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In the cruise ship murder case against Timothy Hudson, prosecutors say video shows him walking across the ship to throw his stepsister Anna Kepner's phone in a trash can. They say her phone went dead at 8:14 and never came back on.

Prosecutors also cite surveillance footage and DNA. Hudson's lawyers call the evidence circumstantial.

Hudson was 16 at the time of Anna's death in November 2025, and she was 18. He's pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder in federal court, where he's being prosecuted as an adult.

If he doesn't enter a plea by the judge's hard deadline of January 15, 2027, his trial opens January 25. Until one pending issue gets cleared up, his lawyers say, they can't counsel him either way. They called their own filing "purposefully vague."

Robin Dreeke once led the FBI's Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program. I ask him and trial attorney Bob Motta what a defense actually looks like against the evidence prosecutors describe.

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