New details emerge in Anna Kepner's death on cruise ship.

Police Off The Cuff/Real Crime Stories

Bill Cannon Police off the Cuff/Real Crime Stories

Law Enforcement, Crime, True Crime, Military

4.4 • 870 Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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It wasn't until the next day, Saturday, November 8th, as the Carnival Horizon was sailing back to Port Miami, that the grim truth came to light. A housekeeper, doing their routine duties, entered Anna’s stateroom and made a horrifying discovery. Anna wasn't just deceased; she was found under the bed. Some reports, citing anonymous law enforcement sources, have painted an even more disturbing picture, suggesting her body was wrapped in a blanket and deliberately concealed. Imagine the shock of that moment. On a vessel designed for joy and relaxation, a young woman’s life had ended under deeply suspicious circumstances. When the ship docked at Port Miami, it was no longer just a cruise ship returning from the Caribbean. It was a potential crime scene. And waiting at the port were agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

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0:00.0	Jesse, good morning.
0:02.7	Craig, good morning.
0:03.7	When that carnival cruise ship returned to this port, the FBI responded to the scene.
0:09.0	But nearly two weeks later, the Miami-Dade Medical Examiner still has not announced
0:14.3	Anna Ketner's cause of death.
0:16.6	Meanwhile, new details are potentially emerging.
0:21.4	This morning, the mystery deepening around the tragic death of a teenager aboard a cruise ship.
0:27.4	18-year-old Anna Kepner died on the Carnival Horizon ship earlier this month, the case gaining
0:33.1	national attention.
0:34.8	And now a document tied to some of Kepner's family coming to light.
0:39.0	NBC News has obtained a filing from this week by an attorney for the teen stepmother,
0:43.2	Shantel Hudson, in an ongoing unrelated case about Hudson's past marriage.
0:48.2	The attorney writing, an extremely sensitive and severe circumstance has arisen,
0:53.1	saying that Hudson and her minor children
0:55.0	were on the same Caribbean crews as Kepner. And writing Hudson has been advised through discussions
1:00.7	with FBI investigators and her attorneys that a criminal case may be initiated against one of her
1:06.3	minor children, a former police chief for the Miami PD says investigators are likely going through
1:11.7	the ship's surveillance cameras, looking for evidence and to help build a timeline of the possible
1:16.9	crime. They're going to be able to isolate the image of this young lady and run that against
1:22.7	all their video streams to see where she was and when and with who. And so that's a lot to unpack.
1:30.0	CBS News reports that Kepner's body was found under her bed in her state room,
1:34.8	according to multiple law enforcement sources. NBC News has reached out to the FBI on the report.
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