Police Gave Me EVERYTHING Netflix Didn’t Show You About “Unknown Number”

Rotten Mango

Stephanie Soo

True Crime, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.8 • 25.7K Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2025

⏱️ 112 minutes

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Summary

A new true crime documentary has just been released on Netflix titled, ‘Unknown Number.’ The twist at the end is so unexpected and shocking that people start making TikToks of their friends and family’s reactions. The premise: Lauryn and Owen are thirteen year olds navigating a middle school romance until they get put into a group chat with an unknown third number. The texts start off silly. “Best day ever! Only one of you got voted on homecoming court – this is epic! LMAO!” They quickly escalate in severity and occurrence; sometimes up to 50 harassing text messages a day for roughly two years. “Owen loves me and I will always be the girl he loves. He will be with me while your lonely ugly ass is alone. I fucking own Owens dick. Cry more you fucking jealous bitch.” Who is sending these messages? Why do they want Lauryn and Owen to break up so badly? Why does it take the authorities two full years to finally catch the sender? Those were just a few of the many questions netizens still had after finishing the documentary... Rotten Mango was able to secure a never before seen case file that is nearly one thousand pages long. We discuss these exclusive details along with the sender’s possible motives, theories, and answers to some of the most asked questions. This is everything the new documentary ‘Unknown Number’ didn’t tell you about the real life case. Full show notes available at RottenMangoPodcast.com

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0:00.0	Badda being baddaboo.
0:02.9	Lauren and Owen, they don't really fight as a couple.
0:06.9	I mean, it probably helps that they're in high school and they're not trying to figure out how to pay taxes together.
0:12.1	But even for high school relationships, the two of them, Lauren and Owen, they just seem like they're freaking made for each other.
0:18.7	They're both athletes at the school.
0:20.6	They both have blondeish hair.
0:22.6	I feel like that's high school relationship gold.
0:25.7	People call them the golden couple,
0:28.4	which is a bit of a dramatic label to slap on two 13-year-olds,
0:32.8	but they're going to be 14 soon.
0:34.3	And it's just a nickname.
0:36.0	Until they get a text message in a group chat. It's a group
0:39.6	chat with Lauren the girlfriend, Owen the boyfriend, and this number that neither of them
0:44.7	recognize. And the text message reads, best day ever. Who is this? Only one of you got voted on
0:52.2	homecoming court. This is epic LMAO. For my non-Americans,
0:57.1	homecoming weekend is usually the weekend that football season really kicks off at schools,
1:01.3	meaning you have this really big football game, homecoming game. Owen is on the football team.
1:06.8	And then you have homecoming, which is like, I guess it's kind of similar to prom but not as official.
1:12.5	Everybody dresses up.
1:13.4	You have to have a date.
1:14.4	You have to ask someone to be your homecoming date.
1:16.9	It's a whole thing.
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