(NewsNation) — Netflix’s new eye-opening documentary, “Unknown Number: The High School Catfish,” has only been out for two weeks, but it has the world buzzing.

The documentary explores the true story of mother Kendra Licari, who cyberstalked her daughter and her daughter’s boyfriend by sending text messages from an unknown number for nearly two years.

Licari was arrested in 2022 and ended up being charged with two counts of stalking a minor and two counts of communicating with another to commit a crime. She was sentenced to 19 months in prison as a result in March 2023.

The nearly two-hour program is full of shock and deception and has opened up an entire new conversation about cyberbullying.

Why did Kendra Licari stalk her daughter and her boyfriend?

Kendra Licari began sending aggressive texts to her daughter, Lauryn, and Lauryn’s boyfriend, Owen McKenny, in the fall of 2020 to try to break them up.

A majority of the messages were extremely crude and repeatedly told Lauryn Licari that she wasn’t fulfilling McKenny sexually. Sometimes they ranged from 40 to 50 messages a day. The elder Licari acknowledged that her behavior was a result of previous trauma that she hadn’t processed after she was raped at age 17.

“As my daughter was hitting those teenage years, I got scared,” said Licari in the program. “I was afraid of letting her grow up, wanted to protect her and keep her safe.”

Licari also revealed she had the time to send the texts at the time because she didn’t have a full-time job. She lied to her husband, Shawn Licari, and said she had been let go of her IT job at Ferris State University, when in fact she had quit.

In the doc, she said, “I was sending messages in hopes they might send back, asking, ‘Is this so-and-so?'” to try and get some answers about who the anonymous texter was. “And then it just kept going,” said Licari.

Bill Chillman, former Beal City Schools superintendent, said Kendra Licari was showing signs of Munchausen syndrome, in which an individual falsifies, creates or exaggerates having symptoms of an illness that they don’t really have.

How did Kendra Licari get caught?

The Isabella County Sheriff’s Office in Michigan became involved in the investigation in January 2022 before the Federal Bureau of Investigation joined months later.

Bradley Peter, the FBI liaison on the case, was able to track back to Kendra Licari by uncovering that some of the texts sent were through an app that disguises phone numbers. Following that clue, he submitted a search warrant to the app, which contained Verizon numbers.

Submitting another search warrant to Verizon, Peter found Licari’s number kept showing up.

“I get this crazy phone call while I’m at work, and it’s the sheriff saying that they figured it out,” Shawn Licari said in the documentary. “I’m like, ‘Sweet. Finally, this is gonna be over with.'”

He was told his wife was behind it all.

Shawn Licari told his wife she needed to leave and take time away from Lauryn. The couple divorced months after her arrest, and Shawn Licari was granted full custody of Lauryn.

“Just makes me sick,” Shawn Licari said in the doc. “She stabbed me in the heart — shot me in the heart — and threw it away.”

How did Kendra Licari’s actions impact Lauryn and Owen?

Lauryn Licari and Owen McKenny broke up after two years, once the cyberstalking became too much to handle.

The decision was made in the hopes that the messages would stop and out of fear of their stalker.

After they split, Lauryn still received texts discussing suicide.

Lauryn and McKenny no longer keep in touch.