{"id":52939,"date":"2025-11-19T17:46:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T17:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/52939\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T17:46:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T17:46:10","slug":"teen-stepbrother-under-investigation-in-death-of-18-year-old-on-carnival-cruise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/52939\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen stepbrother under investigation in death of 18-year-old on Carnival cruise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0November 19, 2025 at 12:29 PM<\/p>\n<p>Teen step-brother of 18-year-old found dead on Carnival Horizon is a suspect <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI \u2014 An investigation into the mysterious death of a woman onboard a Carnival cruise ship that left from South Florida remains open and active. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Authorities said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2025\/11\/18\/charges-may-be-coming-as-fbi-investigates-death-of-18-year-old-girl-aboard-carnival-horizon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2025\/11\/18\/charges-may-be-coming-as-fbi-investigates-death-of-18-year-old-girl-aboard-carnival-horizon\/\">18-year-old Anna Kepner was found dead on the Carnival Horizon<\/a> back on Nov. 7. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The ship returned to PortMiami as scheduled the following day. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Investigators from the FBI field office in Miami are examining the circumstances that led up to Kepner\u2019s death, with the girl\u2019s 16-year-old stepsibling now considered a suspect. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to court documents addressed to Kepner\u2019s step-mother in an unrelated family court case, \u201cThe respondent took the remaining minor children on a cruise with a step-child of her paramour. The sixteen-year-old child is now a suspect in the death of the step-child during the cruise.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Another document indicates something similar, stating, \u201cA criminal case may be initiated against one of the kids.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Court documents also indicated that the step-sibling is currently staying with a third party. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Because the death happened in international waters, the FBI is in charge of the investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">So far, agents have not released any information on a possible suspect or said how Kepner died. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In a statement, Carnival Cruise Line said, in part: <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cCarnival Cruise Line is fully cooperating with the Miami office of the FBI in the investigation of the death of a guest traveling on Carnival Horizon last week. The ship returned to PortMiami as planned on Saturday morning, Nov. 8 and the FBI has advised that there is no related threat to safety aboard as it sails its current voyage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2025 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Trent Kelly\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/https:\/\/author-service-images-prod-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/gmg\/379f21d1-d3cb-436b-9d60-fd7b.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Trent Kelly<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Trent Kelly is an award-winning multimedia journalist who joined the Local 10 News team in June 2018. Trent is no stranger to Florida. Born in Tampa, he attended the University of Florida in Gainesville, where he graduated with honors from the UF College of Journalism and Communications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0November 19, 2025 at 12:29 PM Teen step-brother of 18-year-old found dead on Carnival Horizon is a suspect&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52940,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":{"0":"post-52939","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hialeah","8":"tag-hialeah","9":"tag-hialeah-headlines","10":"tag-hialeah-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52939","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=52939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}