The Kuykendall Family Phone-Stalker Mystery

In 2007, an unknown caller harassed and threatened a teen girl, and her family for months using their own phones.

Nicole Henley
Of Misdeeds and Mysteries
8 min readMay 21, 2019

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A 16-year old girl named Courtney Kuykendall randomly began receiving texts from her friends from her home in Fircrest, Washington in 2007. Upon looking at these texts, she’s met with messages from her friends, asking her why they had gotten text messages from her simply saying “gay.” Now, one could be mistaken for thinking it was a dumb, immature prank on Courtney’s part, except for one problem: she did not send those texts, at least not herself. Left, mildly confused at what they were talking about, she brushed it off and thought nothing of it. Neither she or anyone else involved could have imagined how far these strange occurrences were about to get.

Not long after that Courtney, as well as her friends and family ALL, started receiving threatening text messages and phone calls from an unknown person who they all later referred to as “Restricted” (named so after the word that appeared on their Caller ID whenever these calls happened.) As soon as Restricted began their calls, they would regularly threaten to kill or rape their human targets, attack the schools they attended and even threatened to kill their pets. The messages got to the point of coming…

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Nicole Henley
Of Misdeeds and Mysteries

Writer of true crime, unsolved mysteries, and marvels of history. Lover of movies, books, cats, and anime.