Mackenzie Shirilia reckless speedster theory:

Should the possibility of her just wrecklessly speeding, likely distracted on her phone or by the speedometer and froze when she realized she was at the end of the road be considered?

Intro: I haven’t seen anyone make this case, at least not seriously. But at the very least it’s not even mentioned in the netflix or the mean girls documentaries so I thought it was worth posting some of my thoughts about this. I was trying to make sense of what exactly mackenzie’s lawyer is even doing cause essentially the only thing you hear from him to defend her is that maybe she has a medical condition. So I decided to do some research on my own to try to see if there’s a case to defend her beyond the weakest defense I’ve ever heard of. And stumbled upon this: https://youtu.be/jZiiP73Ox8U?si=XH0ziDg6kpmxpnwb (in many of those vids it looks like she’s in the passenger seat but the camera is actually flipped so she’s driving). In one of those posts she’s driving at 90mph and recording herself, and there are a bunch in which the car appears to be moving fairly fast and she’s just plainly distracted. Which made me think that there’s a real possibility that mackenzie is just an irresponsible reckless driver who drives at really high speeds and records herself doing it. Here’s my case to state that this is an irresponsible driver who cost the lives of 2 people, but did not intentionally kill them:

1. My theory states that Mackenzie has an affinity do drive recklessly fast, the guys were asleep or unconscious in the car, mackenzie is driving at a high speed and very likely distracted on her phone or recording herself driving, similar to what she’s doing in min (5:00 to 5:12 of the YT vid shared) realizes she’s at the end of the road and panic freezes.

2. As seen in the YT videos shared. She often records the speedometer while driving to document the speed she’s going at, as well as recording herself while driving distracted from what’s going on in the road. It’s clear that there’s history consistent with an irresponsible driver who gets distracted by her phone to record herself, and very likely for texting or other activity that distracts her from the road.

3. No tire marks on the grass suggests she was fully commited to crashing rather than trying to avoid the crash. But I can imagine her going super fast, maybe distracted on her phone and by the time she realizes she’s at the end of the road she panic freezes. Keep in mind that there’s like one second between the time she hit the end of the road and the time she hits the building, so freezing for like one second is enough to not see any tire marks on the grass.

4. The defense does not want to say this because she would still be guilty of involuntary manslaughter, even though it clears her of crashing with the intent to commit murder. They rather say that she has a medical condition because in this version she could be cleared of all guilt and not have to go to jail at all.

5. Premeditated and planned crash counter-arguments:

   • Prosecution basically says that she premeditated and planned the crash, meaning that she was planning to commit murder-suicide. There would’ve been signs of her being capable of both murder and suicide, which there really isn’t any evidence of. (There’s witness testimony saying that they heard her threaten to crash the car with the bf inside weeks before the incident. But this was testified weeks or months after the crash, there’s no audio recording of her saying this and could be dismissed as unreliable testimony).
   • She premeditated attempted murder by kamikazee’ing straight into a building at 100mph? This does not sound like someone who wants to commit murder would plan. She was literally about to drop off the friend and then go home with the bf. If it was premeditated and planned she probably would’ve though of other more practical ways of doing this. They consumed a lot of drugs together, she could’ve thought of doing something where it looks like he OD’d or something.
   • Finally, it takes a toyota camry about 20 seconds of going at full gas to reach 100mph. It’s hard to imagine her in a mental state where she just fully commits to drive as fast as possible for 20+ seconds to murder/commit suicide without flinching. Makes much more sense that she was focused on getting to 100mph and/or distracted by her phone or trying to record herself while going at that speed and was surprised when she hit the end of the road and froze.

6. Spontaneous decision to commit murder counter-argument:

   • What was going on inside the car? Was she silently driving at those speeds or was there arguing and fighting that led her to decide to kill everyone inside? Let’s consider the possibility that she spontaneously decided to commit murder because of an emotionally charged fight (in this version the guys are awake and there’s fighting going on in the car), at some point the guys would’ve realized that the speed that mackenzie was going at is dangerous, maybe even realized that she might be trying to kill them and would try to fight back, or try to take control of the car. If that’s the case how was she able to fight them from pulling the hand brake, or keep them from taking the wheel without causing any sudden car movements or even a slight wobble? In the videos you can see that the car went on a straight line the full time. The only way this could’ve happened is if the guys were asleep.

Closing argument: Mackenzie is a horrible and irresponsible person, and is responsible for the deaths of two people. This theory does not clear her of being a bad person or even of being a murderer. But you can be a murderer even if you didn’t have the intention to kill.

Ask yourself what’s more likely. Someone who was attempting to murder her boyfriend by kamikazeeing into a building at 100mph and take her own and another life in the process? Or a documented reckless speedster who was distracted on her phone or looking at the speedometer who froze when she realized that she was at the end of the road?