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If you’re one of the millions of Netflix subscribers who have streamed the true crime doc Unknown Number: The High School Catfish , then you already know the strange story of Kendra Licari.

For the uninitiated, here’s the deal (spoilers lie ahead, obviously):

For nearly two years, Licari’s daughter, Lauryn, and her boyfriend, Owen McKenney, were terrorized by an anonymous bully who harassed them with an endless barrage of vile text messages.

In addition to hurling insults at Lauryn, the texter would frequently instruct her to take her own life.

And the doc’s shocking third-act twist is that the messages were sent by none other than Lauryn’s mother, who — to the shock of her husband and everyone else in her community — had long ago been fired from her jo

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