r/netflix • u/AnotherDarnDay • 9d ago

Discussion Unknown Number High-school Catfish Spoiler

What the hell did I just watch? And what the hell was this person thinking?

I'm in shock that someone would do such a thing to their own child. And that she doesn't seem to have any focus on what she actually did.

The daughter didn't seem to grasp what her mother did when they told her but the father acted on it right away.

Was she totally jealous of her own daughter?

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u/tracebellevie 9d ago

LITTTTTERALLY it’s abhorrent, repugnant, and WILDLY inappropriate these cops. I used to be an investigator of crimes against children and let me tell you - even how they broke the news to the minor Lauren WITHOUT having an emotionally SAFE ADULT there with her for support and processing after makes me nauseous. Literally allowing the perpetrator of assault, stalking, felony harassment, and mental torture to continue touching her WTAF? And how he didn’t even DIRECT wording, dancing around the shit omg. It’s so difficult to see wide spread incompetence sometimes with law enforcement. Hell I was most impressed with the superintendent and principal in using the appropriate language and gravitas for the situation throughout. But then I don’t talk about it much, but when I needed law enforcement for any of my cases it was typical for me to remind them I needed HELP from them NOT for them to escalate or minimize the situation. Just wow.

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u/TigreImpossibile 8d ago

Sherriff Main was a bloody moron. As the months ticked over I was like, why the fuck aren't there warrants for everyone's phones, ip addresses, data from the phone companies... this is serious harassment and sexual in nature?

Then finally, fuck, 20 months later... the FBI is finally involved and I nearly fell out of my chair realising who did it all.

Poor Lauryn. She's such a sweet, beautiful girl. I hope she gets a lot of therapy, she will need it to be OK after this 💔

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u/WeedGreed420 8d ago

this is exactly what i said. i guess maybe im wrong and uneducated but i dont know why it took a year and a half and the fbi to finally get warrants for the phones ip

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u/TigreImpossibile 8d ago

It should have happened after the 3rd or 4th month in my opinion, or at least when the messages turned super nasty telling the kids sexual things and telling Lauryn to kill herself.

I understand why it didn't go to warrants sooner - Sheriff Main is not too smart and the girl's MOTHER was the one doing it. Of course she's not going to push for them to escalate and get ip addresses, etc. Maybe she even stalled them on it in some way.

They didn't tell us she works in IT until it was all revealed - my question would have been, why aren't you asking for warrants for IP addresses, you know about this stuff 🤔

That is sus alone. That's why they hid that fact from us until it was all revealed.

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u/IntrepidGarlic4361 3d ago

I thought it was really weird that they didnt look to other family members after Chloe when they inestigated the picture at the family Xmas party, should have been the next step immediately.

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u/TigreImpossibile 3d ago

Right? That should have narrowed things down significantly. No one should have been immune from suspicion - which would have seemed harsh, but is correct since look who tf it turned out to be! 🤯