Psychology Today | 30.06.2026 02:44
The Netflix documentary The Crash revisits the 2022 case of Mackenzie Shirilla, a young Ohio woman convicted of intentionally driving a vehicle into a building at over 100 miles per hour, killing her boyfriend and another passenger. Yet much of the public conversation surrounding the case has focused not on the tragedy itself, but on something else entirely. Just scroll through the social media comments to see the striking pattern of discussion about the alleged killer’s youth, beauty, and the unsettling contrast between appearance and action. “How can someone who appears so young, attractive, familiar, or ordinary be capable of something so devastating?” was the question on the public’s mind.
