Overview
- Federal agents say 18‑year‑old Anna Kepner was sexually assaulted and strangled on a Carnival cruise in November 2025 and that crew members later found her badly damaged phone in a ship trash bin.
- FBI Agent Andrew del Valle testified that agents downloaded data from the smashed phone and used its connections to four ship Wi‑Fi routers to map the device’s movement across the vessel.
- The government says ship surveillance tied Timothy Hudson to each router location and showed him lingering about 22 seconds near the trash bin where the phone was recovered.
- Hudson, 16, was arrested in February, initially arraigned as a minor, then indicted and refiled to be tried as an adult; after a May 27 hearing a magistrate kept him in relative custody with electronic monitoring.
- A September federal trial will weigh the phone data alongside router logs, surveillance footage, the missing Apple Watch’s stopped vitals and prior forensic findings that prosecutors say connect Hudson to the crime scene.