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Netflix’s Unknown Number: High School Catfish reveal who was holding a high school couple Lauryn licari and Owen McKenny By sending them threatening and graphic texts for nearly two years – which eventually led to a custodial sentence.
The documentary, released on Thursday, August 29, centralized around Lauryn and Owenwho dated when they were 13 until they suffered cyberbully. The catfish specifically disturbed Lauryn over her romance with Owen, which caused them to question whether he was a fellow student or an adult in his hometown of Beal City, Michigan.
After the texts were first sent in 2020, there was a pause before the unknown number became even more persistent, sending up from 0 to 40 messages a week. Authorities took part, but only under FBI’s contact Bradley Peter they were brought in that they had calculated that Lauryn’s mother, Kendra Licariwas to blame.
Kendra, who was interviewed in the Docuseries, denied sending the initial messages. She confirmed that she harassed her daughter and Owen on social media as a way to get officers to take the original Catfish seriously before he worsened.
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Lauryn’s mother was then asked about the texts she sent encourages her daughter to harm herself. “I can say I wasn’t afraid to hurt herself,” Kendra said in a confession.
Kendra his guilty arrested and pleaded For two counts of stalking a minor child: one account each for Lauryn and Owen. She was sentenced to 19 months in prison and was released in August 2024. As part of her arrest, Kendra was not allowed to contact her victims, including her daughter.
According to their individual interviews over Unknown numberKendra and Lauryn kept in touch while she was behind bars. However, they have not seen each other for over a year and still do not have interactions despite the two expressing an interest in possible reconciliation.
Owen and his mother, Jill McKenny, Also get attention in the dock. The two accused Kendra of tormenting her daughter because she had a squeeze on Owen. In the meantime, Kendra claimed to have been raped at the age of 17 and her behavior about the outcome of mental illness was without a diagnosis that resulted from her trauma.
“I didn’t want her to go through that process, and I think that led me not to know how to handle things,” said Kendra, adding that she was “afraid to let (Lauryn) grow up” because of “what could happen to her.”
Owen have graduated since from secondary school and now attend college in Michigan. In the meantime, Lauryn is currently dating a new person from secondary school and has chosen to keep her social media more private in the middle of the new public benefit in her mother’s legal case.
Netflix’s Unknown Number: High School Catfish Currently streaming on Netflix.
