The Secret Language Mackenzie Shirilla Created With Her Mom to Beat Prison Monitoring

True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & Interviews · Jun 23, 2026 · 17m

They knew the calls were recorded. So Mackenzie Shirilla and her mother Natalie built their own language. A private code designed to say things on a monitored jail phone line that the system wouldn’t catch. Prosecutors cracked it. They introduced what they found at trial. The content of those decoded conversations tells you more about the Shirilla family than anything Steve said on Netflix or anything Natalie said about the Russos.Listeners have been tracking this family since the conviction. They watched Steve defend his daughter’s innocence on camera and lose his teaching position. They…