Stepbrother Tied to Anna Kepner's Killing Through her Cellphone | Crime Alert 06.10.26
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🗓️ 10 June 2026
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Summary
16-year-old Timothy Hudson first became a suspect in his stepsister's murder when surveillance footage placed him using the exact trash can where the teen girl's phone was later recovered--smashed to pieces. Two weeks after moving to a new Florida neighborhood, a 50-year-old woman is mauled to death by two dogs the owner knew were dangerous and prone to escape. Sydney Silvagni reports.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
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| 0:05.4 | Crime alert, hourly update. |
| 0:07.5 | Breaking Crime News now. |
| 0:09.2 | I'm Sidney. |
| 0:10.9 | Chilling new details are emerging from the tragic November 2025 murder of 18-year-old high school senior Anna Kepner aboard a carnival cruise ship. |
| 0:19.3 | Federal court transcripts have just revealed exactly how FBI |
| 0:22.6 | agents zeroed in on the prime suspect, Anna's own 16-year-old stepbrother, Timothy Hudson. According to |
| 0:29.1 | testimony from FBI agent Andrew DeVall, the biggest break in the case came from a device Anna's family |
| 0:34.5 | said she was never without, her cell phone. Hudson allegedly tried to |
| 0:39.0 | destroy the phone, smashing the screen and dumping it in a trash can on the opposite side of the |
| 0:43.6 | ship, but he couldn't destroy the digital trail. A crew member found the battered phone and turned |
| 0:49.0 | it into the ships lost and found. Despite the heavy damage, the FBI managed to download its |
| 0:53.9 | contents, giving them a digital |
| 0:55.5 | map of the cover-up. By tracking the phone as it pinged off four different ship routers over 20 minutes, |
| 1:01.5 | the morning after Anna's death, agents cross-referenced the locations with ship surveillance cameras. |
| 1:07.0 | The footage placed Timothy in all four spots. He was even caught on camera standing by that exact |
| 1:12.6 | trash can for 22 seconds before returning to his room. Adding a haunting detail to the timeline is Anna's |
| 1:19.1 | missing Apple Watch. While the watch itself was never recovered, agents determined it stopped |
| 1:24.3 | recording her vitals between 7.50 and 10 p.m. the night before the phone was |
| 1:29.0 | dumped. Timothy Hudson has been indicted by a grand jury and due to the severity of the crimes |
| 1:34.4 | will be charged as an adult. He faces charges of murder and aggravated sexual abuse, carrying |
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