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The 16 year old step brother of Anna Kepner slept in same room.

Police Off The Cuff/Real Crime Stories

Bill Cannon Police off the Cuff/Real Crime Stories

Law Enforcement, Crime, True Crime, Military

4.4870 Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

The death of Anna Kepner is a tragic story that peeled back the curtain on a dream vacation to reveal a potential nightmare. An 18-year-old girl, full of life and with a future of service ahead of her, lost her life in a tiny cabin surrounded by thousands of people. Her body was then hidden, her death a secret for hours as the ship sailed on.

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0:00.0

Hello, everyone, and welcome to police off the cuff real crime stories.

0:12.0

I'm your host, retired NYPD Sergeant Bill Cannon, a 27-year veteran of the NYPD.

0:18.4

The story that we've been covering and a story that's really bothersome to

0:22.6

most people, of course, is the death on a cruise ship of Anna Kepner, an 18-year-old woman who was on

0:32.8

a carnival cruise with her family. Now, what's bothersome about this case is that implicated in her death

0:42.2

is her 16-year-old stepbrother. And as more facts and circumstances come out about this case,

0:50.9

it gets even more disturbing. And one of the things that was really just released

0:56.7

is the fact that the 16-year-old stepbrother and the 14-year-old brother were staying in the

1:05.5

same room as 18-year-old Anna. I'm a parent. Does anyone else see a problem with that? A 16-year-old Anna. I'm a parent.

1:11.7

Does anyone else see a problem with that?

1:14.3

A 16-year-old boy whose hormones are raging with a very attractive 18-year-old step-sister,

1:22.5

I see a big problem with that right away.

1:26.3

And if these parents didn't, then they're not fit parents.

1:31.8

So part of this investigation, an 18-year-old cheerleader

1:35.2

goes on a dream vacation with her family on a cruise ship.

1:41.0

But late one morning, while thousands of guests are enjoying the sunshine, Anna Kepner

1:47.5

dies. She dies. Well, how did she die? The most chilling part? For hours, as the ship sailed on,

1:55.2

her body lay hidden under a bed in her stateroom one knew how is that possible the fbi is now trying

2:06.5

to answer that exact question so you know this is uh very very bothersome an 18-year-old girl anna Kepner had everything to live for. And as I said,

2:21.8

this is really not a who-done it. It's really not a who-done it. I think when the autopsy

2:30.2

report comes back, we're going to know the manner and the cause of death, right? The manner being

2:37.6

homicide, suicide, accidental, natural, or undetermined. I believe, from my experience, this is

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