Anna Kepner Update: Brother Testifies Anna’s Father Used Chokehold on Him — Disturbing Pattern Revealed
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Tony Brueski
4.2 • 612 Ratings
🗓️ 9 December 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Anna died from a bar hold. An arm across the throat. Two bruises on her neck. A technique that takes minutes to execute. So where does a 16-year-old learn something like that?
In a December 5th custody hearing in Brevard County, Florida, we may have gotten the answer. Andrew Hudson — the 18-year-old older brother of the suspect — took the witness stand and testified that his stepfather Christopher Kepner once put him in a chokehold during a custody dispute. Held him against the car seat when he tried to leave. That's sworn testimony. Under oath. In a courthouse where the FBI is investigating a homicide committed by the same method.
This video breaks down everything that came out of that hearing: the chokehold testimony, the suspect's psychiatric medication he skipped for two days before Anna's death, his immediate hospitalization after the ship docked, and why his own parents moved him to an undisclosed location because they decided he was too dangerous to live with the other children.
Anna's father Christopher Kepner has now spoken publicly, telling People magazine he wants his stepson to "face the consequences." The grandmother confirmed security footage shows the stepbrother was the only one seen entering and exiting the cabin. And the older brother's testimony puts a pattern of physical violence in that household on the official record.
The FBI hasn't charged anyone. But the family has already made their judgments clear.
New court date: December 17th. More testimony expected. I'll stay on this.
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| 0:00.0 | is Hidden Killers with Tony Brewski. |
| 0:02.7 | Here now, Tony Brucey. |
| 0:06.3 | This is a case with just so much wrong with it. |
| 0:10.5 | So, so much wrong with this family unit. |
| 0:17.8 | I've said it before. |
| 0:19.4 | For those of you who grew up in the 90s, early 2000s, feels like Springer. |
| 0:25.0 | It just does. And I feel bad for the people who are in this ecosystem that don't want to be |
| 0:34.4 | part of the show, but are inadvertently becoming part of the show |
| 0:37.9 | because of the poor decisions of certain actors on this show. |
| 0:45.5 | And unfortunately, it's not a show, it's life. |
| 0:48.5 | And it's a life where this girl is no longer part of it. |
| 0:53.9 | She doesn't get to be a supporting cast member, |
| 0:57.0 | breathing air anymore because of other actors. |
| 1:03.4 | It's one of those things that doesn't necessarily |
| 1:05.6 | give you any sort of closure on what took place. |
| 1:16.5 | The actions that we're about to discuss in this |
| 1:19.2 | are certainly not an excuse, |
| 1:22.4 | but they're part of the recipe, |
| 1:24.5 | as I always say in cases like this. |
| 1:27.4 | None of this is an excuse. But once you understand the recipe, as I always say in cases like this. None of this is an excuse. |
| 1:29.5 | But once you understand the recipe, you understand why, what made it to the plate, made it to the plate. |
| 1:40.8 | Anna Kempner died from a bar hold. |
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