13 things about Weidman, Michigan’s Kendra Licari

Kendra Gail Licari is a resident of Weidman, Isabella County, Michigan, United States. Weidman is around 16 miles away from Mount Pleasant, Isabella County.

BIOGRAPHY

Licari is a mother of one. She and her former husband Shawn Paul Licari are the parents of Lauryn Licari.

Kendra is an alumna of Central Michigan University in Mount Pleasant. Here are 13 more things about her:

1. She is also known as Kendra Gail Newbill.
2. She has a background in information technology.
3. Aside from Weidman, she has lived in other parts of Michigan including Beal City, Mount Pleasant and Waterford.
4. She met Shawn while she was attending Central Michigan University.
5. She worked as a girls’ basketball coach at Beal City High School in Mount Pleasant while Lauryn was attending the school.
6. In 2007, she gave birth to Lauryn.
7. In 2019, her daughter Lauryn started dating Owen McKenny, who was also born in 2007.
8. In 2021, while not telling Shawn and Lauryn that she was unemployed, she cyberbullied Lauryn and McKenny using an an app that generated new phone numbers for every message to mask the source.
9. In 2022, she was arrested and divorced by Shawn, who won full custody of Lauryn.
10. In 2023, David Kramer served as one of her defense attorneys.
11. In 2024, she was released from prison.
12. She and Lauryn appeared in Skye Borgman‘s 2025 documentary “Unknown Number: The High School Catfish”.
13. On July 16, 2025, she turned 45.

TIMELINE

Kendra is 5’8″ tall. Her registered weight is 120 pounds.

2020

• In October 2020, her daughter Lauryn and McKenny received suspicious texts from an unknown number.

2021

• In September 2021, Lauryn and McKenny started receiving a daily barrage of threats and vile insults from unknown sources.

2022

• In April 2022, Bradley Peter, a police officer from Bay City, Bay County, Michigan, served as liaison to the Federal Bureau of Investigation and found out that the internet protocol (IP) addresses used to send the threatening messages to Lauryn and McKenny belonged to her. When confronted with the evidence, she admitted to committing the crimes.
• On August 22, 2022, she started counseling of her own accord, according to Kramer.
• On December 12, 2022, she was arrested and charged with one count of obstruction of justice, two counts of stalking a minor and two counts of using a computer to commit a crime. That day, she was arraigned and released on a $5,000 bond.

2023

• In March 2023, she pleaded guilty to two counts of stalking a minor; in exchange so Isabella County prosecutor David Barberi dropped three additional charges filed against her, which were obstruction of justice and two counts of using a computer to commit a crime.
• On April 26, 2023, she appeared in court in Mount Pleasant before Judge Mark Duthie who ordered her to spend 19 months to five years in prison.

2024

• On August 8, 2024, she was released from prison.

2025

• On August 29, 2025, Netflix released “Unknown Number: The High School Catfish”, in which she explained why she cyberbullier Lauryn in 2021.