Inside a Mom's Cyberbullying of Her Own Daughter Chronicled in Netflix's Unknown Number: The High School Catfish By Liam Quinn

The shocking case of a Michigan mother who cyberbullied her own daughter for nearly two years is the subject of a new Netflix documentary that features some of the texts sent.

Kendra Licari pleaded guilty to two counts of stalking a minor in 2023 after sending spates of harassing anonymous texts to her daughter, Lauryn, and Lauryn’s then-boyfriend, Owen McKenny, beginning in 2020.

Lauryn, then a teenager living in Beal City, Mich., first began receiving texts referencing her relationship with McKenny that claimed he was going to break up with her. The story is the focus of Unknown Number: The High School Catfish, now airing on Netflix.

Though Kendra disputes sending the initial texts, law enforcement officials say in the documentary that they believe she is responsible for sending hundreds of pages of graphic — sometimes even threatening — texts to her daughter and McKenny, as well as multiple other people.

Here are some of the most damning texts Lauryn received throughout the horrifying ordeal:

‘Owen is breaking up with you’

Lauryn received multiple texts from an unknown number that called her relationship with McKenny into question.

“Hi Lauryn, Owen is breaking up with you,” the text read. “He no longer likes you and hasn’t liked you for a while.”

In the documentary, Kendra claims she did not send the initial texts, but Isabella County Sheriff Mike Main says there is reason to believe she sent all the texts that her daughter received.

‘u are the ugliest person I’ve ever seen’

Several of the texts made disparaging remarks about Lauryn’s appearance and further suggested that McKenny did not want to be with her because of her looks.

‘ain’t no one want to see your anorexic flat a—’

Kendra anonymously wrote to her daughter, “fn trash b—— dont fn wear leggings ain’t no one want to see your anorexic flat a—.”

‘he wants sex’

Lauryn and McKenny, who were in their first two years of high school when the texts flooded in, also received sexually explicit messages.

“[McKenny] wants sex, bj’s n making out,” one claimed. “he don’t want ur sry a—.”

‘kill yourself’

The most serious texts involved telling Lauryn to die by suicide.

“Kill yourself b——,” one read. “His life would be better if you were dead.”

Another text threatened that Lauryn needed take her own life “before we do.”

“She told me to kill myself,” Lauryn reflected in the documentary. “It makes me feel a little bit sad, why is my own mom telling me to do that?”