Hi guys. Welcome to another episode of Legally Brunette. I'll be your host today, Emily Simpson and

Shane. Also very exciting news. We have done so well and you guys have enjoyed Legally Brunette so much

that we are now moving to our own feed so you'll be able to find us easier. I know a lot of you

got confused because you were like, it goes to two T's. Now when you

search Legally Brunette, it will go to our own feed and we will be bringing you episodes weekly.

But for today, we are going to go into the case of the catfish mom, Kendra Lakari.

Originally, we weren't even going to, we were going to talk about a different case, but this has become so huge.

Everybody's talking about it.

It's a Netflix series that's called Unknown Number at the High School Catfish.

So let's just go through.

Let's just first do like a brief overview of kind of what we're talking about.

If you have not watched it yet, I suggest that you do.

Not only is it shocking and different than anything you've probably ever heard before,

but it's actually entertaining and has a lot of interviews of all the people involved in it.

So this is a case that started in 2022 with two Michigan teenagers, Lauren

Licari and Owen McKinney, and they began receiving anonymous text messages from an unknown number.

Over time, the communications escalated into persistent harassment with dozens of messages

arriving daily that included cruel insults, explicit remarks, and when I say

explicit, like grossly explicit, like sexually explicit, and also threats. Most text messages

focused on Lauren and Owen's relationship, targeting Lauren's insecurities and eventually forcing

them to break up. But the harassment did not stop there.

The cyber bully persisted with the text messages and eventually told Lauren to take her own life.

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