Anna Kepner’s brother slept through the night unaware that his sister’s body was stuffed under a bed just a few feet away, a new transcript reveals

Anna Kepner; Timothy Hudson.Credit : Anna Kepner/Instagram; Romain Maurice/Getty

Anna Kepner was seen entering cabin 8343 aboard the Carnival Cruise Line’s Horizon at 7:38 p.m. on Nov. 6, 2025, according to court documents obtained by PEOPLE.

She would never emerge from that room, and the following morning a member of the cruise’s cleaning crew “found the victim wrapped in a blanket and stuffed underneath her bed”, said prosecutor Alejandra Lopez of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida.

Lopez went on to say that it “appeared that someone had tried to hide her, again, by partially putting her underneath the bed and putting a box of life vests to cover the view of the body from the rest of the room.”

These are just a few of the new details being revealed in a recently unsealed transcript from a February hearing for the individual accused of Anna’s murder — her 16-year-old stepbrother Timothy Hudson.

Anna Kepner.Anna Kepner/Instagram

Anna’s body was so well hidden that her own brother slept in their cabin that night and had no idea that he was just a few feet away from his sister’s corpse, Lopez said in court.

Anna’s brother was the last person to see her alive prior to the alleged crime, with Lopez revealing he told investigators that he saw his sister while making a quick pit stop at their cabin at 7:51 p.m. that night.

He did not see his sister when he returned approximately four hours later, said Lopez, and when he returned to go to bed just after midnight he could not get into the room at first.

He told investigators that when he went to enter the room at 12:09 a.m., Timothy blocked him from coming in and made him wait in the hallway for approximately two minutes, Lopez said.

After sleeping nine hours, the brother was back to running around the cruise ship with friends on the morning of Nov. 7.

Hudson, meanwhile, entered the room three minutes before Anna on Nov. 6, leaving on just a handful of occasions in the next 18 hours.

Lopez alleged in court that Hudson not only hid the body but also destroyed Anna’s cell before disposing of it in the trash.

Anna’s father Christopher Kepner and Hudson’s mother Shauntel have both said that they cut all ties with the 16-year-old after Anna’s death.

Hudson, who had been living in the same home as Christopher, Shauntel and Anna, was sent to live with a family member shortly after returning from the cruise, and remains there while on pretrial release.

Timothy Hudson.AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell

He was first taken into custody in early February, at which time he was arraigned as a minor on charges of murder and aggravated sexual assault.

A grand jury then indicted him on those same charges, which were then refiled so that Hudson could be charged as an adult.

As a result, he is now facing the possibility of two life sentences if convicted of both crimes.

The grand jury wrote in the superseding indictment that Hudson “did knowingly and unlawfully perpetrate” the “willful, deliberate, malicious and premeditated killing of [Kepner] with malice afterthought.”

Further, the grand jury states that this occurred during the “perpetration” of an “aggravated sexual abuse.”

He has been in the care of a maternal aunt since his arraignment and will stay there after a judge rejected a motion from prosecutors to remand him into custody at a May 27 detention hearing.