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00:00A grieving father said his family had their world turned upside down
00:03after a maid on a Carnival Horizon cruise ship made a disturbing discovery.
00:08The lifeless body of an 18-year-old girl, stuffed under a bed and wrapped in a blanket.
00:13Who was Anna Kepner, the bubbly straight-A student whose body was mysteriously discovered?
00:19And why are the feds now eyeing her 16-year-old stepbrother as a suspect?
00:23Here's everything you need to know.
00:25The Florida teen affectionately nicknamed Anna Banana and her blended family set sail on November 2nd from Miami
00:31for a six-day Carnival cruise which was supposed to set sail throughout the Caribbean.
00:36The teen was on the ship with her father, Christopher Kepner, and her new stepmom, Chantel Hudson,
00:42whose two teenage sons were also in tow on the voyage.
00:46Before tragedy struck, Anna had plans to join the U.S. Navy after graduation and eventually become a K-9 police officer.
00:52But on the fourth night of the cruise, the fun-loving teen reportedly told family members at dinner
00:57that she was not feeling well and decided to go back to her room, according to the Daily Mail.
01:02When she didn't show up for breakfast the next morning, a desperate search was made of the massive ship
01:07which can carry nearly 4,000 passengers.
01:09The search came to a disturbing end when a maid on the ship made a grisly discovery.
01:14Anna was reportedly found dead wrapped in a blanket covered in life jackets
01:18and crammed underneath a bed inside the cabin she shared with her 14-year-old and 16-year-old stepbrothers.
01:24The shocking death prompted the Carnival cruise ship to abruptly change course for the port of Miami, Florida,
01:30where the FBI Miami office jump-started the investigation
01:32since the teen's death occurred in international waters somewhere between Mexico and Miami.
01:38But bombshell details about the mysterious case have since emerged from an unexpected source.
01:43According to a court motion filed on November 17th from a messy custody dispute
01:48between Anna's stepmother, Chantel, and her ex-husband, Thomas,
01:52Chantel requested that a hearing be rescheduled because she claimed that her son,
01:56Anna's 16-year-old stepbrother, was being named a suspect in the teen's killing
02:00and could face a criminal case.
02:02The stepbrother, who was identified as TH in documents, remains in the care of one of his mother's relatives
02:07as the investigation into his stepsister's death continues, according to legal filings in a Brevard County Family Court.
02:14Chillingly, Chantel also accused her ex of domestic and physical abuse against their two youngest children,
02:20including the boy who is now being questioned by the FBI in the high school senior's mysterious death,
02:25according to an emergency motion filed in court.
02:27Now, even more disturbing details have been trickling out.
02:30According to a new report from Daily Mail, Anna's 14-year-old brother unknowingly went to sleep just feet away from his dead sister.
02:37Sources say during the same night, the teen went back to her room after feeling sick.
02:41The teen's two stepbrothers also went back to their shared room with Anna later that evening,
02:46before her younger brother changed his clothes and left again to take pictures of the Carnival Horizon
02:51as it continued its Caribbean voyage.
02:53Sources say that when the 14-year-old came back, he noticed his stepsister wasn't in bed,
02:58but he assumed she had gone out again to be with the adults.
03:01The young boy thought nothing of it and went to sleep.
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