340: Family of Anna Kepner Speaks Out as Stepbrother Is Named Suspect in Cruise Death
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What updates are there on Melody Buzzard's case?
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Hello, hello, hello, and welcome back to an all new episode of Serialistly with me, your host, Annie Elise. And this last week has been honestly like Mr. Toad's wild ride. There has been so much going on. Not even just so many new cases, which is like disturbing and unsettling in and of itself, but a lot of updates to cases that either happened a long time ago and we're finally getting updates or like these crazy breaking news updates in cases that I know so many of us have been following. So I'm gonna, as normally, as normally, I don't think that's a word, as usual, I'm going to start with the updates to some cases that we've already been discussing together, and then we're gonna get into the new cases.
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Who is D4vd and what are the latest developments in Celeste Hernandez's case?
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And so all of this is going to go through Monday. So go now, AnnieElise.com for the merch or Patreon.com slash AnnieElise to join Patreon. Now let's talk about these updates. First, I want to start with Melody Buzzard. And I can just feel that a deep dive is going to be on the horizon here once more information comes out about her mom. Because there has been so much back and forth with this for weeks now. But... If you remember, Melody is the girl who went missing.
What happened to Anna Kepner on the Carnival cruise?
And I should say went missing, or I say went missing, but more like she was never reported as missing. And then when the school came and did the wellness check, her mom was refusing to cooperate. She wouldn't share where Melody was. They had just gone on that, like, cross-country road trip together. And things just weren't adding up. Then Melody's mom, Ashley, ended up being arrested for false imprisonment charges relating to somebody else. And so I think that kind of gave everybody a little bit of a sigh of relief. Like, she's been arrested. Now we'll figure out what happened to Melody. She's obviously going to talk. We're going to learn more. This is just something to formally get her locked up. That, unfortunately, was not the case.
So like I said, on November 7th, she had been arrested on false imprisonment charges, but completely unrelated to the disappearance of her daughter, Melody. But according to People magazine, the felony charge was dropped on Thursday, November 20th.
What details are emerging about Anna's stepbrother as a suspect?
This was after an audio recording captured by Ashley was played in court, and it seemingly disproved the claims of false imprisonment. In the audio, Ashley opened the door and allowed this person to leave her home. There was also no mention of a specific location in the audio, so we don't know what the details were of that. Again, I think that maybe – I don't know the details of that, actually, so I don't want to speak on that. But I think that the thought and hope in arresting her and holding her on those charges was that she would fold and share what happened to her daughter, but she still hasn't.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What updates are there on Melody Buzzard's case?
0:00–1:47
2
Who is D4vd and what are the latest developments in Celeste Hernandez's case?
1:47–3:01
3
What happened to Anna Kepner on the Carnival cruise?
3:01–3:56
4
What details are emerging about Anna's stepbrother as a suspect?
3:56–5:36
5
What led to Morgan Geyser's recent disappearance from her group home?
5:36–6:55
6
What are the circumstances surrounding Ana Juarez's shooting in Kansas City?
6:55–8:40
7
How are investigators piecing together the timeline of Ana Juarez's death?
8:40–10:32
8
What are the implications of the cases discussed for future investigations?
10:32–34:09
Speakers
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