Cruise Ship Murder: Timothy Hudson's Family Did What to His Defense?

In the first forty-eight hours after Anna Kepner's body was found aboard the Carnival Horizon, custody filings allege Timothy Hudson's mother texted his biological father that she'd told their son she loved him. Within weeks, those same filings claim she said she couldn't jeopardize her marriage to help him. The filings allege the family wanted Timothy "buried." That's how fast the fracture happened.

Timothy Hudson is sixteen, charged as an adult with first-degree murder in his stepsister's death. His defense team just told a federal judge they need more time because a "very unfortunate family dynamic" is preventing them from reaching family members essential to a Miller hearing — a constitutionally required proceeding examining a juvenile's childhood before a life sentence. The judge granted the continuance. Prosecutors didn't oppose it.

The defense won't say who they can't reach. The custody record says it for them. Timothy's mother is married to Anna's father Christopher Kepner. She is both the accused killer's biological mother and the stepmother of the person who was killed. Court records from the custody case show she and Christopher expelled Timothy from their home. His biological father Thomas Hudson — who appears to be cooperating with the defense — put the text exchanges into the court record. Christopher Kepner told reporters he wants Timothy in "orange jumpsuit and handcuffs."

The trial is set for November 2nd. The plea deadline is October 23rd. The Miller hearing happens regardless of which path the defense takes — and they can't prepare for it without the parent who raised Timothy day to day.

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