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Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan

MURDER on Cruise Ship: Cheerleader, 18, Found Stuffed Under Bed, Who Killed Anna?

Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan

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True Crime

4.81.8K Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Anna Kepner is on the Carnival Horizon on a 6-day cruise with her father, stepmother, and other family members.

Feeling sick at dinner, she excuses herself and goes to her cabin. When she doesn't show up for breakfast, the family goes to her cabin, but she is gone. A massive search of the 14-story floating city of 4,000-plus people is conducted without success.

At around 11 a.m., a maid finds Anna wrapped in a sheet, stuffed under a bed, and covered with a life jacket. Dead.

Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss the difficulty of investigating a death at sea on a cruise ship and try to find the truth of what happened to the 18-year-old cheerleader on the trip of a lifetime.

 

 

 

Transcribe Highlights
00:03.30 Introduction - claustrophobic

02:08.57 18-year-old found dead on cruise ship 

05:12.17 Story has changed since it broke

10:18.26 FBI Involved 

15:30.26 Info used in first reports

20:16.47 Who declared "death"

25:07.30 FBI responds with a lot of manpower

30:30.25 Who will be tasked with releasing information 

35:41.67 Where does investigation start?

39:52.30 Conclusion - update coming soon

 

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:05.5

Bodybacks with Joseph Scott Moore.

0:10.2

I'm claustrophobic.

0:11.9

I'll fully admit that.

0:13.5

I truly am.

0:14.4

You know, that's one of the reasons I had no desire.

0:18.2

I had a couple of buddies that joined the Navy.

0:20.3

I had one buddy that actually was a submariner, a nuclear guy, and very bright, bright off the scales.

0:30.1

And he now works in the nuclear engineering industry.

0:37.2

But you know, there's something about being in the Navy, certainly being on a sub where you're so confined.

0:44.2

That's why I like the Army so much.

0:46.2

I'm not saying I'm the bravest guy, but I always knew that I had some place to escape to on land.

0:51.0

I ain't nowhere to run on a ship.

0:58.1

And to be honest, it's not something that really ever attracts me, but there are thousands and thousands of people every year that board

1:05.9

cruise ships out of various ports. And certainly those ports have become more varied now even my own

1:12.6

hometown of New Orleans there are several cruise lines leave out of the dock that's immediately

1:17.8

adjacent to the French Quarter but you know predominantly we're talking Florida right

1:23.9

and people go for a variety of reasons but I think that what people really want to do

1:30.7

is escape. To get out there, leave their cares behind, engorge themselves on lovely food, perhaps,

1:39.8

have drink, sit by the pool, and just be left alone.

1:48.3

Maybe I just stated my ideal vacation, I'm not sure.

1:52.1

But there is one family right now that has questions.

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