Anna Kepner’s teenage stepbrother claims he has no memory of what happened on the fateful Carnival cruise ship where she was strangled to death while vacationing with her family last month.
The 16-year-old, whose name has not been revealed, is the FBI’s primary suspect in Anna’s death, which has been ruled a homicide by “mechanical asphyxia,” according to her death certificate obtained by ABC News, which specifies the deadly act was done “by other person(s).”
In a series of text messages with his parents, Shauntel Hudson-Kepner and her ex-husband Thomas Kepner, the boy repeated over and over again that he didn’t remember anything, according to local media reports.
Anna, 18, was found dead in the cabin she shared with the 16-year-old and her 14-year-old brother. Her stepbrother, an insomniac, neglected to take his medication during the cruise.
The night she was killed, her youngest brother overheard “yelling” bellowing from the cabin while she was locked inside with their erratic stepbrother.
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