{"id":60219,"date":"2025-11-19T11:55:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T11:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/60219\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T11:55:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T11:55:07","slug":"teenage-cheerleader-allegedly-died-on-cruise-found-wrapped-in-blanket-stuffed-under-bed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/60219\/","title":{"rendered":"Teenage cheerleader allegedly died on cruise, found wrapped in blanket, stuffed under bed"},"content":{"rendered":"

MIAMI, Fla. (WKRC) – The body of an 18-year-old cheerleader who was on a cruise with her family was allegedly discovered wrapped in a blanket and stuffed beneath the bed in her cabin.<\/p>\n

When Carnival cruises’ Horizon ship returned to port on November 8, it was immediately swarmed by FBI agents investigating a mysterious death.<\/p>\n

The Daily Mail <\/a>received information from authorities that revealed the victim was 18-year-old Anna Kepner, a high school cheerleader who was on vacation with her family. Unspecified sources told the outlet Kepner was eating dinner with her family on November 6 when she complained about not feeling well. Kepner allegedly returned to her cabin.<\/p>\n

The next morning, Kepner was reportedly missing from the family breakfast and could not be found during a short search. A maid eventually found the 18-year-old’s body wrapped in a blanket, covered in life jackets, and stuffed under her bed, at around 11 a.m. on November 7, according to the outlet.<\/p>\n

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Kepner’s father told the outlet that authorities had provided his family with little to no information regarding the investigation into Kepner’s death. The case was placed under the jurisdiction of the FBI since the death occurred on international waters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI, Fla. (WKRC) – The body of an 18-year-old cheerleader who was on a cruise with her family…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60220,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-60219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}