A Florida judge confirmed at a Friday, December 5, 2025, hearing that murdered Florida 18-year-old Anna Kepner’s 16-year-old stepbrother is now officially regarded as a “suspect” in her death aboard the Carnival Horizon cruise ship in November 2025.
That revelation came during a family custody hearing, where the suspect’s biological father, Thomas Hudson, petitioned to remove his younger daughter, Anna’s half-sister, from the home shared with the stepbrother, his son, for safety. Hudson’s emergency request argued that the stepbrother’s presence in the household “put the 16-year-old’s future in jeopardy.”
