Key Insights

What did Kendra Licari say about the texts she sent to Lauryn and Owen?

Kendra told detectives on August 10, 2022, according to Main’s report, that she did not send the original batch of messages that her daughter and Owen received in October 2020, but rather “she just fed off from it and began to send them” in September 2021. She “got caught up in sending the messages,” the report stated, “and it just continued.”

In Unknown Number: The High School Catfish, Kendra mentioned that she started her own texting campaign to try to catch who was allegedly harassing her daughter in the first place.

“I was sending messages in the hopes that they might send back asking, ‘Is this so-and-so?'” she said in the series. “I started with the thought, ‘We need some answers.’ And then it just kept going.”

Kendra also stated that trauma she experienced as a teenager fueled her desire to protect her daughter from harm at all costs.

“As [Lauryn] started getting older, I had things that were suppressed come forward,” Kendra said in Unknown Number. She explained, “I wanted to try to control the outcome of her journey. I was afraid of letting her grow up. I was scared of what could happen to her.”