Hey, everyone, welcome back to Crime Weekly News. I'm Derek Levasseur. And I'm Stephanie Harlow.

And for those of you who are just joining us on

Crime Weekly News, what we usually do over here is we'll cover crimes in the headlines or we'll

use it to give you an update on a case we've already talked about, whether it's on the main

crime weekly episode or on Crime Weekly News. Today's episode is a little bit of both. So as of June 22nd, 2006, the Anna Kepner

case is no longer just a suspicious cruise ship death investigation. It is now a federal murder

and aggravated sexual abuse case against her 16-year-old stepbrother, Timothy Hudson,

who is being prosecuted as an adult, and he has pleaded not guilty.

And this was something that we have talked about, and we speculated a little bit, although we

tried to avoid it.

But we did use reasonable deduction, right, as far as what we knew about the case at that

point and the suspicions that were surrounding the stepbrother and some of the

things that had already come out. And here we are. It is now confirmed. And there's been a lot of

videos about this. You can see that this has been a spectacle in this area where the trial is taking

place. And it's unfortunate, but I'm glad to see what it appears like, and you're going to talk about all this, what it appears like is that investigators probably had an indication of what happened, but they didn't use what some departments do in this case is to assume and just to say, yeah, you know, one plus one equals two.

It looks like they did the investigation.

They took an ample amount of time

to dot their eyes, cross their T's, explore all theories, and after vetting any possible explanation,

this is what they fell on. And they believe they have the evidence to support it or we wouldn't

be where we are. Now, if they actually do, that remains to be seen.

We know that it doesn't always work out that way. Yeah, we were kind of like, what the hell is going on? Like, this guy's like this kid's being, being let, you know, out to go and live with his old goal. He's walking around. Yeah. What's going on here? And we didn't really understand why that was happening. but we do have a better understanding now.

So to do a

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