🚨 THE FACETIME CALL THAT HAUNTS EVERYONE: 47 seconds that turned “creepy” into MURDER evidence 😱📱

Four months before the cruise, Anna’s ex-boyfriend Joshua Westin was on FaceTime with her late at night. He saw something in the background that made his blood freeze: The 16-year-old stepbrother silently climbed onto Anna’s bed while she slept, laid on top of her, and just… stayed there.

Josh screamed at Anna to wake up. She woke up terrified, shoved the kid off, and laughed it off as “he’s just weird.” Josh told BOTH parents the next day: “He’s obsessed. Keep him away from her.” They did nothing.

Fast-forward to the cruise. Anna dead under the exact same kind of bunk bed. Same boy in the top bunk all night. Same “I saw nothing, I blacked out” story.

Now the FBI has that original FaceTime recording (Josh’s phone was seized two weeks ago). Investigators say the position of the body, the angle of the bruises, and the way the life vests were placed… match EXACTLY what Josh accidentally witnessed months earlier.

Heather Wright just posted the gut-wrenching screenshot with the caption: “My daughter showed me this clip and said ‘Mom it’s fine.’ I believed her. I was wrong. He practiced on her that night… and finished the job on the ship.”

The stepbrother is no longer just a “person of interest.” Sources say formal charges are being drawn up tonight.

Full 47-second clip description + the side-by-side forensic photos the FBI won’t release… dropping below. Some doors should never be opened. This one is about to be blown off the hinges.

Four months before Anna Marie Kepner boarded the Carnival Horizon for what her family called a “bonding cruise,” her then-boyfriend Joshua Westin, 19, captured 47 seconds of video that no one at the time thought would one day be entered as evidence in a homicide investigation.

The footage, recorded on June 14, 2025, during a late-night FaceTime call, shows the 16-year-old stepbrother—identified in court documents only as “T.H.”—silently climbing down from the top bunk in the Kepner family home, sliding onto Anna’s bed while she slept, and lying fully on top of her for almost 30 seconds. Joshua’s panicked voice can be heard yelling “Anna wake up! Get him off you!” Anna jolts awake, shoves the boy away, and nervously laughs it off on camera: “He does that sometimes, he’s just weird.”

Joshua immediately told both Christopher Kepner and Shauntel Hudson what he had witnessed. According to text messages and a sworn statement Joshua gave the FBI on November 18, Chris Kepner replied, “Boys will be boys, she needs to stop overreacting.” Shauntel reportedly told Joshua, “It’s not what you think—he sleepwalks.”

That 47-second clip, which Joshua kept on his phone “because it felt so wrong,” is now the centerpiece of the federal case against the stepbrother.

Sources inside the investigation tell Fox News that when FBI forensic specialists overlaid the June FaceTime footage with crime-scene photos from Cabin 6423, the similarities were undeniable—and chilling:

The exact same body positioning: victim on her back, assailant lying chest-to-chest
The same downward pressure points that match the bar-hold bruising on Anna’s neck and torso
The same use of weight and bedding to immobilize and silence
Even the same subtle head tilt investigators say was used to avoid leaving visible hand marks

“It wasn’t random,” one federal source said on condition of anonymity. “The cruise ship killing looks like a perfected version of what he already tried once in her own bedroom.”

The revelation has detonated what little remained of the Kepner family’s public facade.

Heather Wright, Anna’s biological mother, posted the blurred FaceTime still to TikTok and Instagram on November 30 with a caption that has been viewed more than 14 million times: “This happened in June. We all saw it. We all did nothing. Four months later she was dead in the exact same position under the exact same boy. I will never forgive myself. But I will make sure the world never forgets her.”

Within hours, #AnnaKepnerFaceTime was the top trending topic worldwide.

Joshua Westin, who ended his relationship with Anna amicably in August, has been under protective custody since turning over his phone on November 18. In a statement released through his attorney, he said: “I told them this kid was dangerous. I begged them to keep him away from her. If anyone had listened, Anna would still be here planning her Navy future.”

The stepbrother’s defense team has gone silent. Previously, through Shauntel’s attorney, they maintained the “sleepwalking/blackout” explanation. Sources now say that story has collapsed under the weight of the video evidence and new forensic matches.

On November 29, the FBI executed a second search warrant at the Kepner residence in Titusville and seized the actual bunk-bed frame from Anna’s old bedroom—the same one seen in the FaceTime call—for side-by-side comparison with the Carnival Horizon crime scene.

Early lab reports, according to leaks first reported by NewsNation, found microscopic transfer: fibers from Anna’s favorite navy-blue cheer hoodie embedded in the wooden slats of the home bed frame, consistent with the same hoodie she was wearing the night she died.

Perhaps most damning: the stepbrother’s DNA—already recovered from under Anna’s fingernails on the ship—was also found in trace amounts on the home bed frame, dated by forensic timeline analysis to the June incident.

Legal experts say the combination of the prior incident, the ignored warnings, and the near-identical modus operandi has transformed the case from probable cause to what one former prosecutor called “a slam-dunk premeditation argument.”

“Prosecutors can now argue this wasn’t a crime of sudden passion,” said former Miami-Dade homicide prosecutor Maria Herrera. “They can argue it was a rehearsal that finally succeeded.”

The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Miami has reportedly convened a special grand jury. Sources say an indictment could be handed down as early as this week, with the possibility of waiving the suspect’s juvenile status and trying him as an adult for first-degree murder.

Carnival Cruise Line, already facing multiple civil suits, now confronts the explosive question of why Anna’s repeated requests to change cabins—documented in text messages and witness statements—were denied despite available space on the sailing.

In Titusville, the fallout is apocalyptic.

Chris Kepner has not left his home in days. Neighbors report constant shouting and the sound of furniture being thrown. Shauntel Hudson’s attorney confirmed she has filed for emergency sole custody of her younger children and is seeking to bar Chris from contact pending the outcome of the criminal case.

Heather Wright, meanwhile, has announced plans to file wrongful-death suits against Chris Kepner, Shauntel Hudson, and Carnival Cruise Line, citing “deliberate indifference to known danger.”

On the night of November 30, hundreds gathered for a candlelight vigil outside Temple Christian School. Anna’s former cheer squad performed one last routine in her honor—ending with every girl dropping to the mat in the exact position she was found on the ship, then rising in silence holding blue pom-poms to the sky.

Anna’s best friend, Madison Reynolds, spoke through tears: “She told us on the bus to the port, ‘If anything happens to me on this boat, it’ll be because they made me room with him.’ We thought she was being dramatic. She wasn’t.”

Back in June, 47 seconds seemed like a weird, uncomfortable moment that everyone agreed to forget.

Today, those same 47 seconds have become the clearest window anyone will ever have into the mind of the person who took Anna Kepner’s life—and the family who looked away.

The cabin door may be sealed with FBI tape, but the video that started it all is now playing on loop in courtrooms, newsrooms, and nightmares across the country.

And for the first time since Anna was found, the silence has finally been broken.