Anna Kepner’s heartbroken dad desires 16-year-old stepson to ‘face the results’ in cruise ship slaying
Anna Kepner’s heartbroken father desires his stepson punished if federal brokers discover he killed the 18-year-old Florida cheerleader on a Carnival cruise ship — however refused to say whether or not he believes the boy had any position in his daughter’s mysterious dying.
“I don’t stand behind what my stepson has executed,” Christopher Kepner, 41, informed Individuals.
“I would like him to face the results … I can be combating to guarantee that does occur.”
The highschool senior had been touring on the Carnival Horizon ship along with her blended household — together with her father, stepmother, siblings, stepsiblings and grandparents — when she was discovered useless on Nov. 7.
Her lifeless physique was stashed underneath her cabin mattress and wrapped in a blanket coated by life vests.
The FBI has provided no updates on its investigation, however court docket filings from an unrelated case recommend that Anna’s 16-year-old stepbrother, who was sharing a cabin along with her, is being eyed as a possible “suspect.”
“He was a traditional child,” Kepner stated of his stepson, including “I’d’ve by no means thought that any of this is able to’ve occurred.”
The grieving father stated he final noticed his daughter alive on Nov. 6 throughout a household dinner aboard the Carnival ship, and that her corpse was discovered the next day by a housekeeper, the outlet reported.
However when requested by the publication whether or not his stepson was concerned in Anna’s grisly dying, he replied, “I can’t say that he’s accountable, however I can’t decline.”
“He was the one one which was within the room and the FBI has an ongoing investigation wherein they should present the proof to say that he did do it or didn’t do that,” the devastated dad stated.
Anna’s dying was dominated a murder, along with her dying certificates revealing she was “mechanically asphyxiated by different particular person(s)” on Nov. 6, ABC Information reported.
Her 14-year-old youthful brother reported overhearing “yelling” and “chairs being thrown” whereas Anna and her stepbrother had been alone of their stateroom, which the three siblings shared through the cruise.
He unknowingly slept ft away from his sister’s hid corpse the identical evening she was killed.
Joshua Westin, Anna’s ex-boyfriend, claimed she confessed she “didn’t really feel protected round” her stepbrother months earlier than her dying, in accordance with his father.
Westin additionally accused the stepbrother of sexually harassing and having a twisted obsession with Anna, however stated she stayed quiet “as a result of she was scared that he would do one thing to her,” Westin’s dad stated.
Westin’s father additionally alleged that the stepbrother “all the time carried round an enormous knife.”
“He’s like infatuated, interested in her like loopy. He all the time needed so far her,” he stated.
Anna, a religious Christian who was simply baptized in Could, was set to graduate from the Temple Christian College in Titusville, Florida this faculty yr.
She aspired to affix the US Navy and ultimately change into a K9 police officer.
