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Police Off The Cuff/Real Crime Stories

The continuing investigation into the Anna Kepner murder aboard the Carnival cruise ship.

Police Off The Cuff/Real Crime Stories

Bill Cannon Police off the Cuff/Real Crime Stories

Law Enforcement, Crime, True Crime, Military

4.4870 Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Good evening, everyone, and welcome to Police Off the Cuff, Real Crime Stories. Retired NYPD Sergeant Bill Cannon, a 27-year veteran of the NYPD, discusses the slow progress in the Anna Kepner **homicide** case, which remains largely **unsolved**. He provides insights into the ongoing **investigation** and the challenges faced by **law enforcement**, referencing updates from **fbi files** as they seek closure for this difficult real crime story.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Good evening, everyone, and welcome to Police Off the Cuff. Real Crime Stories.

0:06.3

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

0:12.1

You know, the case that we've all been following with Anna Kepner, it's really moving extremely slow.

0:20.2

And I think we all want some closure to this case.

0:26.6

And the FBI is always the investigative body that definitely moves the slowest in these cases.

0:35.3

And I'm not blaming them when they put this case together and when they

0:41.4

finally do pull the trigger on this case, I believe there will be an arrest and it's not going

0:48.5

to be a surprise to anyone. It's just we're all, I think, a little bit frustrated in the amount of time

0:57.5

that this case has taken because, let's face it, this happened. Well, it'll be nearly a month.

1:05.6

The 7th of December will be a month this occurred on November 7th. And the mystique involved in this is the fact

1:15.7

that it did happen on this cruise ship, this carnival cruise ship. And the involvement of family

1:23.1

is really what's shocking to a lot of us.

1:29.1

For 18-year-old, Anna Kepner was supposed to be a family vacation

1:33.4

on a luxury cruise ship.

1:35.6

But as we know, the trip ended with a horrifying discovery

1:39.9

that would launch a massive FBI investigation.

1:44.3

She was found in her state room,

1:48.2

concealed under the bed.

1:51.8

News reports on the medical examiners' findings

1:55.0

stated that the cause of death

1:56.6

was mechanical asphyxia by another person.

2:01.3

Well, the crime or the term homicide simply means death caused by another.

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