Strangled on cruise ship: Mother learns of Anna’s death via Google | News

Miami (USA) – It was supposed to be a harmonious journey for the patchwork family, but ended in the tragedy of death. 18-year-old student Anna Kepner was strangled during a Caribbean cruise – allegedly by her half-brother (†16). Now Anna’s mother is making serious accusations: she learned the bad news of her daughter’s death via Google.

Heather Wright told the US news channel that no one spoke to her immediately after the grisly discovery of Anna’s body NewsNation. He only learned from a friend that Anna might be there cruise dead. He desperately tried to contact his daughter by phone. When that didn’t work, he searched online. “I Googled, ‘18-year-old dies on cruise ship,’ and my daughter’s face came up everywhere,” Wright said.

Anna’s mother, Heather Wright, said she learned of her daughter’s death through an online search

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Quarrels in the family

According to consistent US reports, Heather Wright, who lives more than a thousand kilometers from her daughter in Oklahoma, has not seen Anna for several years. She accused her ex-husband of not conveying the shocking news of her daughter’s death directly to her. “My ex-husband has not tried to contact me at all,” she said. There had always been arguments between them in the past.

Anna’s body was hidden under a life jacket

Anna, who lives in Titusville, Florida (United States of America) lived, leaving on a six-day Caribbean cruise on “Carnival Horizon” in November with her father, stepmother and three half-siblings. On November 8, a crew member found the high school student dead in his cabin – under the bed, wrapped in a blanket and hidden under a life jacket.

On November 8, the student was found dead in his cabin. “Carnival Horizon” then immediately returned to Miami harbor

On November 8, the student was found dead in his cabin. “Carnival Horizon” then immediately returned to Miami harbor

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During the autopsy of the body, forensic experts are said to have found two bruises on Anna’s neck – traces of one bruise. fatal grip. Several US media reported that the F.B.I His 16-year-old half-brother is being investigated as a possible perpetrator. Anna’s ex-boyfriend told TV station “Inside Edition” that the young woman was very afraid of her half-brother. She felt harassed by him and therefore often spent evenings with his friends.