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Today on True Crime Today, the full Eric Faddis interview. We move through the David Anthony Burke case in two parts, first the people around him and who is still legally exposed, then the felony complaint and the defense strategy already forming, then pivot to federal court in Florida for the Anna Kepner not guilty plea and what the defense moves are signaling.
If you only listen to one legal breakdown on either case this week, make it this one.
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Years after a jury convicted Lucy Letby of murdering seven babies, some of those children's death certificates still officially list the cause of death as natural or unknown. The Cheshire Coroner's Court has opened formal inquests into five of the deaths. Full hearings are provisionally scheduled for September 2026, pending the outcome of the Thirlwall Inquiry. The families are still fighting for a piece of paper that reflects what a jury already decided happened to their children.
That single fact tells you everything about the pace and complexity of the legal reckoning surrounding this case. The Thirlwall Inquiry has concluded its evidence phase and is preparing a final report for publication after Easter 2026. Three former senior hospital leaders were arrested in June 2025 on suspicion of gross negligence manslaughter. The Criminal Cases Review Commission is examining whether Letby's convictions are safe. And the inquiry itself is built on a structural paradox: it assumes Letby is guilty while another legal body is actively investigating whether she should have been convicted.
The families are caught between a legal system that has rendered its verdict and a scientific community that increasingly questions the evidence behind it. Some want the focus on institutional accountability. Others want to know whether the truth they have been given is the complete one.
This is the final episode of our five-part series. The system that failed. The families that were failed. And the question of whether the truth has finally been told, or whether the most important chapter is still being written.
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On today's True Crime Today, Eric Faddis walks us through the federal case against Anna Kepner's stepbrother. The not guilty plea. The strategic decisions already made by the defense. The cellphone data reportedly pulled from Anna's father. The seven-day trial estimate that raises its own questions.
We cover the plea procedure, the defense's own request for the adult transfer, the judge-selection strategy, the discovery handover, and what a working trial attorney sees when he reads all of those moves together. If you have been following this one, Eric's read on where it is heading is the one to hear.
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The person accused of killing Anna Kepner aboard a Carnival cruise ship just pleaded not guilty in federal court — and he didn’t even show up to say it. His attorney filed a one-page document while the sixteen-year-old stayed home, wearing a GPS ankle monitor, living with a relative, and recently cleared to work at his biological father’s landscaping business. 
That’s the reality of this case right now.Anna Kepner was eighteen years old. She was found dead under a bed aboard the Carnival Horizon — wrapped in a blanket, concealed beneath life jackets — during what was supposed to be a family bonding cruise. 
The medical examiner ruled it a homicide by mechanical asphyxiation. Bruising on her neck was consistent with an arm held across it. Her fourteen-year-old brother reportedly heard yelling and violent sounds from the locked cabin the night before her body was found. 
Ship surveillance reportedly shows one person entering and exiting that stateroom.The accused — Anna’s stepbrother, Timothy Hudson — faces first-degree murder and aggravated sexual abuse charges in federal court. He requested adult prosecution himself. Prosecutors have turned over the full evidence file, including the autopsy, body cam footage, and a cellphone data extraction from a phone identified only as “C.K.” And they estimate this trial would take seven days.
Meanwhile, the defense is fighting to keep him free and asking for the same judge who released him in February to decide the detention question again. Anna’s father is calling for an orange jumpsuit. The ex-boyfriend’s family says they tried to warn people about this kid before the cruise. And the family that was supposed to come together on that ship has fractured in every direction.
The not guilty plea is in. The evidence is exchanged. The detention fight is pending. And accountability is still just a word on a court docket.
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Warren Jeffs will die behind bars. The FLDS he built is hemorrhaging members. Short Creek—the community he sealed off from the world—now has soccer games, bars, and a winery. But the story is not over. From a Texas prison cell, Jeffs continues issuing edicts. A hardened core of followers—scattered across multiple states—still considers him their prophet. Reports suggest plural marriage may be restarting in hidden locations.
The final episode of the Hidden Killers five-part FLDS series covers the financial reckoning: a $152 million judgment, a $12 million food stamp fraud case, and Elissa Wall’s years-long pursuit of hidden assets through shell companies. We cover the Bateman connection—how the FLDS vacuum produced another self-declared prophet who was arrested on federal charges and died in custody. And we cover the people rebuilding—the Lost Boys reclaiming the community that expelled them, the survivors who testified, and the organizations providing resources to those still trying to leave.
For the true crime community, this is the question that refuses to close: the man is in prison, the money is hidden, the community is scattered, and the faithful are still waiting for their prophet to come home. Is it over? The evidence says not yet.
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