{"id":171427,"date":"2026-02-27T13:00:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T13:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/171427\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T13:00:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T13:00:15","slug":"florida-teen-charged-with-stepsisters-cruise-ship-murder-newsradio-wiod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/171427\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Teen Charged with Stepsister&#8217;s Cruise Ship Murder | NewsRadio WIOD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Miami, FL) &#8211; A Florida teenager is charged in his stepsister&#8217;s death on a cruise ship off Miami.  <\/p>\n<p>Court documents revealed yesterday show Anna Kepner&#8217;s 16-year-old stepbrother is charged with homicide.  <\/p>\n<p>The 18-year-old Kepner died while on a family cruise in November aboard the Carnival Horizon. <\/p>\n<p>Her body was found under a bed by a housekeeper in her stateroom on the Carnival Horizon before it arrived in Miami.  <\/p>\n<p>A source tells CBS News the boy strangled Kepner during an argument, and alcohol may have been involved. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Miami, FL) &#8211; A Florida teenager is charged in his stepsister&#8217;s death on a cruise ship off Miami.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171428,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[33099,81543,5507,28,123,125,124,71049,40963],"class_list":["post-171427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-anna-kepner","tag-cruise-ship-murder","tag-death","tag-florida","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-stepsister","tag-teenager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}