Overview
- A Brevard County hearing set for 9 a.m. Friday will consider removing the stepmother’s other children from her custody to their father.
- New court documents state Anna Kepner was found asphyxiated under a bed in the stateroom she shared on the Carnival Horizon.
- Filings identify a 16-year-old stepbrother as part of an open FBI investigation related to her death, and federal authorities have not announced an arrest.
- A subpoena dated Nov. 25 ordered Anna’s father, Christopher Kepner, to appear at the hearing before Judge Michelle P. Studstill.
- A judge kept the custody case public after the stepmother sought a gag order and sealing of records, and the medical examiner has not publicly released a cause of death.