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Foreign. Hello and welcome to this episode of Kennedy Saves the World. If you need a show that is tense and stomach churning but still kind of escapist, and if you haven't seen Unknown Number on Netflix, you have to see it because it is absolutely essential. Insane. My older daughter called me from college and she had told me that she and her roommates had watched this documentary and of course she, she spoiled it. So I'm going to spoil it for you. If you don't want to know the big twist and unknown number, then listen to this with sound down. Thank you. But if you don't mind because maybe you won't watch it, but you really should, here's what happened. So. So my older daughter called me, she's like, you have to watch this. And then I asked my younger daughter, have you seen this? And she said yes. And I had no idea what it was about. She was, the show was recommended to her. It's not really a show, it's like 90 minutes. It's a 90 minute documentary and she didn't know the twist. And it is arguably more satisfying if you don't know it. But I'm going to tell you anyway. So there you go. Because I love you and that's why we're friends. So here you go. A 13 year old girl named Lauren started getting these nasty text messages in a group chat she had with her boyfriend Owen. And you're like, why did a 13 year old have a boyfriend? It's like, who knows? They were in the middle of nowhere in Beal City, Michigan, small town, small school, and she had a boyfriend, whatever. They start getting these nasty messages directed at Lauren telling her that Owen doesn't love her anymore, she doesn't want fulfill his needs. They got very violent and sexual pretty quickly. And this girl was bombarded with these awful, nasty text messages. They said sometimes they would be 40 and 50 a day, sometimes even more than that. Just one after another from an unknown number. And of course the number would change because of course there's an app where you can mask your number and you know, know. They couldn't figure it out for the longest time who it was, but it was telling Lauren that Owen was cheating on her. So she starts to think, you know, look at her boyfriend going, are you really cheating on me? And he's like, no, I love you, I swear. And turns out he wasn't. And then there were so many intimate details of her life and so many specifics that were revealed in these nasty text messages that she's like, it's someone who knows me who's sending this. So after months and months and months of being harassed and bullied and being called a flat ass anorexic and accusing her boyfriend of cheating on her and calling her ugly and telling her that, you know, she shouldn't be on this earth and she should kill herself. Just horrible, horrible, targeted, violent, awful things. And then, you know, eventually it was like the, the suggestion that the person sending the text messages that if Lauren didn't kill herself, that the person sending the message would kill her, would, would do it because, you know, the world would be better off without, without Lauren in it. So of course this girl is pulling her hair out. She cannot figure out why she's being targeted. Rumors spread at school. She's embarrassed, she doesn't want to go to school. She wakes up every morning crying. She and her boyfriend eventually break up before they even figure out who it is. So they go to the principal and the principal can't figure it out. So they put cameras up all over the school. They eventually go to the sheriff's department and all the parents get involved because there was another girl at school, Chloe, who was like popular and athletic and maybe a rival to Lauren on the basketball team. And so the person who's sending the messages is like, I scored 12 points in the basketball game this week and only one person scored 12 points. And they're like, it's Chloe. And Chloe's like, why would I write that about myself? Chloe's like, you know, I, of course Lauren and I weren't close friends. I was friends with her boyfriend, but I didn't send these messages. And Chloe's like going insane because now everyone's getting mad at Chloe. The sheriff is involved and the sheriff's like, chloe, we know it's you. And of course Lauren's parents get involved and Owen's parents get involved. They're very protective and defensive because for some reason their son is being dragged into this non stop harassment. So the, the sheriff is at his wits end. They cannot figure out who has done this again. They put up cameras all over the school trying to time when these text messages were sent and seeing if kids walking down the hall were on their phones. And they're like, maybe we'll catch them that way. But it turns out teenagers are always on their phones when they're in the hallway walking around. So that became an impossibility. So they had to do a forensic digital dive in order to figure out who this was. So the FBI gets involved through a local liaison and you know they are having the damnedest time as well. None of it is making sense. And they're like, it should be Chloe, but maybe it's not Chloe. So they run the numbers that have been generated by an app and they go back to one geolocation. They go back to one phone. It is an app that one person has and that their number, their location hits every single time with these unknown numbers. Guess who it was. I'm gonna let you guess. I can't let you guess for too long because I have to keep this podcast rolling. Do you think it was Chloe? It wasn't Chloe. Do you think it was a principal? It was not the principal. Do you think it was Owen's mom? It was not Owen's mom, but that would make a little bit more sense. Don't go anywhere more. Kennedy saves the world right after this. It was Lauren's own mother. Lauren's mother Kendra, who looks like a mole crawled up a dog's ass and died, was sending 40, 50, 80 text messages a day, nasty messages to her daughter, telling her daughter to kill herself and telling her that she's a flat ass, anorexic and ugly, and that the mom is claiming, like, I'm cheating with Owen, I'm giving him BJ's, I make out with him. And something about creamy. It's so disgusting. And you're like, how the hell can a parent do this to their own child? It has not been. The world has not collectively gathered to despise one person since that Carole Baskin and Tiger King. It has been that long. It has been five years that we have really been waiting for a collective villain. And this woman is it. And her mom sat down for an interview in the documentary. The documentary is done very, very well. It's. It's directed by a woman named Sky Boardman. And you really should watch it because it will blow your mind. And even now that you know that Kendra, Lauren's mom, was the perpetrator, of course you're going, why? Why would someone do that to their own child? Why would they push their child to the brink of. Of possible suicide? And why would they claim to be in love with this kid? She doesn't really answer that. I couldn't believe she sat for this documentary. The mom. I mean, I was just seething. When I found that out. I paused it and screamed. And my younger daughter came into the room. And I was like, this is insane. And she was like, imagine watching that. And you don't think it's a mom. You don't know it's a mom. And then you find out it's the mom. And it was, you know, it was a national news story. It was this high school catfishing story. And. And the mom ended up going to prison. She should still be in prison. She is an awful person. So one of the most compelling parts of the documentary is when they finally figure it out. The FBI goes to the sheriff in Isabella County, Michigan, and is like, dude, it's the mom. He's like, it's the mom. Like, everyone's like, it's the mom. It can't be the mom. Moms don't do that. She did it. So the sheriff goes over to her house, and it's then you realize that the mom is a total nut job sociopath because it's dawning on her that she's caught. But still, you can see the wheels turning in the back of her mind that she's either hiding something or she thinks she's gonna get out of it. But the moment where the sheriff confronts the mom and you see it all on the body cam footage, that is worth the watch. And the most heartbreaking thing is when the sheriff has to call the dad and tell him, like, sean, I'm sorry I'm at your house. I hate to tell you this. And of course, Sean is probably thinking the worst, like, oh, my God, is my daughter okay? Has. Has this horrible stalker finally pushed her over the edge? And he's like, sean, it's your wife. She's the one who's been sending the text messages. And Sean comes over, and that is the most heartbreaking thing in the world. For him to realize what his wife has done to his own daughter, their only kid, and his wife has been lying to him the entire time. So then they lost their home. They lost everything. They were in such financial distress because the mom was doing all the finances and she wasn't working. She was lying about working, telling the husband, we're totally fine. We are aces. They were not. They got evicted from one house, moved all their stuff into storage, didn't pay the fee for the storage unit, and they took everything they had. It was awful and heartbreaking. So you end up feeling pretty bad for the dad. But the crazy thing is, the mom had been telling him that she was working at this new job. She was online harassing her own daughter for eight hours a day. She was putting together all of these posts targeting her own daughter, sending her vile, sexual, violent death threats, Disgusting, unimaginable stuff. Instead of working, like, can you. Can you even conceive of that level of immorality and fraud, it is almost impossible. But do please, you know, watch it. I haven't ruined it for you. The documentary has done so well and, you know, know all of these facts are revealed pretty brilliantly. So it's worth a watch. It is going to disturb you. You will want to barf. You will hate Kendra, you know, and. And then she made some excuse about being sexually assaulted when she was a teenager. And then watching her own child be a teenager. Still not a justification for telling your own kid she's ugly, you're screwing her boyfriend, and that she should go kill herself. Absolutely unforgivable. So when Lauren sat for her first interview in the documentary, she still loved her mom. She still wanted to forgive her mom and have a relationship with her because of the disgusting codependency and the psychological manipulation. A year later, the documentarian went back and interviewed her again and you could tell that her personality had changed, which is really tragic. And you know, Lauren is 18 now and it just, it's so sad that this has been what should have been a wonderful part of her adolescence. Maybe at times confusing, maybe at times awkward, but, you know, to have the world know what a horrible person your mother is and the evil that your mother displayed having been fully projected at you, that's really tough. But, you know, watch this documentary for the second interview they do with Lauren because it is pretty compelling. So go watch it. That's your homework in adoration of you always. This has been Kennedy saves the world. I'm Kennedy. 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