Alleged Cruise Ship Killer Finally Sees the Inside of a Jail Cell | Crime Alert 06.16.26
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🗓️ 16 June 2026
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Timothy Hudson surrenders to U.S. Marshals in the wake of reversed decision to enforce pre-trial detention citing 'clear psychopathy.' Waiter shot while trying to stop a dine-n-dasher from skipping their bill. Fast food employee chased, threatened, and STABBED, for handing over the wrong order. Sydney Silvagni reports.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:03.4 | Guaranteed human. |
| 0:05.4 | Crime Alert, hourly update. Breaking Crime News now. |
| 0:09.3 | I'm Sidney. |
| 0:11.3 | A horrific cruise ship investigation has taken a major turn as a teenage suspect is finally |
| 0:17.2 | in federal custody. |
| 0:19.1 | On Monday, 16-year-old Timothy Hudson surrendered to U.S. Marshals. |
| 0:24.1 | According to court documents, the surrender was ordered by Judge Edwin Torres, coming exactly |
| 0:29.4 | one week after prosecutors moved to revoke the teenager's pretrial release. Hudson faces adult |
| 0:36.1 | charges of murder and aggravated sexual abuse for the November |
| 0:40.1 | 2025 death of his 18-year-old step-sister Anna Kepner aboard the Carnival Cruise Line vessel, The Horizon. |
| 0:47.9 | The tragedy occurred during their family's first blended vacation following the marriage of Hudson's |
| 0:53.3 | mother, Chantelle Hudson, |
| 0:55.0 | to Anna's father, Christopher Kepner. According to court filings, Anna was last seen returning to the |
| 1:01.1 | stateroom she shared with Hudson and her 14-year-old half-brother on the night of November 6th. |
| 1:06.9 | She was found dead under her bed the next morning. The Miami-Dade Medical Examiner's Office determined her cause of death to be mechanical |
| 1:14.8 | asphyxiation due to homicide. |
| 1:17.5 | Here's how the evidence stacks up against stepbrother Timothy Hudson. |
| 1:21.6 | Prosecutor state one vaginal swab was 120 sextillion times more likely to match Hudson than a stranger. A second swab was |
| 1:30.0 | 1.2 septillion times more likely to match him. Additionally, CCTV and phone data show Kepner |
| 1:36.5 | entering their shared cabin and never leaving. Even worse, her phone's location data mirrored |
| 1:41.8 | Hudson's movements right before it was found smashed in a trash bin. |
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