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'Mystery Male' Eyed as Potential Suspect by Timothy Hudson Defense | Crime Alert 06.05.26 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alart hourly update, breaking crime news Now.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Sidney Silvanni. We are looking at a massive development
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  Speaker 2: in a federal murder case. Newly unsealed court transcripts have
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  Speaker 2: revealed a potential twist in the trial of Timothy Hudson,
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  Speaker 2: the sixteen year old accused of assaulting and murdering his
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  Speaker 2: eighteen year old stepsister Anna Kopner. Aboard the Carnival Horizon
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  Speaker 2: back in November twenty twenty.
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  Speaker 3: Five, Anna's father, stepmother, and other family members join her
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  Speaker 3: for a six day carnival cruise to the Western Caribbean.
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  Speaker 3: After their last day at Porting Cosmo, Mexico, Anna heads
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  Speaker 3: back to her room early, telling family members she isn't
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  Speaker 3: feeling well during dinner. The next morning, Anna doesn't join
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  Speaker 3: her family for breakfast and isn't answering her door. Her
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  Speaker 3: family begins a frantic search for the teen On the
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  Speaker 3: fourteen deck four thousand passenger ship, the kept.
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  Speaker 4: Her family frantically searching for Anna when a housekeeper makes
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  Speaker 4: a horrifying discovery. The maid starts to gather linens for laundry,
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  Speaker 4: but notices the sheet missing off the bed. Making the bed,
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  Speaker 4: she notices a pile of life jackets underneath. Removing the
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  Speaker 4: life jackets, she discovers the missing sheet wrapped around Anna's body.
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  Speaker 2: Now, if you thought this was just an open and
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  Speaker 2: shut tragedy, a one hundred and forty five page detention
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  Speaker 2: hearing transcript just through a wrench into the narrative, investigators
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  Speaker 2: revealed they found DNA from a second mystery mail on
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  Speaker 2: the victim, an out of state juvenile traveler labeled minor
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  Speaker 2: Witness two, whom Kepner allegedly had consensual sex with earlier
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  Speaker 2: during the cruise. The defense is jumping all over this,
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  Speaker 2: arguing that prosecutors are just making assumptions about the timeline.
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  Speaker 2: But before you think this mystery mail is a viable suspect,
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  Speaker 2: the FBI already tracked him down and ran the tests.
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  Speaker 2: Here's how the evidence stacks up against step brother Timothy Hudson.
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  Speaker 2: Minor witness too was completely excluded from the specific DNA
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  Speaker 2: profile link to the assault. Prosecutor state one vaginal swab
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  Speaker 2: was one hundred and twenty sex tillion times more likely
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  Speaker 2: to match Hudson than a stranger. A second swab was
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  Speaker 2: one point two septillion times more likely to match him. Additionally,
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  Speaker 2: CCTV and phone data show Kepner entering their shared cabin
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  Speaker 2: in never leaving. Even worse, her phone's location data mirrored
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  Speaker 2: Hudson's movements right before it was found smashed in a
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  Speaker 2: trash bin. Despite the astronomical DNA numbers, the federal judge
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  Speaker 2: called the government's case a much closer call than it looks,
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  Speaker 2: noting the defense has room to argue. Hudson's trial is
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  Speaker 2: locked in for this September. We will see if the
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  Speaker 2: jury buys the defense's timeline defense or if those Septilian
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  Speaker 2: to one odds Ceala's fate. Moving to eastern Pennsylvania, a
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  Speaker 2: volunteer firefighter has been arrested for allegedly setting a string
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  Speaker 2: of dangerous fires just so he could turn around, put
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  Speaker 2: on his gear and play the hero. Justin Shaley, a
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  Speaker 2: twenty nine year old member of the Perseverance Volunteer Fire
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  Speaker 2: Company in Soderton, was arrested Sunday on multiple arson charges
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  Speaker 2: over the course of just a couple of days. Officials
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  Speaker 2: say Shally went on a one man wrecking spree. Friday morning,
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  Speaker 2: a detached garage and barn went up in flames just
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  Speaker 2: fifty feet away from a home with ten people sleeping inside.
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  Speaker 2: Later that afternoon, the Perseverance team also responded to a
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  Speaker 2: trash fire. The next morning, they were called to a
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  Speaker 2: massive blaze consuming a barn, a shed, an outhouse, three cars,
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  Speaker 2: and a gazebo. This one was right next to a
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  Speaker 2: house with eight people inside. So how did this hero
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  Speaker 2: get caught? Investigators use license plate readers to spot his
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  Speaker 2: vehicle at the scenes. When confronted, Shaly didn't just admit
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  Speaker 2: to setting all three fires. He confessed that after lighting them,
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  Speaker 2: he drove straight to the fire station so he could
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  Speaker 2: respond to the emergency calls with his unsuspecting crew. The motive,
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  Speaker 2: Shally claimed one of the properties belonged to an employer
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  Speaker 2: who fired him. Here's the kicker. He was fired back
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  Speaker 2: in twenty fifteen. Holding an eleven year grudge against a
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  Speaker 2: former boss is one thing, but endangering eighteen lives just
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  Speaker 2: to show off your firefighting skills is unhinged. The Perseverance
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  Speaker 2: Volunteer Fire Company has suspended Shally with the intent to
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  Speaker 2: remove him, stating his action standing complete opposition to their
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  Speaker 2: core values. Shelley has not yet entered a plea. More
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  Speaker 2: Crime and Justice news.
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  Speaker 1: After this, finally, a promising young athlete's life has been
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  Speaker 1: cut tragically short by gun violence. An incoming freshman college
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  Speaker 1: football player from Georgia has died just days after being
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  Speaker 1: shot the morning after his high school graduation ceremony. Eighteen
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  Speaker 1: year old Gavin Yates Lyons was a rising star. Yates
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  Speaker 1: Lyons had already enrolled at Ball State University in Munsey, Indiana,
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  Speaker 1: after graduating early from high school this past January. He
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  Speaker 1: was fully expected to be a major force on the
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  Speaker 1: field for ball State this upcoming football season. Tragedy struck
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  Speaker 1: after Yates Lyons traveled back home to Georgia to walk
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  Speaker 1: across the stage with his peers at Lowndes County High School.
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  Speaker 1: The very next morning, on May twenty fourth, Yates Lyons
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  Speaker 1: was in Tallahassee, Florida. Just before five am. Gunfire erupted
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  Speaker 1: inside an off campus parking garage of an apartment complex
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  Speaker 1: that caters heavily to Florida State University students. According to
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  Speaker 1: local police reports, the sh tuoting took place during an
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  Speaker 1: off campus party. Yates, Lions and two other individuals were
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  Speaker 1: struck by bullets. Family members note that the young athlete
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  Speaker 1: was completely innocent, caught directly in the violent crossfire of
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  Speaker 1: an argument he had nothing to do with. Medical professionals
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  Speaker 1: fought for a week to save him, but Ball State
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  Speaker 1: University officially announced his passing on Sunday, May thirty first.
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  Speaker 1: In a statement, university officials expressed deep mourning, extending sincere
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  Speaker 1: condolences to his family, teammates, and coaches. A GoFundMe campaign
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  Speaker 1: organized to assist the family with funeral expenses describes Gavin
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  Speaker 1: as a respectful, kind hearted young man with the deep
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  Speaker 1: love for his family. His grieving family shared a poignant message,
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  Speaker 1: stating that while their hearts are entirely broken by this
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  Speaker 1: tremendous loss, they find comfort knowing Gavin is resting in
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  Speaker 1: heaven at this hour. Tallahassee Police confirmed that the suspect
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  Speaker 1: or suspects responsible for pulling the trigger remain entirely at large.
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  Speaker 1: For the latest crime and justice breaking news, be sure
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  Speaker 1: this crime alert. I'm Sydney Silvanni. Evening