SPOILERS Netflix Unknown number - the high school catfish

[Heckthewhat]

Potentially one of the most disturbing documentaries I’ve watched. How could you do that as a mother to your own daughter? I am honestly baffled after watching that.

I watched it the other day, totally insane

I have just finished it and my head is spinning. How, why...I can not get my head around her telling her 15 year old to kill themselves.
My skin crawled when she was 'comforting' her daughter when the police turned up. Also trying to compare what she did with drink driving🤦

Exactly! It was definitely her from the start.

Also the way the husband storms in fuming that she has lied about her job, not the millions of texts harassing their daughter 😂

Just finished too, jaw dropping

I wondered if that's how they edited it, because he totally glazed over the texting thing and started talking about the jobs, never mind your wife is sending your child texts about how she is a bitch because she is not giving a boy bjs but let's talk about work.

Yes let our children be aware out there, stranger danger etc but as statistics show children are likely to encounter danger under their own roof by people close to them than anywhere else.

I was floored by the whole thing. Telling your teenage daughter to kill herself, calling her names about her body?! And then the fact she was sexually grooming the other poor 15 year old boy- some of those texts were vile. Then causally sits in the documentary comparing it to drink driving?!

The daughters reaction was funny too - both at the time of the arrest (she didn’t show any surprise it was her mum) and in the interviews after about still wanting to be in her life. It was all very odd

it was very weird, the complete non reaction to it. And then saying she wanted to see her mum again and loved her. Where was the anger?

Where there's shock and fear there usually is no anger. Not yet.

the excuses for it and she wouldn't have killed herself i know her. i dont think the daughter should have anything to do with her but seems lost she needs therapy

Just finished watching it.
Bloody sickening. The girl clearly still cannot mentally accept the mothers abuse. Probably easier to stick by mum than face the truth. And that will come. Either soon or if she becomes a mother herself.

Those emails from prison are manipulative to keep her close

Just watching now, it’s so weird how the police didn’t explicitly tell the daughter it was the mum, just said vague sentences, and then how the dad was flipping out about only the jobs. Are they forgetting that she bullied her, ruined her relationship and friendships and told her own daughter relentlessly to kill herself? And other constant disgusting heinous things - for well over a year?! The daughter barely reacted. The dad didn’t even seem to mention it. Did they both already know it was the mother and had kept it quiet? Or was some of that police footage cut for legal reasons maybe? It’s all so bizarre.

Hmm. As a pp said I think those initial reactions were off due to editing and also the fact that the cops didn’t really go into the full facts there and then. They probably didn’t understand the full extent of it and were shocked.

I don’t blame the daughter’s reaction to it all- keeping in touch and wanting her mum in her life because accepting the reality of who her mother is is absolutely horrifying. I agree it will come in time for her, likely when she has her own kids.

I can’t stop thinking about this because I cannot believe the things that woman was writing about her own child. Especially when you see the photographs with her face covered by a sick emoji or the comments on her body. It’s so disgusting.

She seemed to be still in denial by saying someone else started it and by making excuses saying she was doing it to catch the original culprit. So still full of lies and still deranged.

just finished this. Horrifying on so many levels.

The daughter also seems to be devoid of any real emotion…can’t work out whether she knew all all along, is traumatised or what!

Just finished this, I think the mum should have gone to jail for much longer, absolutely horrendous abuse.

I wonder if Lauren is just emotionally shut down, she did seem expressionless and I imagine the wanting to have contact with her mum is Stockholm syndrome.

She sounds completely defeated and her tone is so monotonous. That poor child

I like the ‘we knew it’ comments from the couple at the end 😬

Just watched this as well. Bizarre case. Lauryn seems pretty damaged to me, the munchausens (sp?) comparison seemed pretty accurate which is why she can’t bear the thought of not having a relationship with her mum despite everything. Although mum has been out of jail since last year and they still haven’t had contact, did I get that right?

Kendra is an Absolute psychopath and weirdly sexual to a 13 yo - should never be allowed near her daughter again

Just watching the last part of this now. I am beyond shocked. The awful things she texted her own daughter. I can’t get my head around it. I thought that whoever it was, they were sick in the head. But the person she trusted the most was doing it?! Telling her own daughter to kill herself and the terrible explicit messages. I would have to live to be over 100 to understand this.

What the actual fuck...?!

This is crazy. Lauryn's and the husband's reactions were also totally weird.

The mother clearly had a crush on Owen and that was the motivation for the whole thing, but omg the content of the messages she sent to her own daughter!! What on Earth?!

It was horrendous. At the start my first thought was “I bet its one of the parents”, but then they were all involved in the documentary so I thought “well it can’t be, because who could ever show their face after that?”

I think the dad and daughter already knew. Dad’s reaction was so weird, focussing on the job, and Lauryn’s lack of reaction, and lack of pushing for an explanation about the vague stuff the police officer was saying, it seemed like she wasn’t surprised it was her mum.

I wouldn’t be surprised if they were all involved for some sick reason. I feel bad if Lauryn didn’t know, but it was such a strange way to act after 18 months of abuse and the whole community being involved to just accept it was her mum.

And to try and make out it was to protect her DD from sexual assault. By verbally abusing her with sexual messages?! The mind boggles.

I agree that it appeared that the dad and Lauryn had figured out it was Kendra before the police did, otherwise their reaction makes no sense.

It’s one of the most insane things I’ve ever watched.