Kepner Stepbrother Locked Up, Teen Kills Family With Adult Boyfriend & Alabama CSAM Bunker

**Annie Elise** (0:02)
Hey, true crime besties, welcome back to an all new episode of Serialously.
Hello, hello, hello, and welcome back to an all new episode of SERIALously with me, your host, Annie Elise, also your true crime bestie, and today's Thursday, which means Headline Highlights. And we have a lot to talk about today, not only new cases, but a very happy update that I am excited to share with you. You know the drill though, before we get into everything, I have to let you know what we do here. Mondays are our deep dives where we go into one singular case, go down the rabbit hole, explain everything, the thoughts, the theories, the facts, the speculation. And this week, in case you missed it, we did a mega deep dive into the Reagan Hancock and Taylor Parker case. Now, if those names aren't familiar, let me just say, you probably saw the documentary Maternal Instinct on your Netflix feed this weekend. Everybody's been talking about it on social media as well. But there was so much more that was not able to be included, which we've talked about that before, right? In 90 minutes, how can you possibly include everything? So I put out a two and a half hour episode that included not only all the details, but a lot of the footage, the interviews, the interrogation, things that we were able to source through a workaround internally that Netflix wasn't able to get, other creators haven't been able to get. And so if you want the full comprehensive deep dive like you know we like to do, go listen to it now.
So let's get into Headline Highlights. And I'm really, really excited because today's guest is super special to me. She is royal, she's an heiress, and her name is Amy Colhead.

**Amy O'Brien** (2:01)
Wow.
If only those things were true. But as you were going, I'm like, who do we have on today?

**Annie Elise** (2:07)
No, I was trying to figure out the tea up and like I'm running out of things since it's happening every week. But I need to like start jotting down ideas, which if any of you guys have ideas.

**Amy O'Brien** (2:15)
I would like your heartfelt sentiments towards me.

**Annie Elise** (2:18)
I think you're an heiress. I think you're royal.

**Amy O'Brien** (2:20)
Kind, loving.

**Annie Elise** (2:22)
Yeah, all those things.

**Amy O'Brien** (2:24)
Younger.

**Annie Elise** (2:24)
Okay, not that, obviously not that. So please welcome to the show my older sister, Amy O'Brien.

**Amy O'Brien** (2:32)
And wiser. At times.

**Annie Elise** (2:34)
At times. Now really quickly before we get into the case, I do want to mention this. If you had a little bit of FOMO from CrimeCon, because we had exclusive merch there, designs that we only sold there, fear not, because we have officially launched all of that exclusive merch that you can grab right now. However, quantities are very, very limited, so it will probably go incredibly quickly. But we have the exclusive designs that we only had there. We have the very popular and in-demand sweatshirt that says Heller in embroidery. Also the Not a Detective, Just Nosy, Tumblr. So many new, cute, exclusive, brand new designs. So go check that out. Quantities are limited. Go to annieelise.com and grab them now. So I want to start with this update, which I think is going to make you incredibly happy.

**Amy O'Brien** (3:20)
It is.

**Annie Elise** (3:21)
As well as so many of you listeners, because we have a very significant update in the case of Anna Kempner. Now, you know this whole story. We have been following it very closely for months now.
Actually, almost, it will be, will it be a year this fall?

**Amy O'Brien** (3:35)
It's been a long time.

**Annie Elise** (3:36)
Wow.
So if you are forgetting, Anna Kempner was an 18-year-old girl who unfortunately was not only sexually assaulted by her 16-year-old stepbrother, but also murdered while on a family cruise. And then he stuffed her body under the bed, covered her with life jackets, and pretended as though nothing happened.
So early on, it was apparent that he was the one who did this, allegedly, I'll say, but he wasn't kept in custody and nobody understood why. And one of the big arguments, I guess, that I've had, and I know you have felt this as well, is that he clearly is a danger to society. She had outcry to her boyfriend before. He had seen things on FaceTime where he had tried to creep into her room. And so clearly, this guy is a danger to society being out there. He's a sexual predator. He's a deviant. Why is he not being held in custody?