A new true crime documentary has just been released on Netflix titled, ‘Unknown Number.’ The twist at the end is so unexpected and shocking that people start making TikToks of their friends and family’s reactions.

The premise: Lauryn and Owen are thirteen year olds navigating a middle school romance until they get put into a group chat with an unknown third number. The texts start off silly.

“Best day ever! Only one of you got voted on homecoming court – this is epic! LMAO!”

They quickly escalate in severity and occurrence; sometimes up to 50 harassing text messages a day for roughly two years.

“Owen loves me and I will always be the girl he loves. He will be with me while your lonely ugly ass is alone. I fucking own Owens dick. Cry more you fucking jealous bitch.”

Who is sending these messages? Why do they want Lauryn and Owen to break up so badly? Why does it take the authorities two full years to finally catch the sender?

Those were just a few of the many questions netizens still had after finishing the documentary...

Rotten Mango was able to secure a never before seen case file that is nearly one thousand pages long.

We discuss these exclusive details along with the sender’s possible motives, theories, and answers to some of the most asked questions.

This is everything the new documentary ‘Unknown Number’ didn’t tell you about the real life case.

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July 4th, 2023 a 19 year old guy from Brazil, named Pedro, goes viral. Pedro’s got a bob.

He’s also just been arrested for child endangerment and is somehow connected to another group in Brazil that was arrested after planning to attack a Lady Gaga concert.

They wanted to go there, kill everyone and perform satanic rituals and sacrifices for everyone to see.

Then a 14 year old in Sweden gets arrested for attacking a woman with a knife.

During his arrest the only statement he makes is, “terror is not about age.”

In Australia a 28 year old man gets arrested.

In Romania, another teenager faces arrest after making 450 bomb threats to schools, hospitals, and government entities in the US.

Is this a butterfly effect? Where one persons actions set off a chain of events that set off another persons actions?

Is this some sort of trend?

How are they all connected?

The FBI defines this organization as a terrorist extremist group.

They call themselves the 764 cult.

Run by a bunch of teenagers in their parents house…

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The story was simple. Perhaps, a little too simple. 

Rebecca says she pulled into the parking lot of the sports store with her 7 month old son, Emmanuel. 

She went to get him from the back but a creepy man walked up to her, said “hola,” knocked her out, and stole her son. 

A tragic situation. But what if it never even happened?

There are so many questions that don’t make sense if her story is true - 

Rebecca claims she didn’t see the man at all before he knocked her out. She says he came up from behind her. But how did she get punched in the middle of her face where she now has a black eye if he came up behind her?

Also if her black eye is from the kidnapper punching her in the face - why are there reports that family members saw her with a black eye weeks before the abduction?

How come she keeps using past tense when referring to her son?

And why did she making missing child flyers in an effort to find her son but disconnect her phone so that no tips/sightings would actually go through?

But most intriguing - how come nobody saw her with a baby that day? The day she claims her baby was abducted?

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Ikbal's mother has been trying to get in contact with her daughter for over an hour at this point. Ikbal had been dealing with a stalker for a few years and her family were frantic. 

One more try. 

Ikbal’s mother dials for her daughter.  

Click. 

Someone picks up the phone, but the response is not from a 19 yo teenage daughter. It’s a low, quiet voice; her stalker is on the other end. He says 15 words and hangs up. 

“Don’t worry. Your daughter is in good hands. The girl is sleeping in peace now…” 

A little later, the same day, a video goes viral on Turkish social media - specifically Discord. 

A woman screams ‘Ikbal’ as she’s held back by a crowd of people. Clear as day in front of her, in the middle of a busy street is her daughter’s decapitated head. 

A second video goes viral. 

A boy, 19 yo as well, jumps from the edge of a building with a rope around his neck. 

October 4, 2024 three 19 year olds die in the same city. Their deaths all connected and viral on Discord. 

Until it goes dark.

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It will be their first time seeing each other in 20+ years. The last time they saw each other was when they broke up after college. Now, so much has changed. 

He’s gotten out of prison for killing his childhood abuser. She’s started her own business and moved on with her life. Maybe this is a bad idea. Maybe they have nothing in common anymore. Maybe it’s a college fling and they should leave it alone. 

After all, they never even said a word to each other for 25 years. 

But when they see each other for the first time in that coffee shop. They’re back to college again. 

She looks down and notices a briefcase. 

“Do you bring a briefcase to all your dates?”

He chuckles because inside that suitcase is proof. Proof that for the past 20 years he has never stopped thinking about her.

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What happened that day in that little house in the woods is not a debate.

The evidence is all there. The blood, the wounds, the dead man lying on the floor of the living room.

That night while the homeowner was watching TV - Clark Fredericks walked in, slashed at him with a hunting knife, stabbing him all over his chest, before finally slitting his throat.

It’s a bloody killing. There’s blood splattered and smeared all over the room.

Detectives have so many questions for the killer -

Like why did he kill him?

Why did he go and spit on his bed before leaving?

Did he think that he was going to get away with this?

What was the reason?

And does he regret it?

Today, we’re getting answers to those questions. This is our interview with Clark Fredericks.

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It’s a little strange for a eulogy to go viral especially when it’s not dedicated to a politician or celebrity that’s passed, but this eulogy is for the joint funeral of a couple Kristin and James Brock. Killed in their sleep while their two daughters slept just a few doors away.

The killer is still on the loose.

Kristin’s eldest daughter gives the closing line of her eulogy, “I love you guys so, so much…I’m sorry.”

A relative who is present at the funeral will later recall the teenager’s cadence - how it was one of the weirdest things they have ever witnessed.

What is that voice they’re doing?

It sounds like crying but not a single tear…

Afterwards, the teenager, whose 5 year old sister was the one to find their parents’ bodies, goes down the line of relatives repeating the phrase, “I’m sorry.”

Why is 17 year old Sarah Patrick apologizing to everyone when it was her mother and stepfather that were killed?

Five months later and a digital footprint of tiktoks will give the police enough evidence to make an arrest.

Authorities accuse Sarah Patrick. Could the teenage daughter who recited a eulogy for her deceased parents really be a killer performing a eulogy for her murder victims?

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July 5th, 2025 a predator in Nanjing, China is arrested. He’s been nicknamed, ‘Uncle Red’ and his face gets plastered on the news.

Finally. The community can breathe and go about their daily lives, right? No. Netizens instead start a boycott and it works.  

No future travel into or through Nanjing.

Gyms are shutting down. No one wants to visit. Some residents are ashamed to have an Nanjing address.

Suddenly the biggest online diss you can throw at someone on Chinese social media is telling them that their husband or father is from Nanjing.

It’s clear that after Uncle Red’s arrest, nothing and nobody is the same… but how the hell is an entire city impacted by one man’s arrest?

For that, all you have to do is log onto Chinese social media and you’ll see it. I’m talking, screenshots, gifs, full videos, memes, AI parodies of Uncle Red’s crimes...

Over a thousand graphic videos that captured hundreds of Nanjing residents in their most intimate moments between them and a partner.

They had no idea Uncle Red was recording them.

And they had no idea that the partner participating in the videos with them was actually Uncle Red too.

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Almost exactly a year before John O’Keefe is found in the snow outside of Boston detective Brian Albert’s home,  Sandra Birchmore is found dead in her apartment in the middle of a blizzard.

In her phone are thousands of messages between her and a police detective that indicate he is the father of her unborn child. But of course, it’s never that simple.

For one, he’s married and his wife is about to give birth to their third child.

And two, he legally, shouldn’t be in a relationship with Sandra.

Nobody was supposed to find out that he had been grooming and assaulting her since she was 15 years old, a grade school cadet apart of his police explorer’s program.

Now that she’s dead - everything’s about to come out into the open right? Not exactly. 

When Canton PD and Massachusetts State Police investigate Sandra’s suspicious death, they rule her manner of death as a self exit. It would take the FBI 4 years to get involved and make an arrest. 

From first glance, it appeared Sandra Birchmore’s connection to Karen Read ended with the fact that both crimes took place in the same town. But  when Karen Read’s defense team requests unredacted files from Sandra Birchmore’s investigation…netizens begin digging. 

Many of the same exact officers that are going after Karen Read are the same ones saying Sandra Birchmore did this to herself.

What are they all hiding?

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Karen Read claims she did not kill her boyfriend. She dropped him off at a friend’s house for a party and he was found the next morning, deceased on the front lawn. 

The party goers say that he never came inside which has everyone believing Karen Read ran him over with her car. 

But she says that never happened. 

Then how do you explain the 40+ pieces of HER car tail light that were found at the scene?

Well, it’s simple. 

She says she was framed. For murder. 

Those tail light pieces were allegedly planted by shady cops that want her to go down. 

Law enforcement disagree, providing video evidence that nobody touched her car and nobody could have ever placed tail light pieces at the scene. Nobody believes Karen Read.

Until it’s revealed that the so called CCTV footage from inside the police station… is altered. 

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