Unknown Number: The High School Catfish , a documentary out Friday on Netflix, explores the shocking true story of a mother who catfished her own daughter—meaning she sent hostile text messages from an unknown number, including several telling her daughter to kill herself.

In the small town of Beal City, Michigan, authorities say that starting in the fall of 2021, Kendra Licari sent aggressive text messages for over a year under an unknown number telling her daughter Lauryn and her boyfriend Owen to break up and pretending to be another classmate who was pining for him.

In 2023, a judge sentenced Kendra to at least 19 months in prison. Directed by Skye Borgman, Unknown Number features the belligerent text messages, police body cam footage of the moment Kendra was arrested, intervi

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