Mackenzie Shirilla’s case has been making headlines ever since the documentary, The Crash, was released on Netflix on May 15, 2026 (ET). It has been almost a fortnight since the details of the horrifying incident left everyone stunned. The buzz around the case has been revived by the documentary and has even created a significant amount of backlash. For the unversed, Mackenzie Shirilla first made headlines after the July 2022 crash that took the lives of her co-passengers, including her boyfriend, Dominic Russo and their friend, Davion Flanagan.
Mackenzie Shirilla was convicted of the murders in 2023 and is currently serving a life sentence for the crime and is back in the spotlight courtesy of a Netflix documentary, The Crash. The documentary features interviews with Mackenzie, her friends and family. However, what has really caught everyone’s attention now is the dissection of Mackenzie’s body language by a Canadian mentalist and behaviour analyst, Bedros “Spidey” Akkelian, on his YouTube channel, The Behavioural Arts.
Was Mackenzie Shirilla deliberately vague in a key moment featured in Netflix’s The Crash?
Bedros Akkelian has over 1.47 million subscribers on his YouTube channel. In a video shared by him on May 24, 2026, he studied Mackenzie Shirilla’s body language in the documentary. He analysed the moment where the convicted teen was asked by an off-camera person, “How does a medical emergency account for the control of the car?” For the unversed, the question was a reference to Mackenzie’s defence during the trial, where she claimed she suffered from Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS).
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