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Serialously with Annie Elise

316: What Netflix DIDN’T Show: The Catfish Case Everyone’s Talking About | Kendra Licari

Serialously with Annie Elise

Annie Elise & Audioboom Studios

Society & Culture, Daily News, Documentary, News, True Crime

4.710.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Netflix just released Unknown Number: The High School Catfish, and the shocking story behind it is even darker than you realize. A teenage girl and her boyfriend were tormented by nearly 350,000 harassing texts over two years. Police, school officials, and even the FBI got involved, but when the truth came out, the stalker’s identity stunned everyone. In this episode, I’m breaking down the real case behind the Netflix documentary, and the disturbing details you didn’t see on screen.

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0:00.0

A high school girl in Michigan was cyber bullied for more than a year, sometimes receiving up to 12 threatening messages a day.

0:08.0

And who turned out to be the suspect shocked everyone.

0:12.0

The more friends you have, the easier it is to be betrayed by them.

0:17.0

It was so bad to the point where I didn't want to even go to school anymore.

0:20.0

The motive is still a mystery.

0:21.6

Things are about to get so much worse.

0:23.6

There's no confirmed motive, but there are some theories being floated up.

0:26.6

There's still no explanation for why.

0:33.6

Hey, true crime besties.

0:34.6

Welcome back to an all new episode of Serialistly.

1:01.8

Hello, hello, hello, and welcome back to an all new episode of serialously with me,

1:08.8

your true crime bestie, Annie Elise. I am here to break down another wild-ass case for you today.

1:13.0

It is one that honestly still has me reeling, and mind is just like warped and shook and all of the things. But before we get into all of that, I hope you all

1:19.1

had a fantastic weekend. Hopefully you are getting ready to, I don't know, do something amazing

1:24.9

this week. Hopefully you're in like your Zen place, whether you're on your way to work, walking, cleaning the house, doing dishes, whatever it is

1:31.7

you're doing. Thanks for being here. Thanks for listening with me. I just got back into town

1:37.0

myself from CrimeCon over the weekend in Denver, which let me just tell you was,

1:42.7

crime con's always an incredible experience. There's so many,

1:45.2

like, victims' families there. There's so many supportive people. And it's just always a

1:51.1

really moving weekend. And so if I met you and had the pleasure of meeting you at CrimeCon,

1:55.7

thank you for coming up and approaching me and talking with me. I love meeting all of you guys

2:00.6

and talking with you. And yeah meeting all of you guys and talking

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