Anna, a high school cheerleader from Florida’s Space Coast, was on the verge of graduating in a few weeks when she disappeared. She had been on a journey aboard the Carnival Horizon with her father, stepmother, her stepmother’s two young children, and her grandparents.
Her former boyfriend has suggested that her stepbrother had an obsession with her, and Anna had expressed feeling unsafe around him in the period leading up to her death.
T.H. faced initial charges as a juvenile in February, with the case kept confidential. In a separate urgent filing, lawyers for Thomas Hudson, the stepbrother’s father, disclosed: “According to social media from the Kepner family, on February 3, 2026, the Petitioner/Father’s son, TH, was charged by the United States Attorney in the Southern District of Florida for the [redacted] and homicide of Anna Kepner.”
The filing further alleges that “immediately after the cruise, the respondent/mother and Chris Kepner expelled [the minor] from their household and neither has seen [the minor] since then.”
