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

[Stunned]

Cruises are relatively inexpensive in Florida, with additional discounts for Florida residents. If this family had been on cruises previously, as indicated by Anna stating how much she enjoyed the other cruise, they may have even received a comp.

Cruise lines want that ship full of people with no where to go, and nothing to do but drink cheap booze and go play in the casino. You can't lay out by the pool all of the time.

Can you get discount cruises or free cruises gambling in the casino like you can get comped rooms and such at the casinos on land?

 

[mickey2942]

Can you get discount cruises or free cruises gambling in the casino like you can get comped rooms and such at the casinos on land?

Yes. You join the "players club". Just like Vegas, the more you play...

Carnival Players Club | Casino | Carnival Cruise Line

Join the Carnival Players Club for free and earn points while playing games at the tables & slot machines. The more you play, the better it gets. Get the elevated vacation experience you deserve and book your cruise today!

www.carnival.com

 

[Stunned]

Yes. You join the "players club". Just like Vegas, the more you play...

Carnival Players Club | Casino | Carnival Cruise Line

Join the Carnival Players Club for free and earn points while playing games at the tables & slot machines. The more you play, the better it gets. Get the elevated vacation experience you deserve and book your cruise today!

www.carnival.com

Maybe the Grandparents were winning them these trips.

 

[Arkay]

Can you get discount cruises or free cruises gambling in the casino like you can get comped rooms and such at the casinos on land?

Some cruises also have expensive bingo games where the grand prize is a free cruise on their line.

 

[stonedgnome]

Maybe the Grandparents were winning them these trips.

I could see this. I work at a casino and it's most commonly elderly people that spend the most time there.

 

[Chypre]

Are there any verified forensic psychologists or other types of experts that can share what process a suspect might go through? I'm wondering if observation (sometimes weeks) in a full time residential setting is considered before charges?

 

[mickey2942]

Are there any verified forensic psychologists or other types of experts that can share what process a suspect might go through? I'm wondering if observation (sometimes weeks) in a full time residential setting is considered before charges?

Legally, law enforcement can't have someone placed in a restricted environment without charges. Especially a child.

 

[Chypre]

Legally, law enforcement can't have someone placed in a restricted environment without charges. Especially a child.

Thank you. I wonder what the system is in a situation like this.

 

[browneyes]

Bbm

I wonder if Shauntel mentioned that the three amigos were only related by a new marriage. Not unusual to place children in a room adjacent to parents, or across from, in the case of cruiseship rooms, especially since one was 18. But important detail -- opposite sex, unrelated children. If the rooms were actually booked this way, then IMO Shauntel did NOT provide the travel agent with full information.

 JMO

….and just because it’s booked that way, doesn’t mean they have to use the cabins that way. The cruise line only cares that the correct number of people are staying in the cabin. You can play musical beds if you want. This family is so lame.

 

[acutename]

Still, when your family lives in such conditions you save the money for something better, not splash it out on holidays. Unless you are as selfish and immature as these two so called "parents".

some how they have resources because it is not inexpensive to send multiple children to private school

 

[mickey2942]

Thank you. I wonder what the system is in a situation like this.

The parents can request residential setting for education. The example of violence towards a step sibling, is actually enough for a school district to not want the liability of the suspect in a regular classroom.

While he was in a private school, I doubt that school wants him back either.

So, I am not sure what his status will be for now. Probably "home schooled"? Mess for his family, that is for sure.

 

[Mauritius]

Not all people who live in trailers are "trailer trash", or even low income. In most of Florida, winters are quite mild, and a mobile home can be quite comfortable. There are many people who feel no need to have an expensive house and will live in a mobile home which allows them more resources for cars, boats, and vacations.

We do know that Anna had her own car and went to a private school, so the family doesn't appear to be too poor. We don't know, however, whether this car was for her own personal use. Possibly she was expected to provide a "taxi service" for her younger siblings and step-siblings.

I suspect the child custody hearings are more about child support payments than minor children leaving the country without both parents' consent.

We probably won't know much about family finances unless an arrest takes place. Defense lawyers are extremely expensive. if the family seeks a public defender for their minor child, financial information will become quite relevant. Even if well-off, I doubt Anna's grandparents would spend a dime for defense of someone charged with murdering their granddaughter.

There is just so much we don't know about this case. What were her stepbrother's demons? Why frequent school changes? Did stepbrother routinely crawl into Anna's bed in the middle of the night, or was this a one-time thing he did just to irritate her boyfriend? Or did her ex embellish the event? We know very little about Anna's life prior to this cruise, and even then, we only know snippets about what happened the night of her death.

Hopefully, these questions will be answered. It would not surprise me, however, if the perpetrator is found to be incompetent to stand trial and we may not get a full account.

I’ll just add, I thought I saw (sadly i believe it was in her obituary) that she was PADI certified and that her family did diving together. (I believe this refers to scuba certification.) That family hobby caught my eye, it’s a hobby that has expense, no matter how you do it (maybe similar to skiing, for perspective.) I can’t say the relevance exactly but it’s a hobby with costs.

 

[Arkay]

So, I am not sure what his status will be for now. Probably "home schooled"? Mess for his family, that is for sure.

Hopefully it won’t be long before TH is charged and his schooling will be in a juvenile jail, and if found guilty then in a prison education program.

JMO

 

[Stunned]

I’ll just add, I thought I saw (sadly i believe it was in her obituary) that she was PADI certified and that her family did diving together. (I believe this refers to scuba certification.) That family hobby caught my eye, it’s a hobby that has expense, no matter how you do it (maybe similar to skiing, for perspective.) I can’t say the relevance exactly but it’s a hobby with costs.

I'm not sure, but maybe dive classes are cheaper in Fla.. or can you get certified in the Bahamas if you spend the day there on a cruise even cheaper? I don't know. All just IMO