan (Netflix)

"It's almost like she's trapped in a nightmare that she has no memory of," she told the host, adding: "She's never seen the evidence. She's never seen the discovery. She's never seen anything."

She went on to say that her daughter is 'literally trapped in this nightmare', and that she 'struggles mentally'.

Speaking about the crash itself, Natalie claimed that Shirilla could not remember what had happened during the car crash.

"All she knows is that the boyfriend that she loved with her whole, whole heart is gone and Davion is gone and she was the driver in a car accident, and has no memory of it," she said.

Natalie also opened up about how her daughter has been keeping herself occupied behind bars, sharing that she has taken up art.

"It's so sad, and one of these days I'll share it. I'm not going to share it now for obvious reasons, but it's really sad," she said.

Mackenzie Shirilla's prison records allegedly detail 23 violations behind bars.

The mom went on to explain that her daughter's pictures appear to reflect her own circumstances, including self-portraits.

"She does self-portraits of herself where she has a rose of thorns around her neck or her mouth is sewn shut, and she's got all these question marks around her head like, 'Why, why, why?' And like, 'Where's Dom?’ Like, ‘What happened and [to] Davion?'" said Natalie.

Shirilla claims that she had suffered a medical episode while driving the car, leading to the crash.

However, this claim was rejected by a judge in 2023, who found that the crash had been 'controlled, methodical, deliberate, intentional, and purposeful'.

Shirilla was handed two concurrent life sentences for the murders.