April 15, 2026

STEPBROTHER INDICTED IN ANNA KEPNER CRUISE SHIP MURDER — NOW CHARGED AS ADULT

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Plus: A Real Housewife caught shoplifting — for six months. And a cold case from Boca Raton that has never let go.

A federal grand jury has indicted Anna Kepner's sixteen-year-old stepbrother as an adult on charges of first-degree murder and aggravated sexual abuse — five months after the Florida cheerleader was found dead beneath a bed on a Carnival cruise ship. We've followed this case since the beginning. Today, the indictment. Also: Real Housewives of Pretoria star Melany Viljoen and her husband were arrested in Boca Raton after allegedly stealing over five thousand dollars in groceries from a Publix — for six months. And a cold case from that same city: a mother and daughter executed in a mall parking lot in 2007. Still unsolved.

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Kalaroga Shark Media. Good morning, I'm Garrett Fisher. It's Wednesday,

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April fifteenth, twenty twenty six. This is Daily Crime and Justice.

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We have been following Anna Kepner's case since November, since

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the morning her body was found concealed under a bed

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in a Carnival cruise ship cabin, since her grandmother said

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good night to her in the casino, said see you

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in the morning, and then never saw her again. Yesterday,

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a federal grand jury indicted Anna's sixteen year old stepbrother

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as an adult on charges of first degree murder and

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aggravated sexual abuse. His name is Timothy Hudson. He is

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sixteen years old. He is now facing the possibility of

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life in federal prison. This case has moved slowly, carefully,

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and at times agonizingly. Today it moved. We're going to

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walk through everything also this morning. A story that lives

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in a very different register, but I want to give

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it its full treatment. Melanie Villion, star of the Real

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Housewives of Pretoria, Range Rover driver, a parent woman of means,

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was arrested in Boca Ratone last month along with her

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husband after allegedly stealing more than five thousand dollars worth

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of groceries from a public supermarket over the course of

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six months, ticket switching, failed self checkouts, distracting employees. And

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I want to tell you the reason she gave investigators,

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because it matters. And then we're closing with a case

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from that same city, Boca Raton, that goes back to

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two thousand and seven. Involves a mother and a seven

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year old daughter executed in a mall parking lot and

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has never been solved. A retired FBI agent is speaking out.

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He has things to say. It's Wednesday. Let's get into it.

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This is heavy material. Let me take you back to

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November seventh, twenty twenty five. Annah Kepner was eighteen years old,

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a high school senior from Titusville, Florida, a cheerleader, a

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young woman who wanted to cheer at the University of Georgia,

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who was planning to join the United States Navy, who

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had told people she wanted to become a K nine

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police officer. She had a whole life in front of her,

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full of very specific plans and very specific dreams. She

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was on a family vacation, a carnival cruise the Horizon,

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sailing out of Miami through the Western Caribbean. And the

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word family here requires some unpacking, because this was a

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blended family in its earliest, most fragile stage. Anna's father,

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Chris Kepner, had married a woman named Chantell Hudson in

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December twenty twenty four, eleven months before this cruise. This

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was a new family, new step parents, new step siblings,

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new dynamics, new sleeping arrangements. On a ship in the Caribbean,

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Anna and her sixteen year old stepbrother, Chantell's son, Timothy Hudson,

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we were sharing a cabin along with Anna's fourteen year

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old biological brother. The parents were across the hall. Anna's

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grandparents were one floor up. The night of November sixth,

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Anna left a family dinner early. She said her braces

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were bothering her. She went back to the cabin. The

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next morning, a room attendant found her. Her body was

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hidden beneath the bed, wrapped in a blanket covered with

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life jackets. Someone had concealed her there. The Miami Dade

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Medical Examiner ruled the cause of death mechanical asphyxiation. The

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manner of death homicide. Something or someone had cut off

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Anna Kepner's airway until she died. She was eighteen years old.

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In the weeks and months that followed, the case moved

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through the courts in ways that were deliberately opaque. Proceedings

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were sealed. The FBI, which has jurisdiction over crimes committed

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in international waters, would not comment, but details leaked out

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through separate custody battle that had nothing to do with Anna.

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Chantal Hudson and her ex husband, Thomas Hudson were fighting

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over their children, and in those filings, in November twenty

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twenty five, Chantell herself named her son as a suspect

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in Anna's death. Think about what that means. Anna's stepmother,

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the woman who had just months ago joined the Kepner family,

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She identified her own son as the person investigators were

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looking at, and then she told a family court that

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he was no longer welcome in her home, the home

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she shares with Anna's father, Chris Kepner. Timothy Hudson left

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the family home. He was placed with a maternal uncle.

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His father, Thomas Hudson, filed in court that he supported

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his son. The two families, the Kepner's and the Hudson's,

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split down a fracture line that runs right through the

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middle of this case, there were details that came out

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about the night in question. Timothy's mother said he had

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not taken his insomnia medication for two nights running, including

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the night before Anna was found. She said he told

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her over a two minute phone call from a medical

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facility that he couldn't remember anything, kept repeating it, just

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couldn't remember. Law enforcement sources told CBS News they believed

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Anna had been strangled during an altercation and that the

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suspect may have been using alcohol. Those are law enforcement sources,

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not proven, not charged, but the direction of the investigation

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was clear. February two, twenty twenty six, federal prosecutors charged

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Timothy Hudson as a juvenile. The case was sealed. He

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appeared in federal court in Miami on February sixth, wearing

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a camouflage hoodie, hat pulled low, face covered. He walked

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in with his attorney. The media watched from outside, and

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the case went back under seal. Then Monday, April thirteenth,

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twenty twenty six, yesterday, a federal grand jury returned an indictment.

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The Justice Department announced it publicly. Timothy Hudson, sixteen years old,

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of Titusville, Florida, has been indicted as an adult on

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two federal counts, first degree murder and aggravated sexual abuse.

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Both counts carry a maximum sentence of life in federal prison.

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The indictment, in the words of prosecutors, is based on

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evidence that Timothy Hudson sexually assaulted and intentionally killed Anna

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Kepner while the ship was sailing in international waters. Those

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are the government's words evidence they say they will present

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in court. Immediately after the indictment was announced, federal prosecutors

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filed a motion to revoke Timothy Hudson's release conditions. Right now,

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he is living with a guardian, not his parents. Prosecutors

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say that's not enough. They wrote in their filing that

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the evidence demonstrated, and I'm going to read this carefully,

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that he committed crimes involving the most serious, egregious, and

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violative acts one person can inflict upon another, that he

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acted without any warning against a victim he had been

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raised to view as a sibling. They are asking a

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judge to detain him. Anna's father, Chris Kepner, told NBC

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News justice needs to be served. Look, this is a

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sixteen year old, a minor charged as an adult in

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a federal proceeding for the murder and sexual abuse of

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his stepsister. There is nothing easy about any dimension of

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this case. The legal and moral complexity is real. But

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so is Anna Kepner. So is what she went through

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in that cabin. So is the fact that she left

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a dinner early saying her brace is hurt and never

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came back. Her grandmother said good night to her, mem

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I love you guys, I'll see you later. She was

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a senior in high school. She wanted to cheer at Georgia.

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She wanted to join the navy. She wanted to work

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with K nine dogs. She was eighteen years old. We

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will continue to follow this case as it moves toward trial.

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No new court dates have been set. Welcome back. The

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Real Housewives franchise has given us a lot over the years.

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Overturned tables, dramatic confessionals, women throwing things in slow motion.

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But I have to say this particular development is new territory,

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even for them. Milani Ville Joan is forty years old.

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She was a cast member on the Real Housewives of Pretoria,

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a South African iteration of the franchise that premiered in

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twenty twenty two and ended after one season. She owns

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a nail brand. She ran a podcast. Her husband, Petros

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vill Joan fifty seven, describes himself as a celebrity lawyer.

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They drive a black Range Rover. On March tenth of

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this year, police in Boca Ratan arrested them both. The

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charge aggravated grand theft, a second degree FELLA in Florida,

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which carries a maximum sentence of up to fifteen years

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in prison. Here is what they are accused of. Beginning

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in August twenty twenty five, and the same month they

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arrived in the United States after relocating from South Africa,

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the Villions allegedly began stealing from a public supermarket. They

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kept doing it for six months. An investigation opened in

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late February when Loss Prevention started reviewing the footage. Public's

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officials and police went back and examined fifty two transactions.

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They found three hundred and ninety two stolen items. The

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total five thousand, three hundred and two dollars and seventeen cents.

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The methodology, according to the arrest affidavit, ticket switching, scanning

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cheaper items as seasoning packets to avoid paying full price.

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Failing to scan items at self checkout at all, and

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according to investigators, Petris allegedly talked up store employees while

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his wife worked the register, distracting staff. They also say

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he pushed carts past the final point of sale without

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paying on multiple occasions. Police identified them through surveillance footage

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and license plate records the range Rover. On March tenth,

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officers pulled Petrus over during a traffic stop, placed him

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in shackles behind the range Rover. Bodycam footage obtained by

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NBC six shows him asking officers, you're arresting me, Yes, Petrus,

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they are arresting you. Meanwhile, a separate team went to

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the apartment. Melanie answered the door in a white robe

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no shoes. She was directed to turn around and place

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her hands behind her back. She asked what was happening.

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The officer said they would explain in a second. She

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asked if she could make a call. No. Eventually, she

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was escorted to a police cruiser in a different outfit

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and placed in the back. In a post miranda interview,

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Melanie told investigators she acted alone. Petrice denied any involve

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Those two stories, needless to say, do not match the

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surveillance footage that shows them working the store together for

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six months. After their arrest, both Melanie and Petris were

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transferred into ice custody. They are South African nationals who

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relocated to the US last summer. They were officially charged

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on April eighth. Now here's the part I want to

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sit with for a moment. Melanie told investigators she was

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in survival mode. She said she had not worked since

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moving to the United States. She told media in South

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Africa that she left her home country because she felt

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targeted that black South Africans were coming to her businesses,

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intimidating her staff, intimidating her that it got scary that

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she couldn't wait to leave. I'm not going to litigate

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her experience in South Africa. I don't know what she

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went through, but I will say this. She drove a

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Range Rover, she had a nail brand, a podcast, a

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self identified celebrity lawyer, and the answer to financial hardship

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in Boca Raton was apparently to walk into a Publix

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with a plan and steal three hundred and ninety two

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items across fifty two trips. That's not desperation, that's a

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system that's not a mistake. That's a choice, a choice

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made many, many times with a method. Over six months,

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the range Rover was in the parking lot every time.

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Melanie briefly archived her Instagram after the arrests. It's back

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up now, of course it is. We're going to stay

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in Boca for our final story. This one goes back

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nineteen years and I want to tell it to you

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the way a retired FBI agent just told it to

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the Daily Mail, slowly, with the weight of someone who

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has spent two decades not being able to let it go.

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In two thousand and seven, someone turned the Town Center

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Mall in bo Caratan into a hunting ground. That is

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not my characterization. That is the characterization of former FBI

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agent John McVeigh, who worked the case before his retirement.

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He uses the word deliberately. Three incidents one year, all

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connected to the same mall exit, all targeting women, two

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of them fatal. March twenty third, two thousand and seven,

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Randy Gorenberg, fifty two years old, stopped at the mall

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to pick up a John Legend. CD surveillance showed her

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walking back to her Mercedes SUV around one to twelve

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in the afternoon. Within forty minutes, she had been shot

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in the face and her body dumped from the car

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in West Delray Beach. The vehicle was found abandoned behind

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a nearby home depot. She was the first. August seventh,

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two thousand and seven, a woman known only as Jane Doe.

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She has never been publicly identified, left Sacks Fifth Avenue

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with her two year old son. She buckled him into

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the backseat, loaded her packages in to the trunk, walked

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around to the driver's door, and opened it. A man

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was already sitting next to her son, holding a gun.

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He had moved fast enough to be inside her car

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in the seconds it took her to walk from the

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trunk to the front door. He demanded she drive to

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an ATM and withdraw five hundred dollars. She told him

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she didn't have that much. He forced her to take

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what she had, about two hundred dollars, and then drove

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her around, handcuffed, her eyes covered with blacked out swim goggles,

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her son crying in the back seat. At one point,

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according to McVeigh, the man asked if the child wanted

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some water. A man with a gun asking about the

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child's water. He eventually released them both. Before he left,

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he told Jane, do I have your driver's license? I

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know where you live. If you call the police, tell

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them I'm a short, fat black man. Then he walked away.

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She freed herself, ran to the sacks val at stand

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and called police. A sketch was released, and then McVeigh

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says the investigation went quiet. December two thousand and seven,

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Nancy Bochicio, forty seven years old. Her daughter Joey, was

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with her. She had been picked up early from school

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for a doctor's appointment, and the two had gone to

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the mall afterward. They were captured on surveillance footage leaving

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through the same exit as the previous victims. They were

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the last people to be seen walking out. Nancy never

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showed up for a planned dinner that night. Shortly before midnight,

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a mall security guard noticed a car idling alone in

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the merchandise pickup zone outside sears. Inside, Nancy and her

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daughter both shot once in the head, both bound with

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duct tape, plastic ties, handcuffs and goggles. Both dead. They

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had been there for nearly nine hours before being found.

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Witnesses interviewed by police said they had seen two figures

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in the back seat throughout the day, but assumed they

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were sleeping after Christmas shopping. Nobody was paying at time

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attention to them. Nobody stopped, nobody knocked on the window.

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They were sitting twenty feet from people doing holiday shopping

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and no one stopped. McVeigh told The Daily Mail what

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he believes happened. He thinks Nancy withdrew five hundred dollars

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from an ATM. Surveillance confirmed she made the transaction and

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then was brought back to the mall. He believed she

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was placed in the back seat. He believed she may

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have broken her handcuffs at some point trying to get

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her daughter out. He believes the man reached back and

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shot them both and then walked away in a busy

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mall parking lot in the middle of the afternoon, and

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nobody saw him. The DNA came back empty. The forensics

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gave investigators one unidentified item, a manufactured object found in

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the car, and they spent two and a half years

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tracking down every single one of the more than three

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hundred sold They knocked on doors, they interviewed people. They

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could not identify a buyer. In recent years, a documentary

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series suggested that Swedish serial killer Peter Mangs, who was

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later convicted of murders in Sweden, might have been in

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Florida and connected to these crimes. McVeigh was not polite

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about this theory. He told The Daily Mail it was,

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in his words, bulls. He said the show was full

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of assumption and innuendo, that nothing in it was accurate,

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that he was appalled it was allowed to air his

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own theory, A stranger, someone driven by a desire for

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control over women, or by something darker. He says, the

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progression of the crimes tells the story. Randy Gorenberg resisted,

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maybe got what the man wanted and ended up dead.

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Jane Doe didn't resist, She cooperated, She survived. Then came

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a mother with a young child older than a toddler,

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still controllable, and that ended in two murders in a

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parking lot. All three cases are still open, no charges,

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no arrests, no suspect. McVeigh told The Daily Mail it's

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the one case in my career I never solved, and

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it's upsetting because I still see images of them. The

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dates are still profound to me. Nancy Bocchicio was forty

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seven years old. Her daughter Joey, was a child. They

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went to the mall, They walked out through a door.

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They should have driven home. The case is still open.

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The killer is by all available evidence still out there.

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If you have any information about the two thousand and

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seven crimes at Town Center Mall in Boca Raton, contact

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the Boca Raton Police Department. That's Daily Crime and Justice

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for Wednesday, April fifteenth, twenty twenty six. Anna Kepner's stepbrother

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has been indicted as an adult on federal charges of

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first degree murder and aggravated sexual abuse. She was eighteen

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years old. She wanted to cheer at Georgia, join the Navy,

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work with dogs. She left a family dinner early and

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never came back. Timothy Hudson faces the possibility of life

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in prison. The case moves forward. A real housewife in

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her husban were arrested for stealing over five thousand dollars

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in groceries from a publix over six months. She said

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she was in survival mode. They drove a range drover

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and in Boca Raton, a mother and her daughter have

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been dead for nineteen years. No one has been charged.

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A retired FBI agent is still haunted by it. Someone

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should have said something, someone should have knocked on that window.

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Do better. This episode of Daily Crime and Justice is

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produced by Calaroga Shark Media Research and scripting, assisted by

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artificial intelligence tools. All information is drawn from publicly available sources,

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including court filings, law enforcement statements, and established news organizations.

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Nothing in this program constitutes legal advice. Alleged conduct is

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unproven unless otherwise stated. For information about the two thousand

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and seven Boca Raton mal homicides, contact the Boca Raton

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Police Department,