A longer, unfiltered version of the Carnival Horizon hallway footage has just leaked online, and it is infinitely worse than anyone feared.

Until now, the public had only seen the 11-second clip that went viral: Anna bolting, the hand grabbing, the door slamming. What the FBI and Carnival quietly withheld was the full 47-second recording, complete with corridor microphone audio that captured every scream, every plea, and four words spoken in a calm teenage boy’s voice that have now destroyed a family.

The extended video begins at 4:46:13 a.m. on November 7. Cabin 7423’s door edges open slowly. Anna Kepner appears in the gap, one eye swollen almost shut, lip split and bleeding. She is barefoot, shaking violently, clutching a blood-smeared iPhone like a lifeline. Her first audible words are barely a whisper:

“Dad… help… please…”

She slips into the hallway, pulling the door almost closed behind her, afraid to let it latch. For nine agonizing seconds she stands frozen, listening. Then the door is yanked open from inside. Ethan Hudson, 16, steps halfway out, hoodie up, face in shadow except for the glint of his braces when he speaks.

“Anna. Get back in here.”

She backs away, palms up. “Ethan, stop. I’m telling them everything. You can’t—”

“I said get back inside.” His voice is flat, eerily adult.

Anna turns and runs.

That’s when the chase begins. She makes it twelve feet, phone raised, thumb hovering over the emergency call button, when Ethan lunges. The microphone picks up the sickening slap of skin on skin as his hand clamps around her forearm hard enough to bruise bone-deep. Anna’s scream rips through the corridor:

“LET GO! HELP! SOMEBODY—”

He drags her backward. She digs her heels into the carpet, nails scraping the wallpaper, leaving four parallel gouges that housekeeping later photographed. Her phone skitters away, screen cracking. As she’s pulled across the threshold, she twists toward the camera one last time and screams the words now seared into millions of viewers:

“I’M SORRY, I CAN’T LET YOU LEAVE.”

It’s Ethan’s voice, calm and final, just before the door slams.

Silence for twenty-three seconds. Then a muffled thud from inside the cabin. Another. A choked gurgle. Nothing after that.

At 5:14 a.m., housekeeper Maria Gonzalez opens the door with her master key and drops her cleaning caddy in horror. Anna is wedged head-first under the bottom bunk, blanket twisted around her neck like a garrote, eyes still open, fixed on the door she almost escaped through.

The leaked file, uploaded anonymously to a true-crime forum at 3:12 a.m. today, has already been viewed 28 million times. Within hours, #ImSorryICantLetYouLeave became the number-one global trend, accompanied by slowed-down screenshots of Anna’s terrified face frozen mid-scream.

Carnival’s official response was a two-line statement claiming the longer video is “part of an ongoing federal investigation” and asking the public to refrain from sharing it. Ten minutes later the company’s servers crashed under traffic as people hunted for the uncensored version anyway.

Anna’s biological mother, Jennifer Donohue, who was not on the cruise, watched the full clip for the first time during an interview with NBC this afternoon. She collapsed on set, sobbing, “That’s my baby begging… and he just says it like he’s telling her to turn off a light.”

Newly released evidence from the FBI affidavit makes the boy’s chilling sentence even darker:

Ethan’s phone, recovered from the cabin toilet tank, contained a note written at 4:42 a.m.: “She said she’s telling Dad tonight. I can’t let that happen. I’m sorry.”
A search of his Spotify reveals a playlist titled “night 6” with the last song played at 4:45 a.m.: “The Night We Met” by Lord Huron, the same track that loops in the background of the hallway audio.
Toxicology shows Anna had 0.12% blood alcohol (two spiked punch drinks at the teen club) plus traces of diphenhydramine, enough to make her limbs heavy but not unconscious. Investigators believe Ethan waited until she was groggy, then tried to stage an overdose. When she woke up and fought back, he improvised.

Perhaps the most gut-wrenching discovery: Anna’s Apple Watch recorded a heart rate of 187 bpm at 4:46 a.m., spiking to 212 during the struggle, then flatlined at 4:51 a.m. Four minutes and forty-seven seconds of pure terror, captured on her wrist.

Ethan Hudson remains in secure juvenile custody. His public defender now claims the four words were taken out of context and that Anna’s death was a “tragic accident during a sibling argument.” Prosecutors are seeking to try him as an adult for first-degree murder.

Tonight, Carnival Horizon sits empty at PortMiami, lights dimmed, gangway up. Passengers booked on next week’s sailing are being offered full refunds and “alternative vacation options.”

But for the thousands who have watched that 47-second nightmare on repeat, there is no refund big enough.

Anna Kepner almost made it to the elevator.

She was twelve feet from salvation when the person she called family decided her story had to end.

And in the coldest voice you will ever hear on a holiday cruise, he told her why.