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Family Says They Learned Online as FBI Probes 18-Year-Old’s Death on Carnival Cruise

Relatives report scarce communication from authorities, with updates arriving through news coverage and social posts.

Overview

  • Anna Kepner, 18, was found on Nov. 8 in her Carnival Horizon cabin under the bed, wrapped in a blanket and covered with life jackets, according to reports.
  • A source familiar with the case told ABC News she was strangled and then suffocated, and multiple outlets report bruising on her neck consistent with strangulation.
  • Multiple reports say the FBI is investigating her 16-year-old stepbrother as a possible suspect, with no public announcement of charges.
  • Her mother, Heather Wright, told NewsNation she discovered her daughter’s death by searching Google after friends alerted her that something was wrong.
  • Her grandfather told Fox News the family has not been contacted by investigators and said he learned that the stepbrother was a suspect from media posts, adding she had been sharing a cabin with him.