Mackenzie Shirilla Did This In Prison…
We just obtained the official prison conduct reports from Mackenzie Shirilla, and they reveal a shocking pattern of behavior behind bars. While she is serving life for murder, these internal files show she has already racked up dozens of disciplinary write-ups—from alleged drug use and smuggled contraband to serious allegations of sexual misconduct.
Hey there, and welcome to In the Know. I am your host, Jackson Buhigh. Today we are breaking down the exact files nobody has seen yet. This is the hidden reality of her life inside. Later in this video, you will also hear from a forensic psychologist about what they noticed regarding Mackenzie Shirilla’s conduct.
The common theme in these reports is that Mackenzie allegedly has problems with authority and following the rules. Watch this clip from a former fellow inmate who knew Mackenzie from behind bars.
“She was on these like sugar daddy for inmate websites. They are not advertised as sugar daddy, but that is what we call them inside. She is no longer on them anymore because I think people have kind of found out. It is not a good look, obviously. So I would not be surprised if she got a lot of traction from that when she was on there.”
So according to her fellow inmate, she was also allegedly participating in what they call sugar daddy websites on the inside—maybe to pass the time. But speaking of passing the time, we obtained phone calls between Mackenzie Shirilla and her mom where Mackenzie is so upset that she is bored behind bars. Listen to this.
“I am not reading the same book over and over and over again.”
“I do not know, Kenzie. I do not know. This just super, super sucks. I cannot—I mean, they should have like—when you come, they should be able to give you a welcome—not a welcome thing, but like, you are new. It is going to take a week to get your commissary.”
“Can you get a job?”
“No, because of the charges that I have. They do not let people with charges like me get jobs.”
But those are not the only phone calls we obtained. Just two days ago, we obtained more phone calls where Mackenzie seemingly mocks Dominic and Davion—the two boys who were killed in the car crash. Take a listen.
“I know I did not just pay twenty dollars for two hundred thousand songs of people that recorded in their basement. I am irritated. I cannot refund it. So now I am just stuck with this. Like, I am so irritated. Like Davion and Dom and Tyler Proctor people that just—honestly, I wish it sounded like Davion and Dom in the stew, but no, it is literally—who is it? It is giving—it is giving kids’ glory.”
With everything I have just shown you, it is easy to say that Mackenzie might not be remorseful about the killings. Both in court and in the Netflix documentary, she has maintained her innocence, stating that the crash was not intentional. She points to her diagnosis of postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, which her own legal team argued could have caused her to black out and subsequently crash the car.
Others, such as Dominic Russo’s sister, are not so convinced. Let us take a look at this clip of her appearing on TMZ Live and what she thinks of the case.
“Two weeks before—approximately, do not quote me—about two weeks before she killed my brother and Davion, they were driving. She was driving her vehicle down the highway. They started to fight. She threatened to kill him. She was driving erratically. Dom called his mom for help, and there were witnesses to that who were there and heard this. Dom had to get picked up from the side of the road. So Kenzie was driving and was saying that she was going to kill him.”
“What Kenzie did—because she is a narcissist—she was covering her tracks because everybody heard the call and knew what she had done that day. Dom, the friends, the family, everybody knew what she had done.”
Now I want to get into the conduct reports. There are about twenty-five of these conduct reports. Some feature her being reprimanded for not following the dress code. Some feature her being written up for being out of place at the wrong time. I will get into some of those just so you have an idea, but then I will get into the more pressing reports.
Let us start with the first one.
Date of violation: January 16th, 2025. I approached inmate Shirilla while she was in Case Manager Jones’s office to take her to the restroom to see if she was properly dressed. Shirilla was previously in Mr. Blank’s office, and he had asked her for her hoodie as it was altered and considered contraband. Shirilla stated that he could not have it because she was not dressed properly under the hoodie. When I told her I was taking her to the restroom to make sure she was dressed properly so I could take her hoodie, she stated, “If he gets a boner from the way I am dressed, that is his fault.” As she got to the door of Mr. Blank’s office, she told Mr. Blank to come with us to the restroom because she did not feel comfortable. When we got into the restroom, Shirilla unzipped her hoodie, and her state shirt was completely unbuttoned with just a sports bra on. She was instructed to button her shirt and give me her altered hoodie. The whole time we were in the restroom, she was very disrespectful and talked with a loud tone, asking if this was all we were worried about—her altered jacket.
Now, here is another one. A random bed search was conducted on inmate Shirilla. During the search, a packet of unknown medication was found with the name of an individual prescribed. Inmate Shirilla admitted to using the meds and that they were not hers. Also, she had a personal photo of herself containing drug use. For this reason, she is being charged with a 10.6—misuse of authorized medication for the pills—and a 12.7—possession of any other contraband, including any article knowingly possessed which has been altered or for which permission has not been given for the photo.
In these reports, Mackenzie has a chance to give her side of the story. For some of these conduct reports, I am sure you will find what she says in response quite amusing.
To which Mackenzie responds: “It did not have drug use in it. The pills were prenatal vitamins I got from another inmate.”
Now, Mackenzie also signs off with her signature in most of these reports, but in this one report, her signature reads “under duress,” which is quite interesting to note.
As we go through these, they keep heating up, and they keep getting crazier and crazier. This is on September 22nd, 2025.
On the above date and time, I, Officer Blank, was reviewing ViaPath visits—the virtual visits for inmates. When selecting on inmate Blank, it was in fact not inmate Blank. It was inmate Shirilla. During these visits, multiple inappropriate things took place. The visit that took place at 6:06 p.m. at the 15:24 marker: inmate Shirilla shows her breast to the visitor. Then at 21:08, the visitor shows a sex toy. Then lastly, at 22:53, the visitor shows her breast. On the visit at 7:42, at the 24:01 marker, the visitor shows her breast with a sex toy sticking out of her pants twice. Then at 25:17, the visitor sets the phone up and walks into the frame completely undressed. There was a total of seven video visits taking place between inmate Shirilla and the visitor, all taking place on inmate Shirilla’s account.
Mackenzie Shirilla was having virtual visits that were highly inappropriate in content, and she was also doing it on another inmate’s virtual Zoom account. Mackenzie responds very quickly by simply saying: “Offender pleads guilty.”
September 4th, 2024.
Upon searching inmate Shirilla, the following contraband was found: dangle earrings made from charms stolen from the kindwear room, twenty-nine bottles of paint, one bottle of wax, eleven paint tubes, one plastic bin, twenty-plus rocks, homemade pillow, altered painted Vans shoes, one pillow, two green t-shirts, fake eyelashes, one neck scarf, two long-sleeved t-shirts, pom-pom earrings made from items stolen from the kindwear room, gold and silver wire wrapped around pens, blue ball cap, white Nikes, gray thermal altered top, large white towel from box, blue boxer shorts, brown boots, green sweatpants, blue shorts, blue sweatpants, extra state top and pants, one blue sweatshirt, green pocket shorts, homemade pink boxers, Epsom salts.
How do you get all this in prison? This blows my mind. I am not even done.
Altered bleached blue sweatpants, gloves, key ring, blue t-shirt, pink t-shirt, handmade bag, ten containers of glitter, bag of beads, four bottles of glitter, rubber balloons (not inflated), one roll of stretch magic jewelry string, blue Solo cup, one bag of wraps, two mixed veggies, marshmallow fluff, two bottles of glue stolen from the kindwear room, four bags of nuts, edamame noodles, miso soup, white tank top, Scotch tape dispenser.
She is living better than me.
Two bottles of mixed pills, three boxes of Jell-O, large container of ceramic stealer stolen from the kindwear room. Shirilla does not work in the kindwear room. For all of this, I am charging Shirilla with possession of contraband to include altering and with stealing.
I did not know you could get all of this stuff in prison. Let me know what you guys think in the comments because that is absolutely insane to have boxes of Jell-O and all these different kinds of foods. She had homemade handbags. In her response, she even says, “I did not steal anything. I got it from Blank. I like to paint cups. She gave me the stuff. I paid ten dollars for each kindwear.”
So, I think she is saying another inmate was in the kindwear room and brought Mackenzie the things which Mackenzie paid for. But still, you cannot have that stuff in your cell. It is contraband according to the prison.
She received so many infractions for this. She received weeks away from electronics, ninety days banned from visitation, weeks and weeks at a time banned from the rec center just because of her conduct. There is a theme here that repeats itself time and time again: she cannot follow the rules.
These conduct reports—which I did not even read all of them, by the way—really matter because if she ever wants to be released, a judge is going to look at these and look at her conduct while she was in prison to make the determination: has she been rehabilitated? It does not look like it so far, at least to me. Reading these reports, it seems as though Mackenzie Shirilla thinks she is still in school. These reports look like detention slips as opposed to reports written by officers within the prison. She clearly, as stated in these reports, has trouble listening to authority and following the rules.
I want to introduce Dr. John—he runs the Hidden True Crime YouTube channel. He is a forensic psychologist. Dr. John, what do these reports say to you about Mackenzie Shirilla and what she has learned during her time in incarceration?
“Obviously, to do an evaluation, I would have to meet with her in person and do testing—a series of tests and assessments. I have not been able to do that, so this would be speculation. But certainly, criminals or convicted felons like Mackenzie who act out in prison would be showing some oppositional qualities. They would be showing some antisocial features. It is not typical for someone who is going to be rehabilitated to show this kind of behavior, especially if you are trying to get out with what is called good time. Meaning, if you are a model inmate, they typically give you credit for good behavior against time served. Here, you have a situation where she is not being compliant with the rules. It is not going to serve her, and it is not going to help her in the long run. But she keeps doing it anyway, which would suggest that perhaps there is something here related to her personality.”
You know, when you mention personality, that clearly stems from how she was raised. The prosecution argued a lot in this case that her parents kind of let her go on and do whatever she wanted to do. I am wondering if you think that has bled into her behavior in this prison.
“Absolutely. I think children with no limits—where parents do not set any limits—are more likely to act out. Children typically need parents to set limits so that they feel contained, so they feel safe. If you let a child just run wild and you do not set any boundaries, then the child does not know where to stop. The child is going to test the boundaries and the edges of acceptable behavior quite often. It seemed like that is what she was doing with her boyfriend Dominic Russo again and again. He was trying to end that relationship. She did not want it to happen. She kept pushing the boundaries, which ultimately led to Dominic and Davion’s unfortunate death.”
When you hear about the conduct reports with regards to dress code, contraband, drug use, and sexual misconduct, does that say anything to you about rehabilitation? The likelihood of rehabilitation?
“It seems to me she has little interest in rehabilitation. She does not seem to show a lot of remorse. In the documentary, her attorney is present and seems to be directing her. She makes a statement at the end about how this was not intentional. She is not apologizing in any significant manner. It is concerning. It just does not seem like she is showing much remorse. If you are not remorseful and you are not acknowledging what actually happened—and again, with her, it is this convenient lapse in memory for the entire incident—if you do not have the capacity to apologize or remember, it is going to be difficult to go through some type of rehabilitation. A big part of rehabilitation—and I have worked with a lot of offenders over the years in therapy groups—a big part of rehabilitation is acknowledging your crime, taking responsibility for it, and expressing some amount of empathy and remorse. We just do not see that here. She seems to be, for lack of a better term, the spoiled brat she was outside of prison. She seems to be the same person in prison. She has actually made comments to the effect that she does not believe she needs to change. She does not see rehabilitation as a viable option for her.”
How could someone like Mackenzie Shirilla be treated psychologically?
“Yeah, that is going to be a long answer. Part of her lack of remorse stems from the fact that there is probably some shame related to this crime. It is hard to believe that she does not know what she did and she does not know why she did it. I think you have to give people in these situations a certain amount of safety to open up. There has to be a certain amount of trust. She feels compelled to stay with this story, not only to appease her parents but to not acknowledge the severity of what she did.”
“If somebody like this is going to change, there has to be a level of trust and safety where she feels like she can tell the truth and not feel ashamed of that. How to do that? If she is reassured perhaps that she is not going to serve more time on her sentence, or if she is not going to be charged with anything else—which seems to be true, by the way. It seems this is her sentence for this crime, and that is going to be it. If she feels safe in opening up, then perhaps she might. But in prison, sometimes it is hard to experience that level of safety and security.”
Dr. John, thank you so much for talking to me today. I really appreciate it. You can find Dr. John on his YouTube channel, Hidden True Crime. Thanks again for joining me.
“Yep. Thanks for having me. Appreciate it. You guys are doing great work.”
Guys, thanks so much for watching. As the days and weeks continue, we will keep our ears and eyes peeled on this case. Make sure you check the TMZ YouTube channel for all major updates. Thanks so much for watching, and I will see you in the next one.
