Why NO Arrests in the Anna Kepner Cruise Ship Murder?
How Men Think
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🗓️ 8 January 2026
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
It’s been 2 months and one day since the asphyxiated body of 18-year-old Anna Kepner was found under the bed of her cabin aboard a Carnival cruise ship during a family vacation. While Kepner’s death has been classified as a homicide, no arrests have been made and no official suspect has been named, by the FBI. However, court documents in a separate custody case clearly state that Anna’s 16-year-old step brother is a suspect in her death. Amy and T.J. go over the most recent text messages between the step brother’s parents that were shown in court, that offer quite a bit of insight into where this case stands and what has happened to Anna’s stepbrother since Anna’s death.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:06.1 | Hey there, folks. It is Thursday, January 8th, and almost exactly two months ago. |
| 0:13.6 | 18-year-old Anna Kepner was found dead aboard a carnival cruise ship. |
| 0:19.1 | And here we are two months later, no arrests and very few |
| 0:23.7 | answers as to what happened to her. And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and T.J. |
| 0:28.4 | Where we have been looking back, robes on some very high profile mysteries, deaths, investigations |
| 0:35.6 | that don't have a lot of answers. This one, we don't have a lot of answers |
| 0:39.0 | either, but this has been a fascinating case where little things start leaking out here and |
| 0:44.9 | there to where we're starting to form a picture, at least, it seems, of what might have |
| 0:49.8 | happened. That's right. Because this happened in international waters, it's the FBI's jurisdiction. And the FBI is notoriously tight-lipped. They do not show their hand. They do not give any indication as to where their investigation is headed. And so the only reason why we have any information is because there is a custody dispute going on between |
| 1:13.5 | Anna Kepner's stepmother and her ex-husband involving this stepbrother, who we now know |
| 1:20.9 | is a suspect, only because of court documents in this custody case. |
| 1:25.8 | All right, folks, did you get all that? I know the story well, and I was still confusing. |
| 1:29.8 | No, not confusing. |
| 1:30.8 | Everything was 100% right. |
| 1:32.2 | That is what this case has been. |
| 1:34.0 | Very confusing. |
| 1:34.7 | Let's go back to last November, Anna Kepner, 18 years old from Titusville, Florida, went on a |
| 1:39.9 | cruise. |
| 1:40.3 | She had her dad, stepmom, the stepmom's two kids, and her grandparents. So the whole family |
| 1:47.5 | is together. And Anna Kepner is sharing a room with one of the steps, both step siblings, including |
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