340: Family of Anna Kepner Speaks Out as Stepbrother Is Named Suspect in Cruise Death
Serialously with Annie Elise
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🗓️ 27 November 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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This week on Headline Highlights: Melodee Buzzard’s mom is no longer facing false imprisonment charges in the unrelated case against her. Major developments in the D4vd investigation, as he’s now officially named a suspect in the death of Celeste Hernandez. Morgan Geyser, who said she killed her friend because Slenderman told her to, briefly went missing after disappearing from her group home. Tragedy struck aboard a Carnival cruise when 18-year-old Anna Kepner was found dead in her cabin. And in Kansas City, a woman was discovered on her front porch with a gunshot wound reportedly inflicted by her boyfriend.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, true crime besties, welcome back to an all new episode of Serialistly. |
| 0:07.0 | Hello, hello, hello, and welcome back to an all new episode of Serialessly with me, |
| 0:30.3 | your host, Annie Elise. |
| 0:31.8 | And this last week has been, honestly, like Mr. Toad's Wild Ride. There has been so much going on. Not even just |
| 0:40.7 | so many new cases, which is like disturbing and unsettling in and of itself, but a lot of updates |
| 0:47.2 | to cases that either happened a long time ago and we're finally getting updates or like these |
| 0:52.4 | crazy breaking news updates in cases that I know |
| 0:56.0 | so many of us have been following. So I'm going to as normally, as normally, I don't think |
| 1:01.2 | that's a word, as usual, I'm going to start with the updates to some cases that we've already |
| 1:06.3 | been discussing together and then we're going to get into the new cases. Now, before I jump into all of that, |
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| 2:16.4 | feel that a deep dive is going to be on the horizon here once more information comes out about her mom. |
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