457: Unknown Number: The High School Catfish
True Crime Obsessed
True Crime Obsessed
4.2 • 34.9K Ratings
🗓️ 30 September 2025
⏱️ 94 minutes
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Summary
Lauryn and her boyfriend Owen were just young teens (13!!) when they started receiving harassing, disturbing, and disgusting text messages from an unknown source. The identity of the texter has been blowing minds across the whole damn internet, but in case you haven't heard, we won't spoil it here, but... your mind will be blown, too.
And you can check out the article in The Cut we reference here.
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| 0:00.0 | This might be our most requested episode in years. |
| 0:02.8 | Oh, major. |
| 0:03.4 | I don't even know what to say. |
| 0:04.6 | I guess we've got a lot to say. I have things to say, and I have things to say. Hey, hey, hey, hey. Oh, my God. That's the new song that's been in my head all day. People who I haven't spoken to in years, friends who don't even listen to this podcast are like, I can't wait to hear you guys talk about this. I mean. |
| 0:16.8 | It's going to be crazy. |
| 0:17.8 | I mean. |
| 0:18.3 | You came with your fighting face. |
| 0:19.7 | Look, I got things to say. Hi, Jillian Betzbole. Hello, Patrick Hines. Fam, don't forget to check out our Patreon. Yeah, we have a Patreon where we do all of the, like, long-form series. So, So like for example, this is a one-off. |
| 0:38.2 | This is like a 90-minute doc. I won't find those necessarily on the page. |
| 0:41.4 | No. Although way back in the beginning, we did do Queen of Versailles and Madonna's Truth or Dare. They are great episodes. And then we do do like 90, like two mob wives episodes, which is 90 minutes. So that's a lie. |
| 0:50.9 | I just lied to you. |
| 0:51.5 | I'm so sorry, Patreon. |
| 0:52.7 | It's mostly those long-form series like we did Amy Bradley. |
| 0:55.8 | Right now we're doing Mr. |
| 0:56.8 | Mrs. Murder. |
| 0:57.3 | What are we doing next? |
| 0:58.1 | Next. So that's a lie. I just lied to you. I'm so sorry, Patreon. It's mostly those long-form series like we did. Amy Bradley, right now we're doing Mr. |
| 0:56.8 | Mr. and Mrs. Murder. What are we doing next? Next up is Cold Case, the Tylenol murders, which is like really well done, stalking Samantha. All those things have like three, four, five, six, seven. Yeah, go listen to our episodes of The Staircase. Why not? Yeah, that has like a million episodes. |
| 1:09.3 | And then... |
| 1:09.8 | Making a murderer are 19 episodes. |
| 1:11.2 | 19 episodes. |
| 1:12.0 | Like, what were we thinking? |
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