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Chapter 1: What are the content warnings for this true crime episode?
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This is True Crime Tonight. I'm your host, Michelle Laurie. I'm here with my producers, Matthew Tankard and Ruby Bartzis. And every Sunday night from six till seven, we'll bring you our true crime book and documentary recommendations, chat with you, our listeners, and interview some of the biggest names in true crime. And, you know, nothing excites me more than when we get a SpeakPipe message.
And we have one, and thank you so much. Please send us messages, drop us a line. It's like leaving a voicemail. Give us a ring, basically. I love it. And there's links in our show notes if you're listening to this as a podcast or in our social media as well, Australian True Crime, if you would like to do this. I believe we've got one, guys.
Hey, True Crime tonight. I'm loving the new radio show. I would love to hear you cover one of my favourite Netflix docos, Don't F with Cats. It'd be interesting to hear Michelle's take on internet sleuths helping crack a case.
Love y'all. What a great suggestion. And that is one of our suggestions for what you can leave a message about. You can leave us a message about something we've already done. You've got something you want to say about it or something you'd like us to do. Now, this Don't F with Cats is one of the best documentaries I think I've ever seen. I love it. What about you guys?
I've actually never seen it, so I'm going to go and watch it.
I think there's lots of true crime listeners and viewers who think they can handle basically everything with true crime, but then when it comes to animal abuse, it's something completely different.
And what kind of animal abuse? Well, all right, I'm going to give you two options in a minute, Ruby, but one option you never have to know and that's the option I took. But do you know what, Matthew?
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Chapter 2: Why is 'Don't F**K with Cats' a significant documentary?
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You're listening to True Crime Tonight around the country. Michelle Laurie, Matthew Tankett and Ruby Bartz is with you and it's time to talk about a documentary. This is the one that is our recommendation for the week. It is The Crash on Netflix and it's doing massive numbers around the world. Have you guys seen it?
Yes, this was our group homework to all go and watch the crash. And I had my jaw on the floor.
I think we all did. We all had our jaw on the floor watching this. It's... How do you describe it? Well, it reminds me, Matthew, of... Remember a couple of years ago, I know I bring this up a lot, but it was really... made a big difference to the way I drive.
We talked to a lady who works for the traffic division of Victoria police and the way she talked about what we think of as accidents, most of us. And she's like, you know what? There's actually very few accidents. Usually these collisions are caused by either bad driving or deliberately caused. Um, And she was saying that there's very rarely bad guys in her world.
It's mostly putting ā she has to put people into jail for being distracted on their phone and killing someone or mucking around with their friend in the car and killing someone, you know. But this, well, what is it? I mean, it's a very rare situation where ā It looks like a young woman may have deliberately driven a car into a wall and killed her boyfriend and her friend.
So it was Mackenzie Sherilla driving the car and she was convicted of intentionally driving her car into a brick building at 100 miles per hour, killing her two passengers, her boyfriend Dominic Russo, who was 20, and their friend Davion Flanagan.
It's so hard to believe anyone could do that, that it's just hard to even say. Like, it's like, is that what we're saying?
Are we really saying that? And as well for, like, a 17-year-old girl. Yeah. I personally think it was premeditated.
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Chapter 3: What makes animal abuse a unique challenge for true crime audiences?
Wow. They had so much against her to pin that on her. Yeah. So I believed yes, but it's also a hard one because, like, Because it's impossible to imagine.
Yeah, because you have to imagine her suicidal as well, right? Because she's also in that same car. So the fact that she's the only one that survived, which, by the way, I think is like weirdly often the case.
Yeah, but she was like, she turned last minute and put her head under the steering wheel.
Yeah.
And she was the only one buckled up.
Yeah, that's true. But you know what I just thought? I think the same, Ruby. But the thing that I thought was a bit rough was them using her TikTok posts as evidence of guilt because she'd be doing a dance to a song where one of the lyrics mentioned death or something.
I agree with that.
It's like these people upload to TikTok multiple times a day.
And trending sounds. You don't even listen to the lyrics and think what effects it could have or be used against you in court.
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