Mackenzie Shirilla's appeal rejected by court after 'The Crash' revives Hell on Wheels case

Mackenzie Shirilla’s bid to get Ohio’s highest court to review her latest appeal has crashed.The Ohio Supreme Court declined to accept jurisdiction in Shirilla’s case, leaving intact a lower-court ruling that tossed her postconviction petition because it was filed one day too late.In an entry filed June 23, the court said it had reviewed the jurisdictional filings but would not take the case.The order was signed by Chief Justice Sharon L.
Kennedy.‘HELL ON WHEELS’ KILLER MACKENZIE SHIRILLA LANDS PRISON JOB WHILE SERVING LIFE SENTENCE FOR FATAL 2022 CRASHShirilla's case is back in the limelight after Netflix's new series, "The Crash."Mackenzie Shirilla makes a statement to the court during her sentencing in the Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court in Cleveland, Ohio on Monday, August 21, 2023.Shirilla was found guilty of four counts of murder and other charges relating to the deaths of her boyfriend, Dominic Russo, and his friend, Davion Flanagan, in July 2022.
(Law&Crime livestream)Shirilla, now 21, is serving two concurrent sentences of 15 years to life in prison for killing her boyfriend, Dominic Russo, 20, and their friend, Davion Flanagan, 19, after prosecutors said she deliberately slammed her Toyota Camry into a brick building in Strongsville, Ohio, on July 31, 2022.She was later convicted after a bench trial of four counts of murder, four counts of felonious assault and two counts of aggravated vehicular homicide.WATCH: MACKENZIE SHIRILLA’S FATHER CALLS HER ‘A DUMB 18-YEAR-OLD’ WHILE BERATING POLICE IN BODYCAM VIDEOProsecutors argued at trial that Shirilla drove into the building to end her toxic relationship with Russo, and that Flanagan was an unintended victim who happened to be in the car.Shirilla has maintained the crash was not intentional.Fox News Digital has reached out to her attorneys for comment.FOLLOW THE FOX TRUE CRIME TEAM ON XDominic Russo and Davion Flanagan were killed July 31, 2022, when authorities said Mackenzie Shiril...