High School Catfish on Netflix

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I called it from the synopsis.

I dated a guy in high school who had a similar relationship with spoiler alert. I'd get nasty letters in the USPS trying to manipulate me with lies because that's all spoiler alert had access to at the time.

Do you mean literally the person this doc is about?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Did spoiler do it thinking would keep Owen and girl dating? Make them closer?

No. Not at all. She knew they were breaking up over it. She knew Owen felt suicidal at one point because of it. None of that stopped her. It appears she is a pedo and had a thing for Owen and deep down hates her daughter.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Unbelievable.

Didn't I hear perpetrator say that they did no send the initial text messages? If I heard that correctly, was it ever determined who sent those initial text messages?

The FBI guy basically said that was a lie by the perpetrator, that perpetrators often try to "deflect" and that is a classic example.

Also as OP and others noted - zero surprise from Lauryn. Because she knew all along. 100% just like the mother of the Halloween party girl called it.

I think they don't actually know for sure about the very first texts. The article suggests she might not be lying and it's plausible those texts gave her the idea. The first texts were very limited in number (like 3-4) and a YEAR before the others started, so if they were from spoiler, she then showed self-control for a long time in between. All of which is to say that my impression is that the question is unsettled.

No.

I also disagree. They seemed to indicate it was yet more lies from the person who lies constantly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Perpetrator was keeping lots of secrets. Job loss for a LONG time and her cousin suggested that she kept some insurance money from a claim. That made sense to me because it sounded like she was out of work for years. She'd have to have some money for her husband not to notice even if she controlled it all. Maybe she did other criminal acts. She was obviously a liar and delusional.

She also went after the boy's new girlfriend so she had some attachment or obsession with him. She was probably wanting to live out a fantasy teenage life that she missed at that age or something.

The principal annoyed me to no end. Like, let's do nothing, we've already tried nothing. He did not want to be bothered.

What about all the bottles of alcohol on the dining room table during the reveal? I thought of three things: no one sits together; their family closeness is not real; she's an alcoholic; she's saving bottles for the cash value, another sign of being out of work and needing any cash.

[b]I felt bad for the people who were wrongly accused.

The falsely accused were kids! One of them was shy and didn't have a large support group. The lying nut job didn't care one bit about hurting innocent children.

I hope people who have to work with her know who she is. People like her get innocent people hurt/fired/killed. She's more dangerous than people realize.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Even if Lauryn figured out who the perpetrator was before they were arrested, I’m sure she was in denial and survival mode. She was so young and the texts were so graphic her mind may have been trying to protect her. She was and still is a child.

I do not believe for one second Lauryn was in on it.

I don't think anyone thinks Lauryn was in on it. She may have known about it at some point though. If she knew about it or suspected it, she knew enough about her mother to know the woman did what she wanted. Lauryn couldn't have gotten her to stop. Lauryn's lack of reaction at the reveal was weird. It did seem she wasn't surprised at all.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Even if Lauryn figured out who the perpetrator was before they were arrested, I’m sure she was in denial and survival mode. She was so young and the texts were so graphic her mind may have been trying to protect her. She was and still is a child.

I do not believe for one second Lauryn was in on it.

I don't think anyone thinks Lauryn was in on it. She may have known about it at some point though. If she knew about it or suspected it, she knew enough about her mother to know the woman did what she wanted. Lauryn couldn't have gotten her to stop. Lauryn's lack of reaction at the reveal was weird. It did seem she wasn't surprised at all.

Lauryn seemed to be disassociating, and at the end starts crying. Lauryn endured years of abuse (emotional, psychological and IMO sexual via those explicit texts). Relentless abuse from the ages of 13-15. And these are just the years we know about. She had no autonomy, she was a literal child with no say in where, how or with whom she lived. I don't think any kind of reaction, under these circumstances, is weird.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Did spoiler do it thinking would keep Owen and girl dating? Make them closer?

No. Not at all. She knew they were breaking up over it. She knew Owen felt suicidal at one point because of it. None of that stopped her. It appears she is a pedo and had a thing for Owen and deep down hates her daughter.

I think she literally wanted Lauryn to commit suicide, that would have been the ultimate attention seeking situation. It would have gotten her out of the way with Owen and all eyes would be on her at the funeral and afterwards. She wasn't going to ever stop until she got caught or Lauryn died. This woman is beyond sick and IMO is a real danger to society.

[Anonymous]

I think Lauryn is really dumb. She comes across as very low IQ, but also very sweet girl.

She had to have known that her spoiler was a witch. Usually abusers don't have just one target. Spoiler was probably abusing other people in that circle for years.

This is like that story of the Liz Golyar that went on one date with a guy and then proceeded to kill his girlfriend and cyber stalked him and herself for years.

https://www.netflix.com/tudum/articles/lover-stalker-killer-release-date-news

[Anonymous]

I rewatched the interview with Dad and Lauryn and her Dad are very similar. Dad is also very similar / trusting / whatever you want to call it.

[Anonymous]

Whatever she is guilty of, and I suspect plenty more than this, she is clearly someone who is deeply mentally ill. I think she needs some serious psychiatric care, like in-patient.

[Anonymous]

Lauryn's voice reminded me so much of one of my niece's. That niece is one of the sweetest people alive but clearly suffers from a learning disability of some sort (I've never felt like it was my business to ask my sister directly).

Anyway, because of the similar voices, I projected those characteristics onto Lauryn.

[Anonymous]

I don't think Lauryn knew. I think she is sheltered, lives in a small town, and is young. I think she didn't understand everything that happened. It's a hard thing to make sense of - that someone who loves you would do this. It disrupts your sense of self.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Did Lauryn and Spoiler sit in same room for Netflix? Are they talking?

There was a body camera video from during the investigation. I guess you never know how you would react in those situations, but nobody's reaction on that bodycam video was what I would expect. Too calm, maybe? Like, even if they didn't know that this specific trouble was coming at this time; they knew something was coming.

Well the police officer was being very indirect. He was talking like he was sympathetic to Kendra and so Lauren just sat in a stupor unsure of what was even going on. It is a hard pill to swallow that those sexual and demeaning messages were coming from inside her own home, and the fact that the policeman never even came out and said it directly didn't help her processing.

Heck, I was confused as hell during that whole conversation, and I am an adult who already knew what was going on. I don't understand what exactly that whole word salad was even supposed to be about. And then he just leaves all these upset people sitting there, like "Well I hope you guys can work all this out! See ya." Like ??? what?

I am also very baffled as to why they were even discussing anything with Lauryn with her abuser in the same room at that point. Like why didn't they talk to Lauryn and her father alone and clearly explain what had been going on and how they knew for a fact it was her mom? And why wasn't there a counselor or therapist present? It's not like this insane woman went from having a perfectly healthy relationship with her daughter to launching this abuse campaign and there's just nothing else to start unpacking there. Lauryn seemed like, at least at the time of filming, that she's still very much wrapped up in a toxic relationship with her mom. I hope she has a REALLY good therapist who can help her see that (if she hasn't already) and to help her process/heal from the betrayal and abuse. (I bet there have been a lot of other things throughout Lauryn's childhood too; a mother who is so heinous as to do what she did to her child doesn't just start out of no where).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think Lauryn is really dumb. She comes across as very low IQ, but also very sweet girl.

She had to have known that her spoiler was a witch. Usually abusers don't have just one target. Spoiler was probably abusing other people in that circle for years.

This is like that story of the Liz Golyar that went on one date with a guy and then proceeded to kill his girlfriend and cyber stalked him and herself for years.

https://www.netflix.com/tudum/articles/lover-stalker-killer-release-date-news

That's a mean and unnecessary statement. She was 13 when this particular incident started, and she has probably been manipulated her entire life. You sound like a bully.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Even if Lauryn figured out who the perpetrator was before they were arrested, I’m sure she was in denial and survival mode. She was so young and the texts were so graphic her mind may have been trying to protect her. She was and still is a child.

I do not believe for one second Lauryn was in on it.

I don't think anyone thinks Lauryn was in on it. She may have known about it at some point though. If she knew about it or suspected it, she knew enough about her mother to know the woman did what she wanted. Lauryn couldn't have gotten her to stop. Lauryn's lack of reaction at the reveal was weird. It did seem she wasn't surprised at all.

Parents of the the girl with long dark hair, the cop and his wife, said explicitly that they thought that the husband and the daughter were in on it.