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Stepbrother Tied to Anna Kepner's Killing Through her Cellphone | Crime Alert 06.10.26 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alard hourly update, breaking crime news Now.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Sidney Silvanni. Chilling new details are emerging from the
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  Speaker 2: tragic November twenty twenty five murder of eighteen year old
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  Speaker 2: high school senior and a keepner aboard a Carnival cruise ship.
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  Speaker 2: Federal court transcripts have just revealed exactly how FBI agent
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  Speaker 2: zeroed in on the prime suspect, Anna's own sixteen year
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  Speaker 2: old step brother, Timothy Hudson. According to testimony from FBI
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  Speaker 2: agent Andrew Duval, the biggest break in the case came
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  Speaker 2: from a device. Anna's family said she was never without
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  Speaker 2: her cell phone. Hudson allegedly tried to destroy the phone,
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  Speaker 2: smashing the screen and dumping it in a trash can
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  Speaker 2: on the opposite side of the ship, but he couldn't
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  Speaker 2: destroy the digital trail. A crew member found the battered
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  Speaker 2: phone and turned it into the ships Lost and Found.
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  Speaker 2: Despite the heavy damage, the FBI managed to download its contents,
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  Speaker 2: giving them a digital map of the cover up by
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  Speaker 2: tracking the phone as it pinged off four different ship
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  Speaker 2: routers over twenty minutes the morning after Anna's death, agents
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  Speaker 2: cross referenced the locations with ships surveillance cameras. The footage
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  Speaker 2: placed Timothy in all four spots. He was even caught
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  Speaker 2: on camera standing by that exact trash can for twenty
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  Speaker 2: two seconds before returning to his room. Adding a haunting
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  Speaker 2: detail to the timeline is Anna's missing Apple watch. While
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  Speaker 2: the watch itself was never recovered, agents determined it stopped
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  Speaker 2: recording her vitals between seven fifty and ten pm, the
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  Speaker 2: night before the phone was dumped. Timothy Hudson has been
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  Speaker 2: indicted by a grand jury, and, due to the severity
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  Speaker 2: of the crimes, will be charged as an adult. He
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  Speaker 2: faces charges of murder and aggravated sexual abuse, carrying the
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  Speaker 2: possibility of two life sentences. Despite prosecutors pushing for him
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  Speaker 2: to be remanded into custody, a judge recently ruled that
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  Speaker 2: Hudson will remain in the care of his maternal uncle
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  Speaker 2: as he awaits trial. More crime and justice news After this,
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  Speaker 2: we turned now to a horrifying incident out of Florida,
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  Speaker 2: where a fifty year old woman was brutally mauled to
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  Speaker 2: death by two dogs that neighbors say had been terrorizing
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  Speaker 2: their community for months. Today, the owner of those animals
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  Speaker 2: sits behind bars. Jody Cohen had only lived on Bluebonnet
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  Speaker 2: Drive for about two weeks when she tragically lost her
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  Speaker 2: life while protecting her own small dog. Brevard County Sheriff
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  Speaker 2: Wayne Ivy released a detailed video update explaining that Cohen
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  Speaker 2: was walking her small pet on the dark street just
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  Speaker 2: after midnight when the nightmare unfolded two.
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  Speaker 1: Dogs belonging to Cutler that once again gotten out of
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  Speaker 1: their yard and were roaming the neighborhood. The dogs, identified
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  Speaker 1: as Max and Mako, climbed over the owner's fence and
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  Speaker 1: began to brutally attack in maul Cowan, forcing her to
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  Speaker 1: the ground, viciously attacking her and eventually dragging her across
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  Speaker 1: the ground for quite some distance. A home security camera
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  Speaker 1: captured a large part of the attack on video that
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  Speaker 1: I want to warn you is extremely troubling and graphic.
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  Speaker 2: The surveillance footage shows a terrifying scene Cohen clutching her
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  Speaker 2: tiny dog tightly to her chest, shrieking in agony, and
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  Speaker 2: desperately trying to flee the aggressive animals. Cohen's partner, Donnell Smith,
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  Speaker 2: heard her piercing screams from inside and raced out into
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  Speaker 2: the darkness to stop the attack, swinging a knife at
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  Speaker 2: the dog's in a frantic effort to drive them away,
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  Speaker 2: Smith called nine one one while continuing to protect his
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  Speaker 2: longtime love. On the harrowing eight minute emergency call, Smith
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  Speaker 2: can be heard fighting back the barking dogs while trying
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  Speaker 2: to render critical aid to Cohen, who was still unconscious.
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  Speaker 2: Cohen was rushed to a nearby trauma center, but the
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  Speaker 2: damage was too severe. She died approximately four hours later. Miraculously,
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  Speaker 2: the little dog she sacrificed her life to protect escaped
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  Speaker 2: completely unharmed. The investigation quickly exposed a history of severe
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  Speaker 2: negligence by the dog's owner, Linda Cutler. Sheriff Ivy explained
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  Speaker 2: that Cutler was fully aware of the danger her pet's
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  Speaker 2: pose to the neighborhood.
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  Speaker 1: Agents with our homicide unit initiated a death investigation, which
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  Speaker 1: ultimately revealed that Linda Cutler had specific and documented knowledge
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  Speaker 1: that her dogs repeatedly got out of her yard, an
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  Speaker 1: additional knowledge that her dogs were attacking humans and had
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  Speaker 1: actually bitten someone. The investigation further revealed that Cutler took
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  Speaker 1: minimal action to prevent the dogs from getting out of
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  Speaker 1: her yard, even after being cited by animal services previously
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  Speaker 1: for her dogs being at large and being made aware
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  Speaker 1: that her dog's actually been a neighbor who had to
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  Speaker 1: seek medical treatment.
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  Speaker 2: Since October twenty twenty four, neighbors called the Sheriff's office
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  Speaker 2: at least fourteen times about Cutler's animals. Ivy fumed at
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  Speaker 2: the suggestion that his agencies animal services hadn't taken appropriate action,
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  Speaker 2: explaining the law prevents seizure of animals except in cases
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  Speaker 2: of severe injury. Ivy said after a report that one
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  Speaker 2: of the dogs had bitten a neighbor, the victim did
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  Speaker 2: not cooperate with law enforcement, which prohibited our animal enforcement
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  Speaker 2: officers from taking any further action. During the postmulling investigation,
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  Speaker 2: Cutler admitted to detectives that she knew her dogs were
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  Speaker 2: repeatedly escaping and that one had previously bitten a neighbor.
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  Speaker 2: She revealed that both Max and Maco were becoming increasingly aggressive,
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  Speaker 2: even toward her, yet, in the shock display of insensitivity,
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  Speaker 2: she openly asked investigators when she would be able to
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  Speaker 2: get her dogs back. Following Cohen's death, Cutler avoided the
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  Speaker 2: scene by checking into a hotel on a nearby beach.
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  Speaker 2: Eight days after the fatal mauling, deputies tracked her down
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  Speaker 2: and placed her under arrest. In the final dramatic turn,
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  Speaker 2: Cutler pretended to suffer a heart attack while being taken
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  Speaker 2: into custody, though she was quickly cleared of any medical
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  Speaker 2: issues at a local hospital. Sheriff IV personally confronted Cutler
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  Speaker 2: as she was booked into the county jail.
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  Speaker 1: Hope you enjoyed your time at the beach, because you're
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  Speaker 1: not going to be going back. What is the purpose
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  Speaker 1: of that. A woman's dead and two dogs are about
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  Speaker 1: to be euthanized because of your uselessness, So have a
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  Speaker 1: nice visit.
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  Speaker 2: Brevard County Public Information Officer Todd Goodyear confirmed that Cutler
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  Speaker 2: is currently being held without bond, as she was already
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  Speaker 2: out of jail for an unrelated charge at the time
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  Speaker 2: of her arrest. The two dogs are currently being held
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  Speaker 2: by the county's Animal Services Unit and will be euthanized.
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  Speaker 2: For the latest crime and justice break news, be sure
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  Speaker 2: to tune in tomorrow on your favorite podcast app with
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  Speaker 2: this crime alert. I'm Sidney so Vani.