FL - Anna Kepner, 18, dies aboard Carnival cruise ship traveling from Miami to Caribbean, FBI launch probe, 7 Nov 2025

[tricia]

From what I have read AK was in an inside cabin #8447. Attached a picture of the deck plan and a picture of the room. 8447 is to accommodate 2 guests and is not an adjoining room. Since all of the children were minors my guess is each of the parents booked a separate room stating 1 adult would be in each room with either of the children. Once onboard you go to guest services and request additional keys for each room then you can have everyone sleep wherever you want. My guess is AK and her 16 year old step sibling were in this room that only accommodates 2 and the younger child was with the parents and probably slept on the sofa in their room.

Hi @JenniD.
Can you please post your source for the cabin number? I can't seem to find where the cabin number has been revealed. I see that it was a stateroom, but I can't find where it says the actual cabin number.
Thank you.

 

[Stratocaster]

Autopsy reports today?

 

[Gemmie]

Autopsy reports today?

Supposed to be.

autopsy results from the medical examiner are expected on Thursday, which could explain how Kepner died.

Birth mother says she learned Central Florida daughter died on cruise ship via online search

"I found out through Google," said Heather Wright, the mother.

www.wesh.com

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

Was this the last morning or the day prior to the last morning?

I'm really confused. When did housekeeping discover the body? I thought it was turnaround day when everyone had to be out of their staterooms fairly early. Something else that's baffling are reports that AK had been beaten. How on earth did this go unnoticed by passengers in adjacent cabins? You can hear conversations through prefab walls. How could anyone not hear someone being beaten?

 

[Tortoise]

I'm really confused. When did housekeeping discover the body? I thought it was turnaround day when everyone had to be out of their staterooms fairly early.

All I know is that the discovery was made on the Friday morning, and the boat didn't dock until the Saturday. I watched a news segment right near the beginning which said that they wouldn't have raised a helicopter to remove her from the ship, because she was already pronounced deceased.

What I don't know however is if the ship had been due back on the Friday but was delayed while they decided how to handle the situation on arrival back in port? Or not, as the case may be.

 

[Gemmie]

All I know is that the discovery was made on the Friday morning, and the boat didn't dock until the Saturday. I watched a news segment right near the beginning which said that they wouldn't have raised a helicopter to remove her from the ship, because she was already pronounced deceased.

What I don't know however is if the ship had been due back on the Friday but was delayed while they decided how to handle the situation on arrival back in port? Or not, as the case may be.

I believe the ship was due back Saturday.

Anna Kepner died aboard the Carnival Horizon cruise ship at 11:17 a.m. on Friday, Nov. 7, according to the Miami-Dade Medical Examiner.

The ship was already on its way back from its Caribbean destinations. It arrived at Port Miami on Saturday morning.

Anna Kepner's stepbrother, 16, a 'suspect' in Florida teen's death aboard cruise ship: Court filing

The 16-year-old stepbrother of Anna Kepner, the Florida teenager who died aboard a Carnival cruise ship, is being investigated as a possible suspect in the teen's death, according to a new court filing in an unrelated family case.

www.fox35orlando.com

 

[TwoBlueJays]

I'm thinking poor Anna was assaulted and strangled by the suspect. We shall see with autopsy. Moo

 

[Bethan]

Kepner, 18, had been sharing the Carnival Cruise ship cabin with her brother, 14, and her 16-year-old stepbrother — who is now a suspect in her death.

Slain Carnival cruise teen's brother unknowingly slept feet away from her dead body: report

The younger brother of slain Florida cheerleader Anna Kepner unknowingly went to sleep just feet away from his dead sister — after the boy noticed she wasn’t in their cruise cabin but…

nypost.com

A cleaning crew had discovered Anna’s body crammed under her bed — which was next to bunk beds her brothers were sharing.


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Anyone know what the images are on the jacket the boy on the right are? TIA

I think the logo is ‘Costa del Mar’

COSTA Costa C Wave Short Sleeve

COSTA Costa C Wave Short Sleeve Features• Regular adult fit• Printed graphic• 6OZ 100% Cotton• Machine wash cold, inside out, with like colors. Tumble dry low. Iron inside out on low setting. Do not use bleach. Do not dry clean.

chaosfishing.com

 

[gnsndr33]

Im trying to figure out how the cabins next door didn't hear anything? The walls are very thin. I can always here everything going on in cabins next to me. Last cruise i could hear a couple talking most of the night. I could understand every word! You can hear when people are walking down the halls. Unless she was drugged and didn't fight back i find it hard to believe no one heard anything.

 

[tara83]

Im trying to figure out how the cabins next door didn't hear anything? The walls are very thin. I can always here everything going on in cabins next to me. Last cruise i could hear a couple talking most of the night. I could understand every word! You can hear when people are walking down the halls. Unless she was drugged and didn't fight back i find it hard to believe no one heard anything.

Maybe they were out doing something else. I took one cruise and didn't spend much time in my cabin but out exploring and doing activities.

 

[Megnut]

I'm really confused. When did housekeeping discover the body? I thought it was turnaround day when everyone had to be out of their staterooms fairly early. Something else that's baffling are reports that AK had been beaten. How on earth did this go unnoticed by passengers in adjacent cabins? You can hear conversations through prefab walls. How could anyone not hear someone being beaten?

I agree with others, hallways and staterooms were probably a ghost town during that time frame.

I'm going to guess that housekeeping discovered missing sheets and looked for them under the bed.

Another victim. How do you bounce back from that?

Not just the horrifying discovery but on a cruise ship, CARNIVAL.... like Disney on water ... supposed to be a happy place, only to see the impact from the worst of what humanity has to offer.

Traumatic.

JMO

 

[Cloudydiamond]

From what I have read AK was in an inside cabin #8447. Attached a picture of the deck plan and a picture of the room. 8447 is to accommodate 2 guests and is not an adjoining room. Since all of the children were minors my guess is each of the parents booked a separate room stating 1 adult would be in each room with either of the children. Once onboard you go to guest services and request additional keys for each room then you can have everyone sleep wherever you want. My guess is AK and her 16 year old step sibling were in this room that only accommodates 2 and the younger child was with the parents and probably slept on the sofa in their room.

I haven't read about this cabin# (please post where you read that), but I read today that said she had her own bed and the boys shared the bunks. There are no murphy beds in this room from what I can see.
Slain Carnival cruise teen's brother unknowingly slept feet away from her dead body: report

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

Maybe they were out doing something else. I took one cruise and didn't spend much time in my cabin but out exploring and doing activities.

Whatever happened to Anna must have happened in the stateroom where her body was found. I doubt that the stepbrother carried a body back to the stateroom from elsewhere on the ship.

 

[Gemmie]

Im trying to figure out how the cabins next door didn't hear anything? The walls are very thin. I can always here everything going on in cabins next to me. Last cruise i could hear a couple talking most of the night. I could understand every word! You can hear when people are walking down the halls. Unless she was drugged and didn't fight back i find it hard to believe no one heard anything.

Likely they were still at dinner, off swimming, in the casino, bar, etc. I'd think most people wouldn't spend a whole lot of time in their cramped rooms, and off enjoying all a cruise ship has to offer. JMO

 

[tara83]

Whatever happened to Anna must have happened in the stateroom where her body was found. I doubt that the stepbrother carried a body back to the stateroom from elsewhere on the ship.

I meant the people in the next room might have been out.

 

[Arkay]

IMO—-

Unless this step-MURDERER chooses to confess and explain, we will not know what prompted him into such a heinous act.

Anna wasn’t feeling well, she went back to their mutual room, TH entered the room at some point, Anna was killed and stuffed under the bed with a feeble attempt to hide her body beneath.

He left the room and obviously she didn’t.

What caused this????

Was there longstanding animosity between them due to the family dynamic? Did they have some kind of precipitating argument?

Did he have a burning crush on her and couldn’t resist and she fought him off at first, then he had to silence her?

Was he drunk? Was he high? Was he hallucinating?



The autopsy will give us the how, but only that piece of crap can tell us the why.

And so far the mommy, his actual mommy, is trying to shield him.

I dread that the whole “he is a minor” situation is going to protect him even further.

Just my musing.

 

[Lebowski]

Somehow I thought SA was a given in this case.

me too. i believe it's been reported that her body was nude. and concealing SA is a common motive with murders of young women.

 

[steeltowngirl]

Another revision has been made to Anna's obituary. T.H. is no longer listed among the siblings.

She leaves behind a family who adored her endlessly. Her father and stepmother Christopher and Shauntel Kepner, her mother Heather Wright, her Memaw and Pepaw Barbara and Jeff Kepner, her siblings Andrew, Alex, Connor, Cody, Kylie, and Brooke; her Uncle Drew Kepner (Gina) and family, Uncle Greyson Robinson (Harley) and family, and a large extended family who loved her immensely.

Obituary information for Anna Marie Kepner

View Anna Marie Kepner's obituary, contribute to their memorial, see their funeral service details, and more.

www.northbrevardfuneralhome.com

 

[GailAnne]

I'm thinking poor Anna was assaulted and strangled by the suspect. We shall see with autopsy. Moo

I think the chances are slim that the autopsy will be made public anytime soon.

 

[Gemmie]

Another revision has been made to Anna's obituary. T.H. is no longer listed among the siblings.

She leaves behind a family who adored her endlessly. Her father and stepmother Christopher and Shauntel Kepner, her mother Heather Wright, her Memaw and Pepaw Barbara and Jeff Kepner, her siblings Andrew, Alex, Connor, Cody, Kylie, and Brooke; her Uncle Drew Kepner (Gina) and family, Uncle Greyson Robinson (Harley) and family, and a large extended family who loved her immensely.

Obituary information for Anna Marie Kepner

View Anna Marie Kepner's obituary, contribute to their memorial, see their funeral service details, and more.

www.northbrevardfuneralhome.com

Good lord. They change that obituary as often as they remarry. JMO!