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Netflix’s Unknown Number FULL STORY: Catfish Mom Kendra Licari EXPOSED

True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & Interviews

Tony Brueski

True Crime, News Commentary, News

4.2612 Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Netflix’s Unknown Number FULL STORY: Catfish Mom Kendra Licari EXPOSED

Netflix’s Unknown Number: The High School Catfish tells one of the most disturbing true crime stories in years. In Beal City, Michigan, high schooler Lauren Licari and her boyfriend Owen were bombarded with anonymous texts — 40 to 50 a day — spreading lies, insults, and chilling threats.

The community panicked. The FBI stepped in. And the shocking truth emerged: the stalker wasn’t a jealous classmate. It was Lauren’s own mother, Kendra Licari.

In this full Hidden Killers breakdown, Tony Brueski and Carol Hughes walk through the entire story — from the anonymous messages and investigation to Kendra’s exposure, narcissistic manipulation, and the devastating fallout for her daughter, Owen, and the entire Beal City community.

This is the full case analysis you need to watch before or after Netflix’s Unknown Number.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

This is Hidden Killers with Tony Bruske.

0:03.9

Here now, Tony Bruske.

0:07.7

Well, it's probably time we talk about the show.

0:10.8

Unknown number, the high school catfish on Netflix.

0:16.8

Lots of people are buzzing about this.

0:19.2

Carol Hughes been buzzing about this.

0:23.6

And I sat down and I watched it.

0:25.7

And I swear to God, honestly, the first 45 minutes, I'm like, why am I watching this, Carol?

0:34.3

What are we?

0:34.7

Because I'm like, you've got to watch this. Well, it's like, it's like all high school

0:40.3

drama at first. And you're like, and like, of course kids are doing this and saying horrible things to

0:47.2

each other. We used to do it through little notes that we would, you know, like fold up in origami

0:53.1

shapes and pass to each other in the hall like we're doing a drug deal or something.

0:57.5

And now it's digital.

0:58.9

And it can be far worse and far more damning because this sort of stuff, it's not just in a hallway.

1:04.2

It intrudes into your life.

1:06.6

It intrudes into every single inch of it.

1:10.2

And the level to which this thing went.

1:15.0

Oh, it's disturbing.

1:17.0

Yeah.

1:18.6

The messages that they got were very graphic, very sexual, in a really gross way.

1:28.4

And it makes it even more disturbing when you end up learning where it all came from.

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