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Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary

Eric Faddis Reads the Defense Moves in the Anna Kepner Cruise Ship Murder Case

Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary

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🗓️ 24 April 2026

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Anna Kepner's stepbrother pleaded not guilty. Former prosecutor Eric Faddis joins Tony to read the defense strategy from the outside looking in.

Five questions covering the plea entered without the defendant present, the defense team's own request for the adult transfer, the judge-selection strategy tied to the same judge who granted release in February, the prosecutor's seven-day trial estimate, the "C.K." cellphone data extraction that appears to come from Anna's father's phone, and the one thing a prosecutor watching this defense team should find genuinely concerning heading into trial.

Every procedural choice this defense has made so far tells a story. Eric, who has sat on both sides of a federal courtroom, walks through all of them.

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0:00.0

This is Hidden Killers Live with Tony Bruske and Robin Dree.

0:07.8

Let's go to another case.

0:12.4

Anna Kempner, the cruise ship murder, this is another horrible case that appears to be getting worse by the moment.

0:21.2

Anna Kempner's stepbrother just pled not guilty to her murder.

0:25.1

He is 16, not guilty to the federal charges he's saying.

0:28.3

He's charged with first-degree murder and aggravated SA in a federal courtroom.

0:33.5

And right now he's not behind bars.

0:35.5

He's living with a relative wearing a GPS monitor and

0:38.4

working at a landscaping business um his defense team is arguing he should stay right where he is

0:43.6

it's working out great the prosecution has turned over their entire evidence file the defense

0:48.9

is making strategic moves to tell you that they are not stalling they're preparing for a

0:53.6

fight the question is what kind of fight eric fattis defense attorney is with us along with rob moves to tell you that they are not stalling. They're preparing for a fight.

0:55.7

The question is, what kind of fight?

1:00.2

Eric Fattis, defense attorney, is with us, along with Robin Drake, retired FBI special agent.

1:03.1

Eric, let's dive into this a little bit.

1:07.7

When you look at everything this defense team has done so far, requesting the adult transfer themselves, fighting to keep him out of custody, entering the plea, without him even being in the room.

1:13.1

He wasn't in court during the plea the other day. It was a document they handed over.

1:17.3

What are those moves telling you about how they plan to actually try this case and defend their client?

1:23.9

It sounds like they're being very protective of their young client here.

1:29.9

They're trying not to expose him to a lot of publicity, to a lot of, even to the courtroom process at this point, perhaps because they have something up their sleeve, they believe.

1:43.5

You know, my apprehension is there is going to be a specific type of mental health defense here,

1:50.4

which I can get into whatever.

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