{"id":250088,"date":"2026-04-28T19:51:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T19:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/250088\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T19:51:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T19:51:06","slug":"trial-for-16-year-old-accused-of-sexually-assaulting-and-killing-stepsister-on-cruise-ship-set-for-june-wsvn-7news-miami-news-weather-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/250088\/","title":{"rendered":"Trial for 16-year-old accused of sexually assaulting and killing stepsister on cruise ship set for June &#8211; WSVN 7News | Miami News, Weather, Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MIAMI (WSVN) &#8211; The trial for a Florida teenager accused of killing his stepsister aboard a Carnival cruise ship has been set.<\/p>\n<p>A judge on Tuesday said the start of the trial for 16-year-old Timothy Hudson will begin on June 1 at 9 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>According to police, Hudson killed stepsister Anna Kepner while aboard the cruise ship last November. Kepner\u2019s body was found under a bed in a room that she was sharing with Hudson. <\/p>\n<p>Medical examiners declared that the 18-year-old died from mechanical asphyxiation. <\/p>\n<p>Hudson is being <a href=\"https:\/\/wsvn.com\/news\/local\/miami-dade\/florida-teenager-charged-with-sexually-assaulting-and-killing-stepsister-anna-kepner-on-cruise-ship\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">charged as an adult<\/a> with murder and aggravated sexual abuse. <\/p>\n<p>He has since pleaded not guilty. <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 Sunbeam Television Corp. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p>\tJoin our Newsletter for the latest news right to your inbox<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI (WSVN) &#8211; The trial for a Florida teenager accused of killing his stepsister aboard a Carnival cruise&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146582,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-250088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250088","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=250088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}