Netflix’s Unknown Number: Lauren Licari & Owen’s Romance DESTROYED by Catfish Mom
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Tony Brueski
4.2 • 612 Ratings
🗓️ 8 September 2025
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Beal City, Michigan — Lauren Licari and her boyfriend Owen were the picture-perfect high school couple. Smart, popular, and headed for bright futures. But in Netflix’s Unknown Number: The High School Catfish, their love story is hijacked by a flood of anonymous texts.
What began as harmless pranks quickly spiraled into 40–50 messages a day — brutal lies about Owen cheating, cruel body-shaming attacks, and chilling commands for Lauren to end her own life. The harassment poisoned their relationship, tore apart their trust, and turned teenage romance into a nightmare.
This breakdown of Netflix’s Unknown Number looks at how cyberbullying metastasized into psychological torture — and how the anonymous stalker pushed Lauren and Owen to the breaking point.
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| 0:29.5 | A better help ad. |
| 0:31.5 | Lewis Capaldi partnered with BetterHelp to get word out about how important therapy can be. |
| 0:36.8 | I struggle most weeks to get up, get myself up and ready and go to therapy or whatever. |
| 0:42.2 | Even like to open the laptop to talk to, my therapist sometimes could be really difficult. |
| 0:46.6 | But I do it because I realise how important it is for me to continue to feel good. |
| 0:51.0 | I felt the best I've felt in a long time through therapy. |
| 0:54.8 | Learn more about online therapy at betterhelp.com. |
| 0:59.3 | This is Hidden Killers with Tony Brewski. |
| 1:02.4 | Here now, Tony Bruske. |
| 1:06.3 | Well, it's probably time we talk about the show. |
| 1:09.2 | Unknown number, the high school catfish on Netflix. |
| 1:15.1 | Lots of people are buzzing about this. Carol Hughes been buzzing about this and I sat down and I watched it and I swear to God, honestly, the first 45 minutes, I'm like, why am I watching this, Carol? |
| 1:32.7 | What are we? |
| 1:33.2 | Because I'm like, you've got to watch this. |
| 1:36.9 | Well, it's like, it's like all high school drama at first. |
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