Cruise Ship and Maritime Safety

Newly filed custody court documents in Brevard County, Florida reveal that FBI investigators are focusing on an unnamed 16-year-old boy as a suspect in the November homicide of his 18-year-old stepsister, Anna Kepner, aboard the Carnival Horizon cruise ship that sailed from Miami. The records, which quote text exchanges between the boy’s divorced parents, say he repeatedly told his mother he does not remember what happened, while Kepner’s death certificate lists the cause as mechanical asphyxia inflicted by another person or persons, and relatives are now disputing custody of a younger sibling as the boy stays with a relative of his stepmother.