Mackenzie Shirilla, infamously known as the “Hell on Wheels” murderer, expressed dissatisfaction with her prison conditions, lamenting to her mother about missing her iPad and criticizing the quality of the food, as she sought a more comfortable experience behind bars.
The 20-year-old voiced these complaints during a phone call from the Cuyahoga County Jail in Cleveland, Ohio, following her incarceration for deliberately crashing her vehicle into a brick wall in 2023, resulting in the deaths of her ex-boyfriend Dominic Russo and friend Davion Flanagan, according to reports by the US Sun.
“I really want my iPad, though,” Shirilla was overheard telling her mother, expressing a strong desire for the electronic device during their conversation.
While awaiting trial, the young inmate shared her struggles with insomnia and persistently requested the tablet, despite uncertainty about how she could obtain access to it within the jail’s confines.
“Can you call and ask? Please. Please,” she implored, only to be informed that such a request would be considered a “special request” by jail authorities.
“You’ll get it when you get it,” her mother, Natalie, responded, setting clear expectations for her daughter.
“Why the f–k man?” Shirillia shrieked.
In other jailhouse calls with her mother, Shirilla complained about the food she was being served and she began paying for food with her own money, her former prison girlfriend Shyann Topping told the US Sun.
Shirilla used the strange mother-daughter bonding time over the phone to learn that she began forming a cult following after the story of the crash made it to news outlets.
“Kenzie, it’s on the Today Show,” Shrillia’s mother told her, receiving a shocked reaction.
Shirilla was disappointed after learning her story didn’t make it to TV but was picked up by the NBC program as an online story.
Shirilla, then 19, was caught on camera deliberately flooring her Toyota Camry to 100 mph before it jumped a curb and flew into a brick warehouse in Strongsville, Ohio, back in July 2022.
Russo, who was in the passenger seat, and Flanagan, who was in the back, were both declared dead at the scene. Shirilla was found unconscious with her fuzzy Prada slippers still on the accelerator.
The deadly wreck is featured in Netflix’s “The Crash” documentary.
The glamorous killer is currently serving two concurrent sentences of 15 years to life at the Ohio Reformatory for Women in Marysville.
In a later call, Shirilla was recorded hauntingly fantasizing about capitalizing on the infamous murders to launch a career in Hollywood if she were sprung from prison early.
She also ordered for her Instagram bio to be changed to read “#freekenzie” despite her mother’s pushback.
“And please don’t forget to change my Instagram bio. Try and get into that one Instagram account and change my name,” Shirilla demanded, according to the outlet.
