The footage, posted by TikTok user @nickcapo609, captures the ship\u2019s Sail Away Party on Nov. 2, as the vessel departed Miami<\/a> for a weeklong Caribbean itinerary.<\/p>\n In the clip, vacationers sway along to music on the open deck. Near the center of the crowd, Kepner, seen wearing black shorts and a white top, dances with other passengers. Her grandmother, dressed in pink, stands close by.<\/p>\n Anna Kepner danced with fellow vacationers on a Carnival Cruise Line ship Nov. 2, eerie footage posted online before her death shows. (TikTok\/@nickcapo609)<\/p>\n FATHER OF CHEERLEADER WHO DIED ON CARNIVAL CRUISE SUBPOENAED TO TESTIFY IN CUSTODY CASE<\/a><\/p>\n Authorities have released few details about what happened between the time the video was recorded and the discovery of Kepner\u2019s body<\/a>.<\/p>\n She was found dead Nov. 7 in her cabin aboard the Carnival Horizon.<\/p>\n The teenager\u2019s body was found under a bed in a room she was sharing with two of her siblings, including her 16-year-old stepbrother.<\/p>\n Officials said she died from “mechanical asphyxia,”<\/a> and the FBI has launched an investigation.<\/p>\n Anna Kepner, 18, was found dead aboard a Carnival cruise ship Nov. 7 during a vacation with her family.\u00a0 (Anna Kepner\/Instagram)<\/p>\n TEEN FOUND DEAD ON CARNIVAL CRUISE SHIP DIED FROM MECHANICAL ASPHYXIATION, RULED HOMICIDE: REPORT<\/a><\/p>\n The ship returned to PortMiami Nov. 9, and federal authorities boarded and began collecting evidence.<\/p>\n While the bureau hasn’t publicly identified anyone as a suspect and no\u00a0criminal charges\u00a0have been filed, the feud in family court between Anna’s father and stepmother, Christopher Kepner and Shauntel Kepner, and Shauntel’s ex-husband, Thomas Hudson, has revealed that their 16-year-old son is being investigated<\/a> in Anna’s death.<\/p>\n Anna Kepner, her father, stepmother and several siblings in a family photo. (Shauntel Kepner\/Facebook)<\/p>\n CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FOX NEWS APP<\/a><\/p>\n Kepner, of Titusville, Florida<\/a>, was a high school senior at Temple Christian School. She was preparing to graduate in spring 2026 and hoped to enlist in the U.S. Navy, her family said.<\/p>\n Sarah Rumpf-Whitten is a U.S. Writer at Fox News Digital.\u00a0<\/p>\n You can follow her on Twitter <\/a>and LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A video showing 18-year-old Anna Kepner dancing with fellow passengers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86191,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7106,6819,2362,28,30,29,1109,5335,628],"class_list":{"0":"post-86190","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-crime-world","9":"tag-cruises","10":"tag-fbi","11":"tag-florida","12":"tag-florida-headlines","13":"tag-florida-news","14":"tag-homicide","15":"tag-true-crime","16":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86190","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=86190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Anna](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/anna-kepner-cruise-1.jpg\")
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