'Mystery Male' Ruled Out as Match to Anna Kepner Rape Kit | Crime Alert Weekend Recap 06.06.26
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🗓️ 6 June 2026
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Here's Sydney Silvagni with some of our top stories this week:
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. U.S. officials are now treating Lynette Hooker's Bahamas missing person case as a homicide. 5-year-old Daleza Fregoso is missing in Mexico after police say her father killed her mother in Los Angeles. An accused triple murderer in Hawaii arrested after members of the public spot him hiding in a vacant field. The man accused of infiltrating former state rep C. Wesley Morgan's home and killing his daughter to access his 'survival bunker', may eventually walk free again.
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| 0:00.0 | Crime alert, hourly update. Breaking Crime News now. I'm Sidney-Silvani. We are looking at a massive |
| 0:06.8 | development in a federal murder case. Newly unsealed court transcripts have revealed a potential |
| 0:11.9 | twist in the trial of Timothy Hudson, the 16-year-old accused of assaulting and murdering his 18-year-old |
| 0:18.0 | step-old step-sister, Anna K Kepner aboard the Carnival Horizon back in November |
| 0:22.0 | 2025. Anna's father, stepmother, and other family members join her for a six-day |
| 0:27.3 | carnival cruise to the Western Caribbean. After their last day at Port and Cosmelle, Mexico, |
| 0:32.4 | Anna heads back to her room early, telling family members she isn't feeling well during dinner. |
| 0:36.7 | The next morning, Anna doesn't join her family for breakfast and isn't feeling well during dinner. The next morning, |
| 0:41.8 | Anna doesn't join her family for breakfast and isn't answering her door. Her family begins a frantic search for the teen on the 14-deck, 4,000 passenger ship. The kept her family |
| 0:47.7 | frantically searching for Anna when a housekeeper makes a horrifying discovery. The maid starts |
| 0:52.6 | to gather linens for laundry but notices the sheet |
| 0:55.1 | missing off the bed. Making the bed, she notices a pile of life jackets stuffed underneath. |
| 1:01.4 | Removing the life jackets, she discovers the missing sheet wrapped around Anna's body. |
| 1:07.2 | Now, if you thought this was just an open and shut tragedy, a 145-page detention hearing transcript |
| 1:12.8 | just threw a wrench into the narrative. Investigators revealed they found DNA from a second |
| 1:18.1 | mystery male on the victim, an out-of-state juvenile traveler labeled Minor Witness 2, whom Kepner |
| 1:24.3 | allegedly had consensual sex with earlier during the cruise. |
| 1:28.2 | The defense is jumping all over this, arguing that prosecutors are just making assumptions about the timeline. |
| 1:34.0 | But before you think this mystery mail is a viable suspect, the FBI already tracked him down and ran the tests. |
| 1:40.6 | Here's how the evidence stacks up against stepbrother Timothy Hudson. |
| 1:45.6 | Minor witness, too, |
| 1:51.2 | was completely excluded from the specific DNA profile linked to the assault. Prosecutor state one vaginal swab was 120 sextillion times more likely to match Hudson than a stranger. A second |
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