{"id":12352,"date":"2026-06-03T15:52:01","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T15:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/8657085.xyz\/?p=12352"},"modified":"2026-06-03T15:52:01","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T15:52:01","slug":"mackenzie-shirillas-pal-reveals-devastating-truth-about-hell-on-wheels-killers-parents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/8657085.xyz\/?p=12352","title":{"rendered":"Mackenzie Shirilla&#8217;s pal reveals devastating truth about &#8216;Hell on Wheels&#8217; killer&#8217;s parents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <div style=\"display: grid; grid-template-columns: 300px 160px; gap: 2px; width: 460px; background: #eee; padding: 2px;\">\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u6574\u884c\u5bbd\u5e7f\u544a -->\r\n  <div style=\"grid-column: 1\/-1; width: 460px; height: 250px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876674\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n  <div style=\"grid-column: 1\/-1; width: 460px; height: 90px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876676\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u5de6\u4fa7\u7ad6\u6392 -->\r\n  <div style=\"height: 250px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876672\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n  <div style=\"height: 500px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876680\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u53f3\u4fa7\u6469\u5929\u697c\uff08\u548c\u5de6\u4fa7\u5b8c\u5168\u5bf9\u9f50\uff09 -->\r\n  <div style=\"grid-row: 3\/5; height: 750px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876678\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n  \r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e6\" data-zoneid=\"5876682\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n<\/div><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>CLEVELAND, Ohio \u2013 \u201cHell on Wheels\u201d killer Mackenzie Shirilla\u2019s\u2019s parents were always more concerned with winning their daughter\u2019s approval than raising her right, a former friend told The Post.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom what I see, they didn\u2019t really care about her. They cared more to have her approval,\u201d said Jaina Maynard, who met Mackenzie in middle school.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKenzie runs the show \u2013 she runs her parents,\u201d the 21-year-old added. \u201cThey shouldn\u2019t have been her friend. They should have been her parents.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Parents Steve and Natalie Shirilla allegedly enabled their daughter\u2019s \u201cspoiled brat\u201d behavior while she was growing up, the former pal told The Post.  <span class=\"credit\">A. Ripepi &amp; Sons Funeral Home<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Maynard said Steve and Natalie Shirilla enabled their daughter\u2019s \u201cbeyond spoiled brat\u201d behavior for years before she intentionally plowed her car into a brick wall in July 2022, killing her ex-boyfriend Dominic Russo and friend Davion Flanagan.<\/p>\n<p>Mom Natalie \u201ckind of seemed like one of the girls,\u201d the old pal recalled. <\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>\u201cShe didn\u2019t seem like a full-on mom. She felt like one of our friends.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But Mackenzie routinely took advantage of that dynamic \u2013 and \u201cwas really emotionally and verbally abusive to her mother,\u201d Maynard claimed.<\/p>\n<p>She recalled one incident during eighth grade when Natalie was driving a group of Mackenzie\u2019s friends to a haunted house.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKenzie said word for word: \u2018Mom, shut the f\u2013k up.\u2019 And guess what? Her mom shut the f\u2013k up,\u201d Maynard said.<\/p>\n<p>Moments later, a seemingly unfazed Natalie was back to offering the girls snacks.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe was so, so nice after Kenzie just treated her like utter s\u2013t,\u201d Maynard said. \u201cWhatever Kenzie says, her mom just does.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Mackenzie \u201cwas really emotionally and verbally abusive to her mother,\u201d the former friend claimed.  <span class=\"credit\">COURTESY OF NETFLIX<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Mackenzie also slammed Natalie as \u201cso effing annoying\u201d and \u201ca bitch\u201d in conversations with her baby-faced pals at the time, according to Maynard.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHer parents have done everything for her since she was a little kid, and she\u2019s just badmouthing her parents every chance she can get because they won\u2019t<em> <\/em>buy her the next collection of Bape hoodies,\u201d she explained, referring to streetwear sweatshirts that run between $300 and $600. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s the reason her mom was a bitch.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Still, Mackenzie was always decked out in \u201cnice clothes, all the new shoes, the nice bags\u201d courtesy of Steve and Natalie, Maynard said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously her parents gave her everything\u2026\u2019til she started dating Dom, and Dom ended up providing for her,\u201d the former friend continued \u2013 and called Mackenzie \u201cthe definition of a spoiled brat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mackenzie, now 21, is serving two concurrent 15 years to life sentences in an Ohio women\u2019s prison after being convicted in 2023 of murdering Russo and Flanagan. She is appealing her conviction for a second time.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Mackenzie was convicted of murdering ex-boyfriend Dominic Russo and friend Davion Flanagan during the July 2022 crash. <span class=\"credit\">COURTESY OF NETFLIX<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Her parents have faced renewed scrutiny for their seemingly permissive approach to their daughter\u2019s behavior and hardline defense of her horrific crimes, as captured in a new popular Netflix documentary, \u201cThe Crash.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI knew she was smoking dope \u2013 I don\u2019t have a problem with her smoking dope,\u201d Steve said in the film, while addressing Mackenzie\u2019s frequent marijuana consumption throughout her teens.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you\u2019re going to smoke a drug, that\u2019s the one I believe you should take\u2026you know, she\u2019s not shooting up,\u201d he continued.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The questionable comment got Steve suspended from his teaching job at a Pre-K through eighth grade school outside of Cleveland, where administrators said they were investigating allegations of his \u201cpoor judgement\u201d last month.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Maynard praised the school\u2019s decision and claimed the Shirillas weren\u2019t honest about the full extent of their daughter\u2019s drug usage.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey knew that their daughter was driving and smoking weed and speeding,\u201d she said. \u201cHer mom literally follows her on social media and Kenzie would post this freely.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The ex-pal claimed Mackenzie regularly posted videos of herself smoking from a bong on Snapchat as early as middle school.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe would go home and immediately sit in front of the camera, light her bong up and dance in front of the camera and post the videos,\u201d she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Steve and Natalie \u201cknew that their daughter was driving and smoking weed and speeding,\u201d the ex-pal said.  <span class=\"credit\">City of Strongsville<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>\u201c<\/strong>I was smoking in middle school, so I would actually get weed from her,\u201d Maynard alleged, while dismissing online rumors that Russo was a drug dealer as \u201ccompletely false.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Maynard also accused Mackezie of \u201cseverely tormenting\u201d classmates \u2013 including one girl who allegedly left the school district after the killer encouraged her to harm herself in middle school.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt got to the point where this girl ended up checking herself into a mental facility and then left the district of Strongsville altogether\u2026it was horrible,\u201d she claimed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Steve and Natalie have continued to maintain their daughter\u2019s innocence and recently expressed dissatisfaction about how the Netflix documentary was edited.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The couple also drew backlash during Mackenzie\u2019s sentencing hearing, when Natalie referred to Flanagan as \u201ca new friend\u201d while pleading to the judge for leniency.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat does that mean? His life was worthless?\u201d the judge demanded, prompting Natalie to apologize to the mourning families.<\/p>\n<p>Steve and Natalie could not be reached for comment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- \u603b\u5bb9\u5668\uff1a\u6700\u5927\u5bbd908px Grid\u7d27\u51d1\u5e03\u5c40 -->\r\n<div style=\"display: grid; grid-template-columns: 728px 160px; gap:2px; width:908px; background:#eee; padding:2px;\">\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u901a\u680f\u9876\u90e8\uff1a\u6700\u5927\u6a2a\u5e45 908x258 \u8de8\u6574\u884c -->\r\n  <div style=\"grid-column:1\/-1; height:258px; background:#ff6b6b; display:grid; place-items:center;\">\r\n    <!-- JuicyAds v3.0 -->\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" data-cfasync=\"false\" async src=\"https:\/\/poweredby.jads.co\/js\/jads.js\"><\/script>\r\n<ins id=\"1114307\" data-width=\"908\" data-height=\"258\"><\/ins>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" data-cfasync=\"false\" async>(adsbyjuicy = window.adsbyjuicy || []).push({'adzone':1114307});<\/script>\r\n<!--JuicyAds END-->\r\n  <\/div>\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u7b2c\u4e8c\u901a\u680f\uff1a728\u00d790 \u901a\u680f -->\r\n  <div style=\"grid-column:1\/-1; 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