The Cruise Ship Death of Anna Kepner

This Feels Criminal: A True Crime Podcast (Formerly Killer Queens)

This Feels Criminal | Formerly Killer Queens

Society & Culture, True Crime

4.4 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2026

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

November 7th, 2025, 18-year-old Anna Marie Kepner was found dead under a bed aboard the Carnival Horizon naked and covered in life jackets.

But while investigators tried to figure out what happened in that cabin, the deeper question was already forming: How did every adult in her world fail her long before that cruise left Miami?

Because while Anna was trying to grow up, the adults around her lived by their own motto:
Conflict Rules Everything Around Me — C.R.E.A.M., get the tension. Toxic bad blood, ya'll.

And once you understand the years of instability swirling around Anna: the custody fights, the restraining orders, the rotating step-parents, the teenage babysitter who became her stepmom, the new stepbrother later named as a suspect... you start to see how the stage was set for a tragedy that should never have happened.

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0:00.0	Did you ever hear a story and think, we're not getting the full picture?
0:08.5	That's where we start.
0:10.1	On this feels criminal, we unpack crime, corruption, and conspiracy with curiosity, context,
0:16.0	and just a touch of chaos.
0:17.8	We step outside the timelines and ask better questions and explore the systems
0:21.8	behind the story, all in a voice that feels more like a friend than a reporter. Because when you
0:26.4	identify the patterns, you can't unsee how often they show up. All right, you guys, welcome
0:34.7	back to now this feels criminal.
0:38.8	Welcome.
0:39.8	If you're confused, we used to be Killer Queens.
0:42.1	It's still us.
0:43.1	Just a new name.
0:45.0	Who dis?
0:45.6	New name.
0:46.7	Same us.
0:47.4	Yeah, exactly.
0:49.6	All right.
0:50.3	And today we are talking about the cruise ship death of Anna Kepner. I have gone. I mean deep dive city on this. I'm all over the place.
1:03.4	Okay. I know headlines about it. So, I'm interested.
1:08.9	Yeah, I feel like it's one of those things that, like, a lot of people I've heard about.
1:11.6	Yeah. But oh my gosh, there are so many layers to this. Okay. I'm excited. And I might wrap a little bit.
1:21.8	Oh. And I know you're unexpected. I love it. Okay. I'm excited. Okay. So let me give you kind of a little, you know,
	...

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