Stepmother and family under scrutiny in Anna Kepner’s cruise ship death

The stepmother of a Florida cheerleader who died mysteriously on a cruise ship has filed an emergency movement to postpone a listening to in a continuing involving her ex-husband. She claims she can’t testify as a result of it might be incriminating for herself or considered one of their minor youngsters within the prison investigation into her stepdaughter’s demise.

In an emergency movement filed in Brevard County, Shauntel Kepner, previously Shauntel Hudson, requested the choose to postpone a December listening to because of the FBI investigation into the demise of Anna Kepner, who was discovered lifeless on a Carnival cruise ship on November 7.

“The defendant has been suggested by way of conversations with FBI investigators and her attorneys {that a} prison case could also be initiated towards one of many minor youngsters on this rapid motion,” Shauntel’s legal professional, Millicent Athanason, wrote to a Brevard County choose.

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Anna Kepner, her father, stepmother and a number of other siblings in a household picture. (Shauntel Kepner/Fb)

A legislation enforcement supply instructed Fox Information Digital on Wednesday that authorities have recovered surveillance footage from the cruise ship exhibiting Kepner with a “suspect” and that the FBI is reviewing hours of further footage from the cruise earlier than her demise. Authorities even have entry to room key knowledge on board the ship, the supply mentioned.

In an emergency movement for momentary reduction filed Monday, Shauntel’s ex-husband, Thomas Hudson, revealed that the couple’s eldest youngster, 18, had moved in with him after an alleged “violent altercation” between himself, Shauntel, and her new husband, Christopher Kepner, the late cheerleader’s father.

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Moreover, Hudson claims that their second son, a 16-year-old, “is now a suspect within the stepchild’s demise throughout the cruise.”

“The [16-year-old]’s future has been jeopardized by the alternatives which were made [Shauntel]” Hudson’s submitting mentioned.

The teenager’s present whereabouts are unclear. In line with the report, he has been launched and is staying with an unnamed third social gathering.

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Anna Kepner was recognized by her household because the passenger who died aboard the Carnival Horizon. (Instagram/Anna Kepner)

Hudson accuses his ex-wife of alienating him from their two youngest youngsters and states that his lack of involvement of their lives has a detrimental affect on them.

In a separate response, Shauntel’s legal professional denied that their eldest youngster had been concerned in a violent altercation and denied refusing to permit Hudson time-sharing beneath the phrases of their custody plan.

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Neither Shauntel nor Athanason responded to requests for remark. Within the movement, the legal professional famous that her consumer has the proper to not incriminate herself, and he or she argued that testifying within the divorce proceedings “might be detrimental to her or her adolescent youngster” within the prison investigation.

“A particularly delicate and critical circumstance has arisen the place the defendant/mom won’t be able to testify presently on the listening to,” Athanason wrote.

Anna Kepner wrote that she was going to carry on after a tough breakup in a video posted beneath unknown circumstances simply days earlier than she died. (@fl.anna18/TikTok)

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‘A police investigation is at present underway [FBI] arising from the sudden demise of [18-year-old] Anna Kepner,” the submitting continues. ‘Madam. Anna Kepner, the decedent, is the daughter of defendant and defendant’s lover and the minor youngsters of this direct motion had been all on the cruise ship collectively.

The submitting is a part of a dispute arising from Shauntel’s divorce from her ex-husband, Thomas Hudson.

Authorities have mentioned little in regards to the case.

The FBI’s Miami workplace is investigating the case. And the Miami-Dade County Medical Examiner’s workplace is dealing with the post-mortem, though a trigger and method of demise had not been decided as of Wednesday morning.

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The Each day Mail reported Tuesday, citing two unnamed sources, that Kepner’s stays had been found wrapped in a blanket and coated with life jackets beneath the mattress in her cabin on the Carnival Horizon cruise ship.

Carnival mentioned in an announcement it was cooperating with the FBI. The FBI didn’t reply to a request for remark.