Mother speaks out after Netflix footage shows police confront her sending daughter daily death threats
A mother who was found to have been sending her daughter daily death threats is the subject of a new Netflix documentary taking the internet by storm.
The wild Netflix doc features the first interview with her since the incident, as well as police body-cam footage showing her being confronted by police.
The documentary focuses on a young girl who, in late 2020, began receiving bizarre text messages.
Lauryn Licari and her at-the-time-boyfriend Owen began receiving numerous text messages and, in 2021, these escalated to full on regular death threats.
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Eventually this led to the FBI becoming involved and the trail lead back to Lauryn’s Mum, Kendra Licari.
The documentary, called Unknown Number: The High School Catfish, has shocked Netflix viewers on social media with its insane twists and turns as they try and figure out why Kendra did it.
Twenty-two months after the messages began, however, Isabella County Sheriff Mike Main discovered that it was actually Lauryn’s mum sending the vile messages.
Footage included in the documentary sees Main going to the family’s home to ‘try and get a confession’.
After a brief discussing with Kendra, he explains that they have found information tracing the messages back to her, saying: “The messages coming were originating from you… your number even though it was being hidden was showing up on every message.”
She then responds stating that she didn’t start the messages but did indeed send her daughter some of the messages she received. Lauryn and Owen were at times receiving up to 12 messages a day.
Dave Barberi, the prosecutor who eventually led the case in which Kendra was found guilty of two counts of stalking a minor that earned her up to five years in jail, said in the documentary that it wasn’t a ‘clear confession’, though she didn’t deny it.
The bodycam footage then shows the Sheriff informing both Lauryn and her Dad, Kendra’s at-the-time wife, Shawn Licari.
Speaking in the Netflix doc, Shawn admitted that he never imagined that it could have been the person telling their daughter to kill herself.
Shawn now lives in Michigan and has full custody of Lauryn.
Kendra speaks in the documentary for the first time since she was released from jail last year, shown in tears after the footage is shown.
She said of the day in which it was revealed she was the one sending the messages: “It was a very high emotional day in our house, a day of confusion.”
She goes on to bizarrely state: “Every single one of us makes mistakes, not a single one of us has lived a perfect life and, realistically, a lot of have probably broke the law at one point or another and not got caught.
“I know to some I’m a headline; I’m a villain I’m a bad Mum, I’m a whatever. But that’s because they know one little piece of my story, they don’t know my whole story.”
Kendra states in the doc that she was assaulted when she was around her daughter’s age at the time of the messages, and that she was scared of her growing up and so wanted to keep her close.
Viewers were not sympathetic to Kendra despite this, however, with one tweet about the documentary saying: “Why is Kendra acting as if she made a silly mistake like forgetting to pick her daughter up from school, this woman is seriously unwell how she is not in jail is beyond me.”
Unknown Number: The High School Catfish is available to watch on Netflix now.
Topics: Netflix, True Crime, TV and Film, Film, Documentaries
Michael Slavin