'Mystery Male' Eyed as Potential Suspect by Timothy Hudson Defense | Crime Alert 06.05.26
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 5 June 2026
⏱️ 6 minutes
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We're learning from court transcripts that investigators tested a second male cruise passenger as a potential match to DNA recovered from Anna Kepner's rape kit. Pennsylvania volunteer firefighter confesses he's behind three weekend fires. Promising college football player shot day after his graduation ceremony. 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. |
| 0:07.5 | Breaking Crime News Now. |
| 0:09.1 | I'm Sidney. |
| 0:10.6 | We are looking at a massive development in a federal murder case. |
| 0:14.3 | Newly unsealed court transcripts have revealed a potential twist in the trial of Timothy Hudson, |
| 0:19.1 | the 16-year-old accused of assaulting and |
| 0:21.6 | murdering his 18-year-old step-sister, Anna Kepner, aboard the Carnival Horizon back in November |
| 0:27.1 | 2025. |
| 0:28.5 | Anna's father, stepmother, and other family members join her for a six-day carnival cruise to |
| 0:33.4 | the Western Caribbean. After their last day at Port and Coszumel, Mexico, Anna heads back to her room |
| 0:38.6 | early, telling family members she isn't feeling well during dinner. The next morning, Anna |
| 0:42.9 | doesn't join her family for breakfast and isn't answering her door. Her family begins a |
| 0:47.1 | frantic search for the teen on the 14-deck, 4,000 passenger ship. The kept her family frantically |
| 0:53.3 | searching for Anna when a housekeeper makes a horrifying |
| 0:56.0 | discovery. |
| 0:57.1 | The maid starts to gather linens for laundry but notices the sheet missing off the bed. |
| 1:02.2 | Making the bed, she notices a pile of life jackets stuffed underneath. |
| 1:06.8 | Removing the life jackets, she discovers the missing sheet wrapped around Anna's body. |
| 1:12.2 | Now, if you thought this was just an open and shut tragedy, a 145-page detention hearing transcript |
| 1:17.9 | just threw a wrench into the narrative. |
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