389: Haley Beck, Athena Strand, Anna Kepner & Bahamas Mystery
Serialously with Annie Elise
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🗓️ 23 April 2026
⏱️ 70 minutes
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This week on Headline Highlights: Major updates have emerged in the death of Celeste Rivas Hernandez as d4vd has been arrested and charged. Haley Beck, a teacher and sister of influencer Noah Beck, has been accused of grooming and having a sexual relationship with a high school student. Anna Kepner’s stepbrother has officially been indicted by a grand jury in connection to her death aboard a cruise ship last year. In the trial of seven-year-old Athena Strand, who was abducted and killed by a delivery driver in 2022, jurors are now hearing emotional and disturbing evidence as they decide whether her admitted killer will face the death penalty or life in prison. Lynette Hooker vanished after falling overboard in the Bahamas, and investigators are now scrutinizing her husband’s account amid delays and inconsistencies. And Makayla Rene Settles’ father remains charged, and prosecutors are continuing the case despite her being declared brain dead and unable to testify.
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| 0:32.2 | Hey, true crime besties. Welcome back to an all-new episode of Serialistly. |
| 1:01.7 | Thank you. besties, welcome back to an all new episode of Serialistly. Hello, hello, hello, Welcome back to an all new episode of Serialessly and happy Thursday. |
| 1:07.3 | Happy Thursday, everybody. I have to say, not only this week, but last week, there has been so much activity in the true crime world. I was out last week. It was my kid's spring |
| 1:12.8 | break. And so I was, you know, trying to just decompress, put my mind in like a not dark place. |
| 1:19.4 | But there were so many updates coming out left and right. And so today, we not only have so much |
| 1:25.8 | to talk about, but it probably will lean on being a little bit |
| 1:28.9 | longer of an episode because there's just so much to go over. And just to give you a little bit |
| 1:34.4 | of a, you know, I don't know, a little snack of what we're going to be talking about today. |
| 1:39.8 | I've seen your DMs. I've seen your comments. I know you all want my take on the Haley Beck situation, |
| 1:46.2 | which is beyond appalling and also very, very cringe. Also going through the Athena Strand trial |
| 1:53.4 | and what that means. We first covered that case back in 2022 together. Everything happening with |
| 1:58.5 | the Bahamas mystery. Anna Kempner's stepbrother, David, |
| 2:03.7 | D4VD, which I actually did like an imprompt to live stream earlier this week when their |
| 2:08.7 | press conference was happening. There's just so, so much to go over. And I also want to follow |
| 2:15.4 | up a little bit to last week's Thursday episode regarding Michaela Settles and talk through that a little bit as well. |
| 2:22.7 | So I think we just should get started. And joining me today is Amy Heller. |
| 2:29.3 | Hello. Hello. Welcome back as well. Welcome back to you. Thank you. Thank you. You know, I was at the happiest place on earth. I don't know if that's what they called Disney World or if that's just what they call Disneyland, but Disney World. Okay. It was pretty happy. I know. You said it far exceeded your expectation, which coming from you, I feel like that's a big statement. Look, I'm not going to be trading pins anytime soon, but are you the newest Disney adult? I'm not. But I will say this. We have thought about getting Disney passes for even Disneyland here. |
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