Overview

• Released on August 29, the feature-length documentary quickly moved into Netflix’s most-watched movies and is driving fresh discussion of the case.
• Investigators detail how subpoenas to a number-masking app, Verizon records and IP analysis attributed an onslaught of messages that once seemed untraceable.
• The documentary features new interviews with teen victim Lauryn Licari, her then-boyfriend Owen, local police and an FBI liaison, as well as the central figure in the case, whom the director cautions viewers to treat as an unreliable narrator.
• Coverage recounts that the harassment spanned from 2020 into 2021 with dozens of abusive texts per day and culminated in a conviction that brought a prison term followed by parole and contact restrictions.
• Motive remains unresolved, with the film raising theories from FDIA-like behavior to an unhealthy fixation, but no clinical diagnosis is established.