Anna Kepner News & Updates

One week after 17-year-old Anna Kepner of Titusville died aboard the Carnival Horizon, the FBI investigation into her death continues with few answers for her family..

Anna Kepner had plans for her life. The Titusville teen planned to join the U.S. Navy after graduation and go on to be a K9 police officer, according to her obituary on North Brevard Funeral Home's website. However, in her senior year of school, Anna died while on vacation in the Caribbean on a Carnival Horizon cruise. Her cause of death is unknown at this time. Anna died on Nov. 7. She was 18 years old. FOX 35's Esther Bower spoke with Jamie Barnett, the mother of Ashley Barnett, who died on a Carnival Cruise in 2006 and who started the International Cruise Victims' Organization to break down the details of how the FBI investigates cruise ship deaths, where her own daughter's case is still open with little to no official details being released nearly 20 years later.

Friends and classmates are mourning the loss of 18-year-old Anna Keppner of Titusville, who died over the weekend while on the Carnival Horizon cruise ship. Keppner’s best friend, Genevieve Guerrero, described her as “the definition of joyful, bubbly, and always looking out for others.” The two met in eighth grade and quickly became inseparable.

A Caribbean cruise turned into a nightmare after a teenager from Titusville died while on board the Carnival Horizon. Now the FBI is getting involved. The victim has been identified as 18-year-old Anna Kepner.

A community is mourning the loss of Anna Kepner, a senior from Temple Christian School, who was identified as the passenger who died on a Carnival cruise ship from Miami to the Caribbean. Fox 35's Esther Bower joins Garrett Wymer live to break down the latest on the tragic case.