Where Are Owen McKenny’s Parents Now? All About Unknown Number Subjects Jill and Dave McKenny By Caroline Blair 10

Jill and Dave McKenny were living a typical life, raising their children, Owen and Macy, when a cyberstalking ordeal changed their lives.

When Owen was just 13 years old, in October 2020, he and his then-girlfriend, Lauryn Licari, began receiving cruel text messages from anonymous numbers. Although the messages took a hiatus, they picked back up again — and got even more aggressive — in September 2021.

After reading several of the messages, both Jill and Dave decided to get involved and tried to figure out who was behind the threatening texts. Jill also teamed up with Lauryn’s mom, Kendra Licari, to investigate the situation, and the two quickly became close friends while trying to get to the bottom of the messages.

However, after the families and school authorities contacted the FBI to help with the case, the McKennys and Lauryn learned the devastating truth that Kendra had been behind the vicious text messages. She was arrested in December 2022 and later pleaded guilty to two stalking counts and was sentenced to 19 months to five years in prison, per UpNorthLive.

Jill, Dave and Owen all spoke about their experiences in the 2025 Netflix documentary Unknown Number: The High School Catfish, which was released on Aug. 29.

“To me there was enough time in the two and a half year span to stop doing what she was doing and she chose to continue,” Jill said at Kendra’s sentencing in 2023, according to 9 and 10 News. “At that point, my empathy kind of falls off. She saw the damage she was causing and just continued on with it.”

So, where are Owen McKenny’s parents now? Here’s everything to know about Jill and Dave McKenny and how their lives changed after their son was cyberbullied.

Jill and Dave McKenny are Owen McKenny’s parents

Owen was raised by Jill and Dave McKenny in the tight-knit community of Beal City, Mich. The couple had an established group of friends, but got close to Kendra and Shawn after Owen began dating their daughter, Lauryn, in seventh grade.

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At the time that Lauryn and Owen began dating, both parents approved of the other’s child and enjoyed traveling to sports matches together and bonding afterward over bonfires.

Jill and Dave McKenny’s son, Owen McKenny, was cyberstalked on and off for almost two years

Jill and Dave’s lives were turned upside down for nearly two years when Owen and Lauryn began getting cyberbullied by various unknown numbers in October 2020. Both Lauryn and Owen were just 13 years old when they received their first aggressive messages berating them about their relationship.

Although the messages briefly paused, they picked up in quantity and hostility around September 2021. The kids were receiving anywhere from 40 to 50 texts per day. The messages were vulgar and included sexually explicit advances toward Owen, physical insults toward Lauryn and specific details that only someone close to them could know.

Both Jill and Dave got involved almost immediately and took Owen’s phone at night to read all the messages and attempt to figure out who was sending them. Jill also teamed up with Kendra to read the texts her daughter was receiving and see what they could do about the messages.

Even after Lauryn and Owen broke up, they continued getting messages that heightened in aggression toward Lauryn. Throughout the investigation, several of their classmates were named as potential suspects.

Jill and Dave McKenny tried in vain to solve their son’s case

For nearly two years, Jill and Dave worked with Lauryn’s parents, Beal City High School and the police to figure out who was cyberstalking Owen and Lauryn. Jill also became closer to Kendra in hopes that they could put their minds together and figure out who was harassing their children.

In the documentary Unknown Number: The High School Catfish, Jill explained that they got together most nights to review the texts and felt “support” as a duo. Jill also closely monitored her son, since she was afraid that something could happen to Owen as a result of the threatening messages.

Although Jill worked closely with local authorities and the high school, all the parties struggled to find the perpetrator because the texts were coming from random numbers that were generated by an app.

After nearly two years, the local police contacted the FBI, and Jill handed over Owen’s phone. They also provided them with all the phone numbers of everyone they knew, and the FBI eventually found the IP address of the person sending the messages, which led them to Kendra.

Jill explained in the documentary that she initially didn’t believe the FBI and was convinced that there was no way Kendra could do that to her and their children.

However, after the authorities approached Kendra in August 2022, she confessed to the cyberstalking. She was arrested and charged with two counts of stalking a minor and two counts of communicating with another to commit a crime in December. She pleaded guilty to the stalking charges and was sentenced to 19 months to five years in prison in April 2023.

Kendra was released from prison on parole on Aug. 8, 2024. She has since shared her side of the story in Unknown Number: The High School Catfish.

Jill McKenny felt betrayed by Kendra Licari

After it was revealed that Kendra had been sending Lauryn and Owen the vicious texts, Jill explained that she felt betrayed by her close friend.

“I can’t ever get that feeling out of me. Just the disgust and the betrayal this woman we allowed into our lives and our house and our kids lives, and you just can’t imagine what that felt like,” Jill said in the Netflix documentary.

The mom of two was unable to confront Kendra from the time of her arrest to her sentencing, so Jill spoke to her for the first time while sharing her victim impact statement in April 2023.

“I will never forget the sick feeling that overcame me the day we found out,” she said in the courtroom. “Hurt, anger, betrayal, sadness all hit me at once. I have waited years for this moment, the day that you could look me in the eye and tell me, ‘Why was all of this worth it?’ ”

Jill later reflected on the moment in the Netflix documentary and said that “it felt good” to finally confront her and “ask her why” she sent the messages, even though she feels she will “never get the true reason.”

Jill McKenny initially thought Khloe Wilson was the perpetrator

In the midst of the years-long investigation, the police, the high school, the McKennys and the Licaris looked at several people who could potentially be sending the harassing messages. Among the suspects was Khloe Wilson, a classmate of Owen and Lauryn.

The families began to suspect Khloe after some of the messages’ details seemed to implicate her. To add fuel to the fire, Lauryn and Khloe didn’t get along, and the latter had a close friendship with Owen.

After Jill and Kendra raised their suspicions to the police and the high school, officials brought Khloe in for questioning, and she denied any involvement. However, Jill remained convinced that Khloe was behind the messages and allegedly texted her off Owen’s phone asking why she was behind the texts. Khloe later submitted her phone to the police, who reviewed it and dismissed her as a suspect.

“I do feel guilty about Khloe — placing blame on her or her family,” Jill said in the documentary. “We just, at that point, were going off of any information that we had.”

Khloe and her parents, Craig and Tami Wilson, appeared in the documentary where they admitted that they were still upset with Jill for “inviting” the ordeal into their lives.

“Khloe missed a whole godd— year of what should have been some of the best memories of her life,” Craig said in the documentary. “[It was] a whole year of people pointing the finger at her [and] being grilled by her parents.”

Where are Jill and Dave McKenny now?

Jill and Dave continue to live in Michigan with their daughter, Macy. Both parents frequently share photos on Facebook of the family attending sporting games together, spending holidays together and going on vacations.

Owen continued studying at Beal City High School before graduating in May 2025 and committed to Hope College in Holland, Mich., to play baseball, according to FieldLevel.

Meanwhile, he has not spoken to Lauryn since her mom’s arrest, and Jill and Dave also don’t appear to keep in touch with the Licaris. As to why Jill thinks Kendra sent the aggressive messages to Owen and Lauryn, she suggested that Kendra was “obsessed” with Owen.

“I think she became obsessed with Owen, which is hard being a mom and that she’s a grown woman, but I think that there was some level of relationship that she wanted to have with Owen that obviously is not acceptable at her age,” Jill said in the documentary.

The mom added, “If you look at how she treated him and how she glorified him, and she would go out of her way to do anything and everything for him or just to be noticed by him. She would randomly just text him and try to keep a connection with him. She came to all of his sporting events even after Lauryn and him broke up. This is disgusting.”