By 9:45 PM, the aggressively bright fluorescent lights inside a giant Dollar General are enough to give anybody a headache, especially if you’ve been there all day. Ariel would know. She’s worked there for two years, watching most of the town pass through her register.

But one family stood out. They always came in just before closing, carrying a smell of cat urine, their children clinging close, hair hanging over their eyes, never looking up.

The family always bought the same things: a jug of water… and a large bottle of vegetable oil.

On June 29, Ariel rang them up like usual. The next day, she saw them on the news.

Sixteen children, crammed into a 12-by-12 room, in what’s now called the Ohio “House of Horrors.” And one question lingers: what were they doing with the vegetable oil?

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A forensic DNA test usually scans about 20 fixed markers of DNA. It may take a few days but it’s enough to differentiate a suspect from the rest of the world with a near perfect level of certainty.

Except for identical twins.

It’s not a perfect analogy but think of DNA as a 3 billion letter book. Most people have about 20 chapters that are completely different. For identical twins, their entire book is identical except for about 8 typos. Not 8 different chapters, or sentences, not even 8 different words. 8 letter typos amongst 3 billion letters.

The technology to find these is only available at a handful of labs and costs hundreds of thousands, even millions of dollars. Thankfully, identical twin crime is rare.

Except for Ohio.

A woman who lives alone is raped and murdered in her own home, and the DNA left at the scene traces back to a set of identical twins.

Two 13 year old boys are the main suspects but which twin is innocent?

And which twin is guilty?

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A forensic DNA test usually scans about 20 fixed markers of DNA. It may take a few days but it’s enough to differentiate a suspect from the rest of the world with a near perfect level of certainty.

Except for identical twins.

It’s not a perfect analogy but think of DNA as a 3 billion letter book. Most people have about 20 chapters that are completely different. For identical twins, their entire book is identical except for about 8 typos. Not 8 different chapters, or sentences, not even 8 different words. 8 letter typos amongst 3 billion letters.

The technology to find these is only available at a handful of labs and costs hundreds of thousands, even millions of dollars. Thankfully, identical twin crime is rare.

Except for Ohio.

A woman who lives alone is raped and murdered in her own home, and the DNA left at the scene traces back to a set of identical twins.

Two 13 year old boys are the main suspects but which twin is innocent?

And which twin is guilty?

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Mackenzie Shirilla killed two young men.

A lot of people, including the courts believe that a part of Mackenzie’s motive was her longterm, hostile relationship with Dominic that he, supposedly, wanted out of.

Mackenzie and her parents deny any intent at all. They go so far as to allege that Mackenzie and Dominic’s relationship wasn’t perfect but it also wasn’t that bad.

We will be chronologically recounting their fights throughout the years and leading up to the murders.

30k pages of texts between Mackenzie and Dominic from 2020 to July 2022.

Years of texts messages between a killer and one of her victims? Years of texts messages between two teenagers that ended in tragedy? Or a little bit of both?

Davion Flanagan Memorial Scholarship Fund

Change the Game for Dom Foundation

Petition · "Dom and Davion's Law" - Victims Before Influencers: Modernize Son of Sam Laws - United States · Change.org

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Mackenzie Shirilla killed two young men.

A lot of people, including the courts believe that a part of Mackenzie’s motive was her longterm, hostile relationship with Dominic that he, supposedly, wanted out of.

Mackenzie and her parents deny any intent at all. They go so far as to allege that Mackenzie and Dominic’s relationship wasn’t perfect but it also wasn’t that bad.

We will be chronologically recounting their fights throughout the years and leading up to the murders.

30k pages of texts between Mackenzie and Dominic from 2020 to July 2022.

Years of texts messages between a killer and one of her victims? Years of texts messages between two teenagers that ended in tragedy? Or a little bit of both?

Davion Flanagan Memorial Scholarship Fund

Change the Game for Dom Foundation

Petition · "Dom and Davion's Law" - Victims Before Influencers: Modernize Son of Sam Laws - United States · Change.org

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Some of the best advice you’ll ever hear is simple: don’t go to prison. But sometimes, it’s unavoidable. If you do, the Ohio Reformatory for Women in Marysville isn’t what you’d expect, more like a college campus than a prison. Programs, classes, even freedom to move during three daily yard times.

Yard time is where everything happens, fresh air, social life, information. It’s where people start whispering about the show they just saw.

The one about 17-year-old Mackenzie Shirilla.

The same Mackenzie walking the yard, full face of makeup, hair done, curls set, gems in her hair.

That one?

Killed two people.

And now, one former inmate says,

She’s in the bathroom getting trains run on her…

Davion Flanagan Memorial Scholarship Fund

Change the Game for Dom Foundation

Petition · "Dom and Davion's Law" - Victims Before Influencers: Modernize Son of Sam Laws - United States · Change.org

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Some of the best advice you’ll ever hear is simple: don’t go to prison. But sometimes, it’s unavoidable. If you do, the Ohio Reformatory for Women in Marysville isn’t what you’d expect, more like a college campus than a prison. Programs, classes, even freedom to move during three daily yard times.

Yard time is where everything happens, fresh air, social life, information. It’s where people start whispering about the show they just saw.

The one about 17-year-old Mackenzie Shirilla.

The same Mackenzie walking the yard, full face of makeup, hair done, curls set, gems in her hair.

That one?

Killed two people.

And now, one former inmate says,

She’s in the bathroom getting trains run on her…

Davion Flanagan Memorial Scholarship Fund

Change the Game for Dom Foundation

Petition · "Dom and Davion's Law" - Victims Before Influencers: Modernize Son of Sam Laws - United States · Change.org

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Mackenzie Shirilla was found guilty of murder, felonious assault, and aggravated vehicular homicide after she murdered her former boyfriend Dominic Russo and his roommate at the time, Davion Flanagan. She deliberately ended the young men’s lives by driving her car into a brick wall at 100 miles per hour.

Boom.

That’s the graphic t-shirt that Mackenzie’s father decided to wear for his Netflix documentary debut.

“I’m a buff baby who can dance like a man, I can shake'a my fanny, I can shake'a my can, I'm a tough tootin' baby—“

That’s the ringtone to Steve Shirilla’s phone that goes off mid-interview.

“This wasn't a volatile relationship. They were never going to break up.”

And that’s Steve’s line he tells an interviewer when asked about his daughter’s relationship with one of the young men she killed.

We personally read tens of thousands of pages of text messages between the two that suggest the complete opposite. This is Mackenzie Shirilla’s double homicide case continued.

Davion Flanagan Memorial Scholarship Fund

Change the Game for Dom Foundation

Petition · "Dom and Davion's Law" - Victims Before Influencers: Modernize Son of Sam Laws - United States · Change.org

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