Anna Kepner's Stepbrother: What the Judge Said Before He Was Locked Up

True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & Interviews · Jun 22, 2026 · 14m

The same judge who let Timothy Hudson live with his uncle reversed himself and ordered him into federal custody. The detention order is fourteen pages. The language is not standard. The judge described what the evidence reveals about the character of the person charged with killing Anna Kepner and concluded that no combination of conditions could protect the community.Hudson was first charged as a juvenile in February and released under electronic monitoring. When a grand jury indicted him as an adult on charges of first-degree murder and aggravated offenses, the legal framework changed…