A disturbing new Netflix true crime documentary has stunned viewers by revealing how a Michigan mom tormented her own daughter with anonymous harassment for more than a year.
The film, Unknown Number: The High School Catfish, follows the case of Kendra Licari, who secretly sent her 13-year-old daughter, Lauryn, hundreds of abusive texts.
Experts have now weighed in on what could have caused Licari’s unusual and appalling behavior.
Kendra Licari’s anonymous messages to her daughter caused a nightmare
It all began in October 2020, when Lauryn and her then-boyfriend, Owen, started receiving vicious messages from an unknown number.
At first, the harassment faded, but by September 2021 the texts returned with alarming intensity, continuing for another 15 months.
The messages didn’t just t